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Artist:Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra
Title:Duke Ellington's Greatest
Label:  His Master's Voice
Country:UK
Catalogue:DLP.1007
Date:1953
Format:10" LP
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Community: 3 Own
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Duke Ellington And His Famous OrchestraIt Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)Irving Mills, Duke EllingtonRate
A2Duke Ellington And His Famous OrchestraCaravanIrving Mills, Duke Ellington, Juan TizolRate
A3Duke Ellington And His Famous OrchestraI Let A Song Go Out Of My HeartIrving Mills, Duke Ellington, Henry NemoRate
A4Duke Ellington And His Famous OrchestraBlack And Tan FantasyBud Miley, Duke EllingtonRate
B1Duke Ellington And His Famous OrchestraIn A Sentimental MoodIrving Mills, Duke Ellington, Manny KurtzRate
B2Duke Ellington And His Famous OrchestraSophisticated LadyIrving Mills, Duke Ellington, Mitchell ParishRate
B3Duke Ellington And His Famous OrchestraSolitudeIrving Mills, Duke Ellington, Eddie De LangeRate
B4Duke Ellington And His Famous OrchestraPrelude To A KissIrving Gordon, Duke EllingtonRate


Notes

A1: vocal refrain by Joya Sherrill, Kay Davis and Marie.
A3: vocal refrain by Joya Sherrill.
B3: vocal refrain by Joya Sherrill, Kay Davis, Marie and Al Hibbler.
B4: w. Harry Carney, bs; Ray Nance, vl.

Recorded in 1945.
Issued on RCA Victor (USA: 10" LP) #LPT 1004.
A Gramophone release.

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getalife
10th May 2022
 Was that late 60s early 70s at Hammersmith Odeon.
 

 
JazzBrit
10th May 2022
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What wonderful arrangements and performances! I grew up with this LP – my father was a great Ellington fan, who had seen the Duke in concert in the US before I was born. (When I was a youngster, we saw the orchestra together twice at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in Ellington's last years).

The versions of "Sophisticated Lady" and "In a Sentimental Mood" on this record are symphonic movements in perfect miniature, with the subjects, developments and transitions compressed into a couple of minutes, somehow containing an expansive sound but intense and exciting because they are so concise. (You could call them the perfect antidote to Bruckner!).

Other highlights of these particular performances and arrangements include the controlled dissonance in "Caravan", the power and beat of "Black and Tan Fantasy", the propelling swing of "It Don't Mean a Thing" and the sweet vocal of "I let a Song go out of My Heart".

Other performances of these pieces recorded by the Ellington orchestra are equally wonderful but very different. I love hearing his different arrangements and performances of a given composition - it's part of the joy of listening to Duke Ellington - but I keep coming back to this LP. (I stream its tracks now - my copy is pretty scratched).

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caseellerbroek SUBS
18th Nov 2017
 Back cover and labels added.
 


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