Stick Season - Polaroids of a Gentleman (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Stick Season tackles in a free and evocative way compositions by the great Duke Ellington, from which emerges, also through an extensive use of improvisation, the incredible richness that these music preserve intact. Thanks to experiments such as that of Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, even here electric instruments and contemporary timbres do not betray the original nuances and dynamics of Ellingtonian music. The concert is configured as a journey, on the ridge that combines tradition and experimentation, through multiform and enchanting places, the moods, created by the great African American composer, of whom in 2024 the 50 ann
Polaroids of a gentleman is the title of the album, released in April 2025 for Barl records records, which sees, in the midst of well-known songs by Ellington also some “rarities”, and is configured as a tribute to one of the most impressive musical giants of the ‘900. Bacchetta, Papetti and Bandello are musicians involved in many projects between contemporanei.

TRACKLIST

1. Stick Season - Black and Tan Fantasy
2. Stick Season - Warm Valley
3. Stick Season - Prelude to a Kiss
4. Stick Season - Come Sunday
5. Stick Season - Satin Doll
6. Stick Season - Mood Indigo
7. Stick Season - Isfahan
8. Stick Season - I Got It Bad
9. Stick Season - In a Sentimental Mood
10. Stick Season - It Don't Mean a Thing
11. Stick Season - Come Sunday (Reprise)



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