Live at the Blue Note (Duke Ellington album)
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| Live at the Blue Note | ||||
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| Released | 1959 | |||
| Recorded | August 9, 1959 | |||
| Venue | The Blue Note, Chicago | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 134:46 | |||
| Label | Roulette | |||
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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.
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]
| Review scores | |
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| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |  [3] |
Track listing
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
- Duke Ellington – piano (tracks 1.2-2.13)
- Billy Strayhorn – piano (tracks 1.1 & 1.14)
- Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker, Willie Cook, Clark Terry – trumpet
- Ray Nance – trumpet, violin
- Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman – trombone
- John Sanders – valve trombone
- Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, tenor saxophone
- Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone
- Russell Procope – alto saxophone, clarinet
- Paul Gonsalves – tenor saxophone
- Harry Carney – baritone saxophone
- Jimmy Woode – bass (tracks 1.1-2.6 & 2.8-2.13)
- Johnny Pate – bass (track 2.7)
- Sam Woodyard – drums
- James "Jimmy" Johnson Jr. – drums
References
- ↑ "A Duke Ellington Panorama". Archived from the original on September 9, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2010.
- 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Live at the Blue Note at AllMusic. Accessed May 18, 2010.
- ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 435. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
