First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

1961 album by Duke Ellington From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

First Time! The Count Meets the Duke is an album by American pianists, composers and bandleaders Duke Ellington and Count Basie with their combined Orchestras recorded and released on the Columbia label in 1961.[1]

Released1961
RecordedJuly 6, 1961
StudioColumbia 30th Street, New York City
GenreJazz
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First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
Studio album by
Duke Ellington and Count Basie
Released1961
RecordedJuly 6, 1961
StudioColumbia 30th Street, New York City
GenreJazz
Length40:58 (original release)
73:43 (1999 expanded and remastered edition)
LabelColumbia
ProducerTeo Macero
Duke Ellington chronology
Paris Blues
(1961)		 First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
(1961)		 The Girl's Suite and The Perfume Suite
(1961)
Count Basie chronology
Basie at Birdland
(1961)		 First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
(1961)		 The Legend
(1961)
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On stereo releases of the album, Basie's band is featured on the left channel and Ellington's on the right.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[2]
Down BeatStarStarStarStar[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz RecordingsStarStarStar[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record GuideStarStarStarStarStar[5]
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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "a very successful and surprisingly uncrowded encounter. On most selections Ellington and Basie both play piano (their interaction with each other is wonderful) and the arrangements allowed the stars from both bands to take turns soloing".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated

  1. "Battle Royal" - 5:33
  2. "To You" (Thad Jones) - 3:53
  3. "Take the 'A' Train (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:46
  4. "Corner Pocket" [a.k.a. "Until I Met You"] (Freddie Green, Donald Wolf) - 4:53
  5. "Wild Man" [a.k.a. "Wild Man Moore"] - 6:20
  6. "Segue in C" (Frank Wess) - 8:22
  7. "B D B" (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 4:43
  8. "Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Count Basie) - 3:09
1999 CD Reissue Bonus Tracks
  2. "One More Once" - 3:25
  3. "Take the 'A' Train" [alternate take] (Strayhorn) - 5:50
  4. "Jumpin' at the Woodside" [alternate take] (Basie) - 3:14
  5. "B D B" [alternate take] (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 4:30
  6. "Blues in Hoss' Flat" (Basie, Frank Foster) - 3:13
  7. "Wild Man" [alternate take] - 5:55
  8. "Battle Royal" [alternate take] - 6:32

Personnel

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