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Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra presents Duke Ellington and Chaos at Newport
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The most famous band in jazz was playing empty rooms in the early 1950s. As jazz fans turned to cutting edge bebop over the old big-band swing, Ellington was forced to pay his band members out of pocket. That all changed at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival and a chaotic night that lives in infamy. Join the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, featuring saxophonist Niall Bakastaad-Legare, as they pay tribute to the remarkable night that revived Duke Ellington’s Big Band, landed him on the cover of TIME Magazine and rocketed him back to super stardom.