Piano in the Foreground

Album de Duke Ellington
Sortie	1961
Enregistré	20 mars 1957 (#15 à #18); 10 octobre 1957 (#13 et #14); 1er et 2 mars 1961 (#1 à #12); Studio Columbia Records (#13 à #18); Radio Recorders, Los Angeles (#1 à #12)
Genre	Jazz
Producteur	Irving Townsend
Label	Columbia Records
Critique	The Guardian

Sortie 1961

Enregistré 20 mars 1957 (#15 à #18)
10 octobre 1957 (#13 et #14)
1^er et 2 mars 1961 (#1 à #12)
Studio Columbia Records (#13 à #18)
Radio Recorders, Los Angeles (#1 à #12)

Genre Jazz

Producteur Irving Townsend

Piano in the Foreground est un album du pianiste américain Duke Ellington édité en 1961 et enregistré en mars 1961. On y trouve Ellington en trio, loin des enregistrements en big band qui ont fait sa célébrité.

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N^o	Titre	Musique	Durée
1.	I Can't Get Started	Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin	4:23
2.	Cong-Go	Aaron Bell, Duke Ellington	4:16
3.	Body and Soul	Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green	4:49
4.	Blues for Jerry	Duke Ellington	4:38
5.	Fontainebleau Forest	Duke Ellington	2:53
6.	Summertime	George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward	3:52
7.	It's Bad to Be Forgotten	Duke Ellington	3:22
8.	A Hundred Dreams Ago	Duke Ellington	2:26
9.	So	Duke Ellington	4:33
10.	Searching (Pleading for Love)	Duke Ellington	1:49
11.	Springtime in Africa	Aaron Bell, Duke Ellington	3:46
12.	Lotus Blossom	Billy Strayhorn	3:18

N^o	Titre	Musique	Durée
13.	All the Things You Are	Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern	4:00
14.	All the Things You Are	Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern	3:51
15.	Piano Improvisation n^o 2	Duke Ellington	3:25
16.	Piano Improvisation n^o 3	Duke Ellington	2:48
17.	Piano Improvisation n^o 4	Duke Ellington	1:53
18.	Piano Improvisation n^o 1	Duke Ellington	9:45

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En studio	Braggin' in Brass: The Immortal 1938 Year (1938) The Blanton-Webster Band (1942) Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band (1942) Liberian Suite (1947) Great Times! (en) (1950) Masterpieces by Ellington (en) (1951) Ellington Uptown (1952) The Duke Plays Ellington (en) (1953) Ellington ‘55 (en) (1954) Dance to the Duke! (en) (1954) Ellington Showcase (en) (1955) Historically Speaking (en) (1956) Duke Ellington Presents... (en) (1956) The Complete Porgy and Bess (en) (1956) A Drum Is a Woman (en) (1956) Studio Sessions, Chicago 1956 (en) (1957) Such Sweet Thunder (en) (1957) Ellington Indigos (en) (1957) Black, Brown and Beige (en) (1958) Duke Ellington at the Bal Masque (en) (1958) The Cosmic Scene (en) (1958) Happy Reunion (1958) Jazz Party (1959) Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues (en) (1959) Side by Side (1959) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Festival Session (en) (1959) Blues in Orbit (en) (1959) The Nutcracker Suite (1960) Piano in the Background (en) (1960) Swinging Suites by Edward E. and Edward G. (1960) Unknown Session (en) (1960) Piano in the Foreground (1961) The Great Summit: The Master Takes (en) (1961) Paris Blues (1961) First Time! The Count Meets the Duke (en) (1961) Duke Ellington and John Coltrane (1962) Featuring Paul Gonsalves (en) (1962) Studio Sessions 1957 & 1962 (en) (1962) Midnight in Paris (en) (1962) Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1962) Studio Sessions, New York 1962 (en) (1962) Money Jungle (1962) Afro-Bossa (1963) The Symphonic Ellington (en) (1963) Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session (1963) Studio Sessions New York 1963 (1963) My People (en) (1963) Ellington '65 (en) (1964) Duke Ellington Plays Mary Poppins (en) (1964) Ellington '66 (en) (1965) Concert in the Virgin Islands (en) (1965) The Popular Duke Ellington (en) (1966) Far East Suite (1966) The Jaywalker (en) (1967) Studio Sessions, 1957, 1965, 1966, 1967, San Francisco, Chicago, New York (en) (1967) ...And His Mother Called Him Bill (1967) Studio Sessions, 1957, 1965, 1966, 1967, San Francisco, Chicago, New York (en) (1967) Second Sacred Concert (1968) Studio Sessions New York, 1968 (en) (1970) Latin American Suite (en) (1970) The Pianist (en) (1970) New Orleans Suite (en) (1970) Orchestral Works (en) (1970) The Suites, New York 1968 & 1970 (en) (1970) The Intimacy of the Blues (en) (1970) The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse (en) (1971) Studio Sessions New York & Chicago, 1965, 1966 & 1971 (en) (1971) The Intimate Ellington (en) (1971) The Ellington Suites (en) (1972) This One's for Blanton! (1972) Up in Duke’s Workshop (en) (1972) Duke's Big Four (1973)
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Les dates indiquées entre parenthèses correspondent à la dernière séance d'enregistrement de l'album.

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