Black, Brown, & Beige (feat. Mahalia Jackson)

Black, Brown and Beige is a 1958 jazz album by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, featuring Mahalia Jackson. The album is a recording of a revised version of Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige suite, inspired by the experience of African-Americans. After a disappointing critical response to its first performance in 1943, Ellington divided the three-part suite into six shorter sections, leaving in "Come Sunday" and "Work Song", and it is this version that is recorded here. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black,_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)