Festival Session [SEP] record label
Festival Session
Festival Session is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for the Columbia Records label in 1959. The album was rereleased on CD in 2004 with two bonus tracks.
Reception.
The Allmusic review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Duke Ellington was constantly composing new material as well as creating new arrangements of vintage works, as heard on this Columbia LP recorded in 1959... Long one of the classic sleepers awaiting discovery in Duke Ellington's considerable discography... Highly
Mission. From the early 2000s he began working freelance from his home on the west coast of Snowdonia as a session man and record producer with the Welsh language Sain record label.
In 2018, he announced on his web-site that he had been diagnosed with liver cancer and would make his final live performance at the 2018 Cropredy Festival before retirement. He died on 16 September 2018.
Session work and production.
Allcock's session career included more than 200 albums, including Robert Plant, Beverley Craven, Judith