Bloom/funkhouser Duo: Exuberant Ellingtonia at Vineville United Methodist Church

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Vineville Music and the Arts presents the Bloom/Funkhouser Duo in a captivating celebration of Duke Ellington and his esteemed colleagues Billy Strayhorn, Juan Tizol and Mercer Ellington. Jazz writers in the U.S. and abroad have praised the duo's vibrant interpretations of gems like Caravan, Cottontail, Sophisticated Lady, Prelude to a Kiss, Rockin’ in Rhythm, Isfahan, and Jump for Joy. The Bloom/Funkhouser CD, Exuberant Ellingtonia (Americas Musicworks, 2022), was acclaimed by CultureJazz.France: “fourteen of Duke Ellington’s greatest classics played as a piano-flute duo…. It took two master musicians to attempt and succeed in the challenge.” Troy Dostert, writing for AllAboutJazz.com called the album “a thoughtfully curated, well-played collection of time-tested gems from the Ellington songbook which is perfect in highlighting the musicality and emotional potency of the master's corpus” (AllAboutJazz.com).