Original Album Classics : Duke Ellington

構成数 : 5
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Personnel: Duke Ellington (vocals, piano); Mahalia Jackson (vocals); Ray Nance (violin, trumpet); Russell Procope (clarinet, reeds, saxophone, alto saxophone); Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet, reeds, saxophone, tenor saxophone); Paul Gonsalves (reeds, saxophone, tenor saxophone); Harry Carney (reeds, saxophone, baritone saxophone); Johnny Hodges (reeds, alto saxophone); Frank Foster , Marshall Royal, Budd Johnson (reeds); Hilton Jefferson (saxophone); Bill Graham (alto saxophone); Quentin Jackson (trumpet, trombone); Clark Terry, Fats Ford, Lennie Johnson, Eddie Mullens, Gerald Wilson, Harold Baker, Shorty Baker, Snooky Young, Thad Jones, Willie Cook, Sonny Cohn, Cat Anderson (trumpet); Lawrence D. Brown, Henry Coker, Bennie Powell, Louise Blackburn, Juan Tizol, John Sanders, Britt Woodman (trombone); Count Basie, Billy Strayhorn (piano); Jimmy Johnson, Jr. , Louie Bellson, Sam Woodyard (drums). For the right price, this five-CD collection of Duke Ellington albums from the '50s is about as potent and diverse a product for this time period as you will find, given you don't already have them all on single discs. The less essential Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown, which was also reissued with the recording Blue Light, kicks off the set. The following three CDs -- Such Sweet Thunder, Black, Brown & Beige, and the heavy Otto Preminger movie soundtrack Anatomy of a Murder -- are among Ellington's finest of any time frame in his career. Some critics have dissed First Time!, which is a collaboration with the Count Basie Orchestra, but it remains unique and potent. Any Ellington lover would enjoy this as a present, and to have all of them in one package is simply magnificent. This comes highly recommended. ~ Michael G. Nastos