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From Chart to Reality: The Editorial Role of the Pianist in a Big Band
by Kurt Ellenberger
Note: This article was first published in the Jazz Education Journal in 2005, and was revised for All About Jazz. Preamble This article was written to address an issue that needed clarification, and indeed still needs clarification almost 20 years later, regarding the vagaries inherent in many of the published big band piano charts ...
Art of the Arranger
by David Brown
This week, we continue exploring the art of the arranger with large ensembles and jazz orchestras. Charles Mingus sets Meditations on Integration on a big band, The Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band presents a tone poem with traditional Japanese vocalists, we look at the Fletcher Henderson influence on Sun Ra, plus works by Satoko Fujii Orchestra ...
Ellington Holiday: A Swinging Nutcracker + Dance Dates 1940 & '58
by David Brown
Jazz up December with Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's swinging re-do of The Nutcracker Suite. Then, rev-up for the new year with two historic Ellington Orchestra dance dates: Fargo 1940 & Travis Air Force Base 1958. Put the kids to bed and put on your dancing shoes. Welcome friends and neighbors to The Jazz Continuum. Old, ...
The Treasury Shows Vol. 25
By Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: CD 1: Take The A Train; Boo-Dah; What More Can I Say; Frustration; Basin Street Blues; Duet; Ballin’ The Blues; Satin Doll; Moon Mist; You’ll Never Know; Lady Be Good; Tonight I Shall Sleep; Nevada; Subtle Slough; I Don’t Know What Kind Of Blues I Got; Don’t Get Around Much Anymore; Moon Mist.
CD 2: At’s In There; Design For Jivin’; Jump For Joy; Solid Old Man; Sentimental Lady; Take The A Train; Now I Know; Perdido; Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me; Suddenly It Jumped; Indiana; How Blue The Night; Stomp, Look And Listen; Jumpin’ Frog Jump; Perdido; Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me; Blue Skies.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows Vol. 25
by Chris Mosey
Storyville Records, based in Copenhagen, have now completed the Herculean task of re-releasing all the Duke Ellington Treasury Show albums on CD. These are recordings of broadcasts made for the US Treasury Department from 1945 to 1953, to promote the sale of war bonds, often with plugs by Ellington himself, a staunch patriot. Volume 25 is ...
The Treasury Shows, Vol. 24
By Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: CD1: Take The A Train; Harlem Air Shaft; Creole Love Call; C Jam Blues; Is It A Sin?; Just A-Settin’ And A-Rockin’; Moonlight Fiesta; The Hawk Talks; Satin Doll; Take The A Train; Blue Jean Beguine; Boo Dah; Cocktails For Two; Nothin’ Nothin’ Baby; Jump For Joy; Perdido; Blue Moon; Satin Doll; Take The A Train; Concerto For Cootie; Johnny Come Lately; My Heart Tells Me; Blue Skies; Things Ain’t What They Used To Be.
CD2: Take The A Train; Caravan; I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart; Bond Promo; The Hawk Talks; Come On Home; Flamingo; Bond Promo; Jump For Joy; Satin Doll; Take The A Train; Take The A Train; The Tattooed Bride; Bond Promo; Nothin’ Nothin’ Baby; Rock Skippin’ At The Blue Note; Just Squeeze Me; Ting-A-Ling; Satin Doll.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol. 24
by Chris Mosey
The early 1950s were a worrying time for Duke Ellington. Musical tastes were changing and big bands were going out of business. Ellington was nervous. I like to keep a band so I can write and hear the music next day," he said, The only way you can do that is to pay the band and ...
Rotterdam 1969
By Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Take The A Train (theme) and C Jam Blues; Kinda Dukish and Rockin’ In
Rhythm; Take The A Train (full version); Up Jump; La Plus Belle
Africaine; Come Off The Veldt; El Gato (The Cat); Black
Butterfly; Things Ain’t What They Used To Be; Don’t Get Around Much Anymore;
Medley 1 – Caravan, Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady; Medley 2 – Making That
Scene, It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing, Be Cool And Groovy For
Me; Satin Doll; R.T.M; In Triplicate into Satin Doll.
Duke Ellington's Treasury Shows - Vol. 21
By Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: CD1: Take The A Train; Caravan; Sono; Laughin’ On The Outside; The Blues; Teardrops In The Rain; I’m Just A Lucky So And So; Metronome All Out; Just A-Sittin’ And A-Rockin’; One O’Clock Jump; Things Ain’t What They Used To Be; Ko-Ko.
CD2: Take The A Train; Jump For Joy; A Gathering In A Clearing; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Suddenly It Jumped; Medley – Black And Tan Fantasy, In A Sentimental Mood, Mood Indigo, I’m Beginning To See The Light, Sophisticated Lady, Caravan, Solitude, I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart, Don’t Get Around Much Anymore; Passion Flower; Just You, Just Me; You Don’t Love Me No More; Unbooted Character; Cotton Tail; Swing Shifters Swing; Altitude (Main Stem).