Duke Ellington - The Carnegie Hall Concerts, December 1944 (1992)

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Title: The Carnegie Hall Concerts, December 1944
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: Prestige[2PCD-24073-2]
Genre: Jazz, Swing
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 01:35:42
Total Size: 296 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

CD1:

01. Blutopia (Ellington) - 4:23
02. Midriff (Strayhorn) - 4:01
03. Creole Love Call (Ellington) - 6:30
04. Suddenly It Jumped (Ellington) - 2:51
05. Pitter Panther Patter (Ellington) - 2:58
06. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (Ellington-Mills) - 3:57
07. Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Ellington-Persons) - 5:17
Perfume Suite (Strayhorn-Ellington)
08. Introduction - 0:55
09. Sonata - 3:15
10. Strange Feeling - 5:09
11. Dancers in Love - 2:33
12. Coloratura - 3:24

CD2:

01. Work Song (Ellington) - 7:00
02. The Blues (Ellington) - 5:25
03. Three Dances: West Indian Dance/Creamy Brown/Emancipation Celebration (Ellington) - 6:29
04. Come Sunday (Ellington) - 11:48
05. The Mood to Be Wooed (Ellington-Hodges) - 4:48
06. Blue Cellophane (Ellington) - 3:16
07. Blue Skies (Berlin) - 3:34
08. Frankie and Johnny (Trad.) - 8:09

personnel :

Duke Ellington - leader, piano, arranger
Rex Stewart, Taft Jordan, Cat Anderson, Shelton Hemphill - trumpets
Ray Nance - trumpet, violin, vocals (CD1#6)
Tricky Sam Nanton, Lawrence Brown, Claude Jones - trombone
Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Otto Hardwicke, Al Sears, Jimmy Hamilton - reeds
Fred Guy - guitar
Junior Raglin - bass
Hillard Brown - drums
Kay Davis, Marie Ellington, Al Hibbler - vocals

The Ellington orchestra was undergoing some personnel (and personality) changes during this era, none of it unexciting. This Carnegie Hall concert (available on two CDs) introduced Ellington's "Perfume Suite," and includes a half-hour series of selections from "Black, Brown and Beige," but also in the shorter pieces shows the impact of tenorman Al Sears and high-note wizard Cat Anderson on the band's sound, making it a more potentially boisterous and extroverted ensemble. Lots of great moments from this brilliant orchestra occured during this concert.~Scott Yanow