"On a Turquoise Cloud" -- Candice Hoyes Sings + Talks Duke Ellington

'Jazz singer Candice Hoyes speaks about and performs beautiful genre-bending works by Duke Ellington from her album On a Turquoise Cloud. Many of the intricate compositions on the recording, written specifically for classically-trained singers, were overshadowed by Ellington's more mainstream melodies. Hoyes spent months researching the rarer compositions, including time at the Duke Ellington Collection of the Smithsonian’s Archives Center in Washington, D.C. The album is "a labor of love" that sheds well-deserved light on lesser-known material.' -- +Talks at Google