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Ellington loved the blues. He found a way to use the blues feeling and/or structure in virtually everything he wrote. Naturally, this had a profound effect on his disciple, Billy Strayhorn, who uses many of

Originally released on the Count Basie Orchestra's 1962 album Easin' It, Misunderstood Blues is a lesser-known gem from the pen of Frank Foster. Its slow, grinding tempo and pleading melody do an

W.C. Handy's Saint Louis Blues had already entered the pantheon of classic blues melodies when Gil Evans wrote this arrangement in 1958. The album that it appeared on, "New Bottle, Old Wine," was a