Swinging Suites by Edward E. and Edward G.
| Swinging Suites by Edward E. & Edward G. | ||||
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| Released | c. 1961 | |||
| Recorded | June 28–30 and October 10, 1960 | |||
| Studio | Radio Recorders, Los Angeles | |||
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| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Irving Townsend | |||
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Swinging Suites by Edward E. & Edward G. (also known as Peer Gynt Suite/Suite Thursday) is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for the Columbia label in 1960 featuring a jazz interpretation of Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg and Ellington's tribute to John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday, co-written by Billy Strayhorn. The album was rereleased on CD as Three Suites along with Ellington's reworking of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker in 1990.