Scorpio

This arrangement of Scorpio was written in 1946 and recently recorded by the Dutch Jazz Orchestra and the Jazz Ambassadors on their tributes to Mary Lou Williams. It is not entirely known why this arrangement wasn't recorded when it was written, but the guess is that it was a bit modern sounding, even for Duke Ellington. Please note: this arrangement is not the movement from "The Zodiac Suite" that Mary Lou Williams had written at the same time. Around the same time she composed "The Zodiac Suite" she took some of the motivic material from the Scorpio movement and arranged it for a big band to feature Jimmy Hamilton and Lawrence Brown of the Ellington band.