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Ellington Uptown
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Skin Deep; The Mooche; Take The "A" Train; A Tone Parallel To Harlem; Perdido; The Controversial
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Festival Session
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Perdidio; Copout Extension; Duael Fuel
Armstrong & Ellington: The Great Summit
by John Ballon
No two musicians defined the first half of the Jazz Century more than Duke Ellington & Louis “Satchmo" Armstrong. Duke was the dashingly elegant mad-genius of composition, a black Mozart who imbued jazz with an emotional sophistication and wit that will never be surpassed. Louis almost single-handedly popularized the art of the solo, liberating jazz from ...
Duke Ellington: Masterpieces By Ellington
by C. Michael Bailey
Two Hundred Fifty-Plus Words on Ellington, Part I.Columbia Records waited until the end of 1950 before recording directly to tape, enabling pieces longer that the biblical three minutes to be recorded. All of this, in spite of the fact that long playing records debuted two years previously. This occasion was the first time in ...
Duke Ellington: Ellington Uptown
by C. Michael Bailey
Two Hundred Fifty-Plus Words on Ellington, Part II Duke Ellington Uptown was released shortly after Ellington adopted the 12-inch long player philosophy and began recording his concert of some of his greatest pieces. Before the present release, this recording was issued on three different occasions, each released including slightly different material. The original release (Columbia ML ...
Duke Ellington: Festival Session
by C. Michael Bailey
Two Hundred Fifty-Plus Words on Ellington, Part III. Festival Session is the third in a trio of remastered and reconfigured Columbia releases to the Legacy imprint. The other two are Ellington Uptown and Masterpieces by Ellington , both worthy of purchase considering the amount of reconstruction and updating the releases have undergone since the 1950s. All ...
Duke Ellington: Never No Lament: The Blanton/Webster Band
by AAJ Staff
There's something to be said for conciseness. Ellington and his band members were masters of the most succinct yet complete solos perhaps in jazz history. The two big stars in Duke's orchestral constellation from the early '40s were bassist Jimmie Blanton and his first official voice on tenor, Ben Webster. A recently reissued set of 3 ...
Duke Ellington: Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band
by David Rickert
The Blanton-Webster band sides represent an unparalleled burst of creativity in the history of jazz and stand without question as the best recordings of Ellington’s storied career. However, since the mid-nineties they have only been available with bland packaging and marginally acceptable sound, a woeful compromise since technological advancements had long since paved the way for ...
The Further Adventures of Duke Danger
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
Happy New Year, kids. Here's wishing you all the joy and prosperity you can possibly procure for yourself without drawing any attention from the proper authorities.That said.When last we left Duke Ellington , he had come into his own (I know what you're thinking. Stop it) as a composer and was constantly ...
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