https://youtu.be/G3nL5wzpZd4 Gunnar Kuehl, bass and Nick Muzik, piano, perform this joint composition of Duke Ellington and bassist Jimmy Blanton, who, though he died at age 23, created the modern jazz bass. Ellington recorded several duets with Blanton, including this one and “Plucked Again”, shortly before Blanton’s death from tuberculosis. Blanton was near exact contemporary of…
