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Russell Procope

Born: August 11, 1908

Ella Fitzgerald Live at Falkoner Theatre Copnhagen 1966

By Ella Fitzgerald

Label: Gearbox Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Satin Doll; Hey Little Girl; Something To Live For; Let’s Do It; Sweet Georgia Brown; How High The Moon; Lover Man; Só Danço Samba; I’m Just A lucky So And So; Mack The Knife.

Copenhagen 1964

By Duke Ellington

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Take the 'A' Train; Medley: Black and Tan Fantasy, The Mooche, Creole Love Call: Harlem; Happy Reunion; Amad; Agra; Bluebird of Delhi; Depk; Isfahan; Things Ain't What They Used to Be; Banquet Scene (from Timon of Athens); Skillipoop; Kinda Dukish and Rockin' in Rhythm; Jones.

Percy France: Live from the West End

by Daniel Gould
August 27, 2026

 If you know Percy France, most likely you are a fan of “greasy" organ jazz, particularly on Blue Note Records during their classic era. He was an integral part of Jimmy Smith's Home Cookin' (1959) and Freddie Roach's Down to Earth (1962). Or perhaps you came to jazz through r&b acts like the Bill Doggett combo. The ...

Duke Ellington: Copenhagen 1964

by Jack Kenny
March 3, 2026

All Duke Ellington concerts offered music of substance. Audiences listened patiently through the medleys and Tony Watkins' vocals. Some performances, however, stood apart because they contained material that was fresh--music not yet worn thin by repetition, where both the thinking and playing could still surprise. Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and the orchestra toured Asia (the ...

UMe To Release New Frank Sinatra Double Vinyl Set ‘The Giants Of Jazz’

August 9, 2025

INCLUDES RARE PHOTOS & ORIGINAL ARTWORK UMe, in conjunction with Frank Sinatra Enterprises, announces a new exclusive double-vinyl collection from Frank Sinatra, featuring his historic collaborations with Count Basie and Duke Ellington, entitled The Giants Of Jazz, out September 26, 2025. This special release includes a pair of timeless albums—It Might As Well Be Swing with ...

Duke Ellington's Concert of Sacred Music

by Chuck Lenatti
June 1, 2025

In 1964, Dean D.J. Bartlett and the Reverend John S. Yaryan invited Duke Ellington and his orchestra to present a concert to consecrate the renovated Grace Cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco during a year-long festival of Grace. At first, Duke demurred. In his autobiography, Music Is My Mistress (Da Capo, 1976), Ellington ...

Jack Chambers: Rethinking Duke Ellington

by Jack Kenny
May 20, 2025

Jack Chambers is professor at the University of Toronto and teacher of music and language. His jazz writings include the prize winning biography Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis (Da Capo Press, 1998) and Bouncin' with Bartok: The Incomplete Works of Richard Twardzik (Mercury PR, 2008). Sweet Thunder: Duke Ellington's Music In Nine Themes ...

Copenhagen 1958

By Duke Ellington

Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Take the A Train (Theme); Newport Up; My Funny Valentine; Perdido; Sophisticated Lady; Sonnet to Hank Cinq; What Else Can You Do With a Drum; Rockin' in Rhythm; Prelude to a Kiss; Things Ain't What They Used to Be; El Gato; Hi Fi Fo Fum; Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue; I Can't Get Started; Body and Soul; A Little Blues; Sophisticated Lady; Mood Indigo.

Kansas Smitty's: Things Happened Here

by Chris May
June 25, 2020

Kansas Smitty's is the house band at a London jazz bar of the same name. Band and bar are fronted by the American-Italian alto saxophonist, clarinetist and bass clarinetist Giacomo Smith, who with guitarist David Archer wrote most of the material on this album. The band's style embraces swing era Kansas City through to more recent ...