Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Ellington Uptown - VINYL LP

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Ellington Uptown - VINYL LP

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Title:

Ellington Uptown

Artist:

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

Label:

Pure Pleasure

Product Type:

VINYL LP

UPC:

5060149620724

Genre:

Big Band

Release Date:

2008-10-14

Number of Discs:

1

Additional Details:

180 GRAM VINYL

Even back in the early '50s, Columbia Records took Duke Ellington seriously enough to place this album on it's prestigious Masterworks label, heretofore reserved mostly for highbrow classical music and Broadway shows. Also, this LP explodes the critical line that the early '50s was a relatively fallow period for the Duke; any of these smoking, concert length tracks will torpedo that notion. Old favorites from the Ellington hit parade are given extended treatments, with singer Betty Roche taking the A-train for a bebop-flavored ride, "The Mooche" spotlighting clarinetists Jimmy Hamilton and Russell Procope, and Ellington's boogie-woogie piano kicking off a super-charged "Perdido" for trumpeter Clark Terry. 180 gram vinyl.

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