"Keeping the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn alive and swinging..." The musicians of "Novel Jazz" have been performing straight-ahead jazz around Maine and New England for over three decades. They draw from the Great American Songbook and specialize in the works of Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. The band members hail from all over Maine…Belfast, Buxton, Chebeague Island, Gardiner, Newcastle, Thomaston and Vassleboro. They perform regularly in mid-coast Maine (the town of Damariscotta, at the Skidompha…