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The album won the Grammy Award in 1968 for Best Instru- mental Jazz Performance Large Group or Soloist with Large Group. The Penguin Guide to Jazz gives the album a four-star rating, noting that Ellingtons ability to communicate points of contact and conflict between cultures, assimilating the blues to Eastern modes in tracks like Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues), never sounds unduly self-conscious. This remains a postwar peak. Allmusic calls this one of Ellingtons more memorable recordings, describing it as an example of El- lington and Strayhorn in their late prime, and as such, quite essential.
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