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Far East Suite
Label: RCA Victor
Released: 1967
Track listing: 1. Tourist Point of View (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 5:17
2. Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 3:17
3. Isfahan (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 4:10
4. Depk (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 2:54
5. Mount Harissa (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 7:45
6. Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 3:05
7. Agra (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 2:40
8. Amad (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 4:31
9. Ad Lib on Nippon (Ellington) - 11:35
10. Tourist Point of View [alternate take/#] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 5:21
11. Amad [alternate take/#] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 4:16
12. Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) [alternate take] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 3:18
13. Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) [alternate take/#] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 3:24
14. Isfahan [alternate take] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 4:20
15. Depk [alternate take/#] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 2:49
16. Mount Harissa [alternate take/#] (Ellington/Strayhorn) - 8:47
Ellington Uptown
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Skin Deep; The Mooche; Take the
Blues In Orbit
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Three J's Blues; Smada; Pie Eye's Blues; Sweet & Pungent; C Jam Blues; In a Mellow Tone; Blues in Blueprint; The Swingers Get the Blues, Too; The Swinger's Jump; Blues In Orbit; Villes Ville is the Place, Man; Track 360; Sentimental Lady; Brown Penny; Pie Eye's Blues (alternate take); Sweet & Pungent (alternate take); The Swinger's Jump (alternate take); Blues In Orbit (alternate take); Track 360 (alternate take).
Duke Ellington: The Centennial Collection & The Jaywalker
by Joel Roberts
Five years after the widely fêted Duke Ellington centennial, record companies are finding--or at least finding ways to remarket--still more treasure from the seemingly endless trove of Ellingtonia. Duke Ellington Centennial Collection Bluebird 2004 Bluebird's latest, a 2-disc CD/DVD/audio/video collection, offers a fine overview of the 1927-1942 Ellington Orchestra, a ...
What is Jazz? Round 2
by Alan Lawrence
What is jazz? Those three words form one of the toughest questions in music. Ask a hundred people and you are likely to get as many different answers. Few things have given me more pleasure in life than listening to the music we call jazz. Even after hearing several thousand recordings in over ...
Duke Ellington: Blues In Orbit
by Rex Butters
Teo Macero's first Ellington recordings resurface in the latest version of the master's popular '58-'59 sessions issued as Blues In Orbit. With band still riding high after the '56 Newport triumph and fresh off the road from Europe, they recorded a jukebox full of 45 single-sized tracks that bear riveting performances by several classic Ellingtonians including ...
Duke Ellington: The Jaywalker
by Norman Weinstein
The Jaywalker collects bits and pieces from the vaults of Ellington recordings the Master made for himself during 1966-1967. It was an impressive edition of the band, with Harry Carney, Cat Anderson, and Lawrence Brown on board, but little in these “unofficial recordings" is as striking as the Ellington output on big labels during the sixties. ...
Duke Ellington: Blues In Orbit
by Jim Santella
Featuring the talented solo voices of alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges, tenor saxophonist Jimmy Hamilton, trumpeter Ray Nance, trombonist Booty Wood, and most other members of this 1958-59 Ellington Orchestra, this reissue swings with the blues. Alternate takes are included, and one of those has never been issued before. “Blues in Blueprint" remains one of ...
Duke Ellington: Ellington Uptown
by AAJ Staff
For the sake of honesty, I must admit that I have never particularly enjoyed music recorded before the '50s, though the occasional interloper has caught my ear and found itself an exception. The problem with the earlier music mostly has to do with technology. First, sound quality is a mixed bag (and often a disaster) by ...
Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington
by AAJ Staff
by John Edward Hasse Da Capo Press, 1995 ISBN 0306806142 Where do you start with Duke Ellington?When Duke launched his career, his contemporaries included James P. Johnson, Fletcher Henderson and a fresh-on-the-scene Louis Armstrong. When he wrapped things up in 1974, the rock / jazz flirtations of Weather Report and ...
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