BRUNSWICK — The Novel Jazz septet performs at the Frontier Cafe in Brunswick at 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 14, featuring the music of Duke Ellington and his equally iconic musical collaborator, Billy Strayhorn.
Novel Jazz is a Maine-based group, now in its 14th season of concerts around Maine and New England. Its mission is to share the music and stories of these two giants of jazz who wrote some 3,000 compositions over their musical careers.
They’ll perform standard tunes from the Ellington/Strayhorn repertoire, plus newly arranged compositions that they have unearthed in the Ellington archives of the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington D.C., some of which have not been heard in decades.
The band has rearranged these pieces for the septet, dusted them off and given them a 21st Century sound all their own.
Admission is $18 in advance, $20 day of show. For more information, call (207) 725-5222 or visit explorefrontier.com/event/the-novel-jazzseptet. The Frontier Cafe theater is located at 14 Maine St., Mill 3, Fort Andross, in Brunswick.
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