Love You Madly + A Concert Of Sacred Music At Grace Cathedral (1965)

""Love You Madly" is a glowing profile of Duke on a 1965 tour. Made by jazz-crit Ralph Gleason, it avoids the talking head clichés and captures the master at times of rest and reflection. Napping backstage with a hot towel on his face, asking Ralph if he should snore in tune, chatting idly in the car, and joking in a hotel room, it offers a warm and generous sketch of a man burnishing his legend. "A Concert of Sacred Music at Grace Cathedral" is glimpsed briefly in "Love You Madly", but is contained in full on the second program. Aside from a brief introduction, it is all performance. Duke's concert was one of many celebrating the completion of Grace Cathedral in the Nob Hill district of San Francisco. It is an attempt to combine the sacred and the profane, hymns and swing, and sometimes the seams show through. The finale, "David Danced Before the Lord," has a tap solo by the 'most super levianthonic, rhythmaturgically syncopated tapstaticianimist' Bunny Briggs." (R. Emmet Sweeney, AllAboutJazz)

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