At the time of its release this was a true rarity, a full album of Duke Ellington featured with a trio sans his orchestra. Although his talents at the piano sometimes have been overshadowed by his many accomplishments as a composer, arranger, and bandleader, Ellington was actually one of the very few stride pianists (along with Mary Lou Williams) to effectively make the transition into more modern styles of jazz without losing his own musical personality; in fact Duke was an early influence on both Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor. Throughout this CD (which contains one previously unissued track), Ellington sounds modern (especially rhythmically and in his chord voicings) and shows that he could have made a viable career out of just being a pianist.
Genre - Jazz
Styles - Swing, Big Band, Piano Jazz
Time - 43:04
Format - mp3@192 Kbps
Size - 57 mb
Tracks
01. Who Knows?
02. Retrospection
03. B Sharp Blues
04. Passion Flower
05. Dancers in Love
06. Reflections in D
07. Melancholia
08. Prelude to a Kiss
09. In a Sentimental Mood
10. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
11. All Too Soon
12. Janet
13. Kinda Dukish
14. Montevideo
15. December Blue
Credits
Duke Ellington (piano)
Wendell Marshall (bass)
Butch Ballard, David Black (drums)
Ralph Collier (conga)
Label
Capitol, 1953
3 comentarios:
I was able to download the mediafire part of the album but there seems to be kink in the rapidshare link. Any chance of fixing it? Thanks a lot for all those great albums
Hello jbl, not there are two parts, are two options. you have the entire disc. Rapidshare limited the descent to us all, not a thing of the webmaster, greetings and sorry for my bad English.
Hola Gormenhast, solo comentarte que hace tiempo y gracias a ti salí de un gran error, pues confundia al Duke con Cab Calloway, aquél que salia en la peli de los Blues Bros. Gracias por todo una vez más, un abrazo.
LOL! I thought it was two parts two! LOL!