Duke Ellington Orchestra - Blue Skies free for downloading

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra : Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker, Shelton Hemphill, Taft Jordan, Ray Nance, Francis Williams, tp; Lawrence Brown, Wilbur DeParis, tb; Claude Jones, vtb; Jimmy Hamilton, cl, ts; Johnny Hodges, as; Russell Procope, cl, as; Al Sears, ts; Harry Carney, cl, bs; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Oscar Pettiford, b; Sonny Greer, dr. Nov 25, 1946; NYC; Musicraft 484 (flip side: "It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream")

WOW! What a great piece of music!

Heard this as a teenager and was hooked. Traded my trombone for a trumpet that year! That soaring, piercing through pain, ecstatic sound leaves you with no doubt that through all the misery this little life could bring, there is always a blue sky on the horizon.