Star Crossed Lovers is a widely known ballad written by Duke Ellington, with complex and unusual harmonies so smartly used that this song remains a model of elegance and emotion. This arrangement lets the jazz slowly fade in through ambient pads and noises enhancing a guitar intro. When does jazz start and ambient disappear, or isn’t it true that jazz music imposes his own ambient mood, especially with such a song writer, even if a weird arranger like me starts melting the jazz with even weirder noises ?
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Released December 21st, 2008 as the second track of Ambient Jazz. Arranged and performed by Jazzcomputer.org.