Live at the Blue Note (Duke Ellington album)
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1959 live album by Duke Ellington
Live at the Blue Note | |
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Released | 1959 |
Recorded | August 9, 1959 at The Blue Note, Chicago |
Genre | Jazz |
Length | 134:46 |
Label | Roulette |
Live at the Blue Note is a live album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded at The Blue Note nightclub in Chicago for the Roulette label in 1959.[1]
The album was originally released as a single LP and rereleased as a double CD in 1994 with fourteen bonus tracks on the Blue Note label.
Reception[edit]
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated: “This two-CD set gives one a good example of how Duke Ellington’s Orchestra sounded in 1959. Greatly expanded from the original single LP, the release essentially brings back a full night by the Ellington band, three nearly complete sets. The music ranges from old favorites to some newer material”.[2]
Track listing[edit]
All compositions by Duke Ellington, except where noted.
Disc 1
- “Take the “A” Train” (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:17 Bonus track on CD reissue
- “Newport Up” (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 4:40 Bonus track on CD reissue
- “Haupe” [aka “Polly’s Theme”] – 3:58
- “Flirtibird” – 3:01
- “Pie Eye’s Blues” – 3:16
- “Almost Cried” – 3:20 Bonus track on CD reissue
- “Duael Fuel (Dual Filter)” – (Ellington, Clark Terry) – 11:37 Bonus track on CD reissue
- “Sophisticated Lady” (Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 3:56
- “Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool” (Shorty Baker, Ellington) – 7:17
- “El Gato” (Cat Anderson) – 4:13 Bonus track on CD reissue
- “C Jam Blues” (Barney Bigard, Ellington) – 4:52 Bonus track on CD reissue
- “Tenderly” (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) – 5:30 Bonus track on CD reissue
- “Honeysuckle Rose” (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) – 4:20 Bonus track on CD reissue
- “Drawing Room Blues” (Strayhorn) – 6:05 Bonus track on CD reissue
- “Tonk” (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 1:57 Bonus track on CD reissue
Disc 2
- “In a Mellow Tone” (Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 2:36
- “All of Me” (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 2:31
- “Things Ain’t What They Used to Be (Mercer Ellington) – 2:50
- “Jeep’s Blues” (Ellington, Johnny Hodges) – 3:50
- “Mood Indigo” (Bigard, Ellington, Mills) – 11:02 Bonus track on CD reissue
- “Perdido” (Juan Tizol) – 4:32
- “Satin Doll” (Ellington, Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer) – 4:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
- A Disarming Visit by June Christy & Stan Kenton – 2:56
- “Newport Up” (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 5:03 Bonus track on CD reissue
- “Medley: Black and Tan Fantasy/Creole Love Call/The Mooche” (Ellington, Strayhorn, James “Bubber” Miley) – 9:19
- “Passion Flower” (Strayhorn) 5:13
- “On the Sunny Side of the Street” (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 4:29
- “El Gato” (Anderson) – 4:18 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel[edit]
References[edit]
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