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Track Listing
1. Take the "A" Train
2. Caravan
3. Cottontail
4. Mood Indigo
5. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
6. Prelude to a Kiss
7. Satin Doll
8. Stompy Jones
9. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
10. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
11. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Duke Ellington (leader, piano); Ella Fitzgerald, Al Hibbler (vocals); Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope (alto saxophone); Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gonsalves, Frank Foster, Sam "The Man" Taylor, Ben Webster, Arthur Clarke (tenor saxophone); Harry Carney (baritone saxophone); Cat Anderson, Willie Cook, Clark Terry, Ray Nance, Dizzy Gillespie, Harold "Shorty" Baker, Bill Berry (trumpet); Chuck Connors (trombone, bass trombone); Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, John Sanders, Lawrence Brown (trombone); Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet); Leroy Lovett, Oscar Peterson, Billy Strayhorn (piano); Barney Kessel (guitar); Jimmy Woode, Lloyd Trotman, Ray Brown, Aaron Bell (bass); Sam Woodyard, Louis Bellson, J.C. Heard (drums).
Recorded between 1953 and 1966. Includes liner notes by James Isaacs.
Digitally remastered by Mark Wilder & Dennis Drake (PolyGram Studios, USA).
Though limited by the relatively small number of recordings Duke Ellington made for Verve Records during his career, the DUKE ELLINGTON AND FRIENDS edition of Verve's early-'90s COMPACT JAZZ series of reissues is inarguably one of the series' best.
Opening with Ella Fitzgerald's legendary rendition of "Take the A Train" (also available on the Fitzgerald/Ellington edition of COMPACT JAZZ), the 56-minute, 11-track disc moves through a number of small-group recordings made under the names of Ellington sidemen like tenor Ben Webster and alto Johnny Hodges, as well as the underrated singer Al Hibbler, whose "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" is a career highlight. The disc also includes big band versions of Ellington classics like "Satin Doll" and Prelude to a Kiss," many of which were recorded at Verve founder Norman Granz's legendary Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts.
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