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1969: All-Star White House Tribute to Duke Ellington
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Take the A Train
2. I Got It Bad
3. Chelsea Bridge
4. Satin Doll
5. Sophisticated Lady
6. Just Squeeze Me
7. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
8. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
9. Don
Duke Ellington Live at the Alhamabra
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Take The "A" Train, 2. Black And Tan Fantasy/Creole Love Call/The Mooche, 3. Newport Up, 4. Tenderly, 5. Juniflip, 6. Frustration, 7. Rockin' In Rhythm, 8. Jeep's Blues, 9. All Of Me, 10. Things Ain't What They Used To Be, 11. Jam With Sam, 12. Hi Fi Fo Fum, 13. Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue
Duke Ellington 1969: All-Star White House Tribute
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Take the 'A' Train; medley: I Got it Bad / Chelsea Bridge / Satin Doll / Sophisticated Lady / Just Squeeze Me / I Let a Song Go Out of my Heart / Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me / Don't Get Around Much Anymore / In a Mellotone; In a Sentimental Mood; Prelude to a Kiss; Ring Dem Bells; medley: Drop Me Off in Harlem / All Too Soon / It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing); Things Ain't What They Used To Be; Perdido; Warm Valley; Caravan; Mood Indigo; medley: Prelude to a Kiss / I Didn't Know About You; Praise God and Dance; Come Sunday; Heritage; Jump for Joy; Pat.
Money Jungle
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1963
Track listing: Money Jungle; Fleurette Africaine; Very Special; Warm Valley; Wig Wise; Caravan; Solitude; Switch Blade; A Little Max (Parfait); REM Blues; Backward Country Boy Blues; Solitude; Switch Blade; A Little Max (Parfait); REM Blues.
Duke Ellington: Money Jungle
by Jim Santella
The dramatic character of this album’s title track tells you from the start that few trio jam sessions have ever carried so much weight. Recorded in 1962, it brought together three definitive leaders in this field we call jazz. Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach interpreted a program of swinging Ellington material. His “Money Jungle,” ...
Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington Live at the Alhamabra
by David Rickert
The success of Ellington’s appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956 reinvigorated his career and once again made him a world-wide concert draw at a time when many other big bands were struggling to find work. His appearance at the Alhambra two years later has been circulating in bootleg form for years and is finally ...
Duke Ellington, et al.: 1969: All-Star White House Tribute to Duke Ellington
by Charlie B. Dahan
Duke Ellington celebrated his 70th birthday on April 29, 1969 as a guest of President Richard Nixon at the White House. In addition to receiving the distinguished Medal of Freedom, Ellington witnessed an all-star tribute concert featuring many of the day’s great jazz musicians in their prime, which until now, was lost. Recently a cassette belonging ...
Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington 1969: All-Star White House Tribute
by Jim Santella
A big band with Gerry Mulligan and Milt Hinton at the bottom, Paul Desmond and Clark Terry at the top, and an all-star cast in the middle makes this previously unissued session quite special. At the end, Duke Ellington sits down at the piano and performs a solo improvisation that he dedicated to Mrs. Pat Nixon. ...
Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music
by Mark Corroto
The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...
Dave Douglas: Brave New World
by AAJ Staff
Trumpeter / composer Dave Douglas has been creating new worlds for listeners for the past decade. His ethereal writing style for unconventional configurations transports audiences into unfamiliar territory. These distinctive compositions combined with his astonishing technique and expressionist improvisations have brought him critical and public acclaim as a visionary of his generation. The diversity of his ...
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