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The Capitol Sessions 1953-1955 (4 Cd Set)
Duke Ellington
Featuring: Duke Ellington (p, electric p) performing duets, trios, sextets and orchestral numbers with Clark Terry, Willie Cook, Cat Anderson (tp), Ray Nance (tp, vl, vcl), Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, Juan Tizol (tb), Jimmy Hamilton (cl, ts), Rick Henderson (as)
REFERENCE: DRCD 11361_4
BAR CODE: -
All taken from the period marked by his contract with Capitol, between 1953 and 1955, this large body of recordings contains many elements outside of Ellington's familiar repertoire. For instance, instead of playing his old and new compositions, he devoted many sessions to arrangements of jazz standards and popular songs commonly associated with other bands.
The most obvious gems here were generated during the duo/trio sessions of 1953, in which the Duke was backed by Wendell Marshall on bass and Butch Pollard on drums. The last Capitol session, recorded on May 19, 1955, is another curiosity. Here Ellington again called upon a smaller unit, playing with a septet and on electric piano!
Tracklisting:
CD1
1. Satin Doll
2. Without a Song
3. Cocktails For Two
4. My Old Flame
5. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
6. Ain't Nothin' Nothin' (Baby Without You)
7. Stormy Weather
8. Stardust
9. Three Little Words
10. Orson
11. Boo-Dah
12. Blossom
13. Ballin' the Blues
14. Warm Valley
15. Flamingo
16. Blue Jean Beguine
17. Liza
18. Who Knows?
19. Retrospection
20. B Sharp Blues
21. Passion Flower
22. Dancers in Love
23. Reflections in D
24. Melancholia
25. Prelude to a Kiss
26. In a Sentimental Mood
CD2
1. Things Ain't What They Used To Be
2. All Too Soon
3. Janet
4. Give Me The Right
5. Is It A Sin? (My Loving You)
6. Basin Street Blues
7. Big Drag
8. Don't Ever Say Goodbye
9. Kinda Dukish
10. Montevideo
11. December Blue
12. I'm Just a Lucky So and So
13. It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream
14. What More Can I Say?
15. Rockin' in Rhythm
16. Ultra Deluxe
17. Flying Home
18. Blue Moon
19. Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'
20. Ultra Deluxe
21. Flying Home
22. What More Can I Say?
23. Serious Serenade
24. Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'
CD3
1. Honeysuckle Rose
2. Stompin' at the Savoy
3. Don't Ever Say Goodbye
4. Black and Tan Fantasy
5. Frivolous Banta
6. In the Mood
7. One O'Clock Jump
8. Things Ain't What They Used To Be
9. Happy Go-Lucky Local
10 .Rockin' in Rhythm
11. Falling Like a Raindrop
12. All Day Long
13. Bunny Hop Mambo
14. Isle of Capr
15. C Jam Blues
16. Band Call
17. Gonna Tan Your Hide
18. Smile
19. Echo Tango
20. If I Give My Heart to You
CD4
1. Chile Bowl
2. Bakiff
3. Twelfth Street Rag Mambo
4. September Song
5. Caravan
6. La Virgen de la Macarena
7. Harlem Air Shaft
8. Look What I've Got For You
9. Commercial Time
10. Clarinet Melodrama
11. Theme for Trambean
12. Coquette
13. Serious Serenade
14. Body and Soul
15. Once in a Blue Mood
16. Lady Be Good
17. So Long
18. It Don't Mean a Thing
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