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ellington, duke - ellington uptown (33rpm lp)
[PP ML4639]

24,56EUR

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MEDIUM Vinyl Record
WEIGHT 180gr (black vinyl) 33rpm
CONDITION sealed
CONDITION RECORD M mint
COVER Standard
CONDITION COVER M mint
SERIALNUMBER No
BARCODE Yes
LIMITED No
MISCELLANEOUS --

MUSICIANS

Wendell Marshall – bass
Billy Strayhorn – piano
Juan Tizol – trombone
Russell Procope – sax
Quentin Jackson – trombone
Britt Woodman – trombone
Harry Carney – sax
Clark Terry – trumpet
Duke Ellington – piano
Jimmy Hamilton – sax
Hilton Jefferson – sax
Louie Bellson – drums
Paul Gonsalves – sax
Ray Nance – trumpet
Betty Roche – vocals (track 3)

SIDE 1

skin deep - 6:51
the mooche - 6:36
take the "a" train - 7:59

SIDE 2

tone parallel to harlem (the harlem suite) - 13:48
perdido - 8:21

REVIEW

Even back in the early '50s, Columbia Records took Duke Ellington seriously enough to place this album on its prestigious Masterworks label, heretofore reserved mostly for highbrow classical music and Broadway shows

Also, this LP explodes the critical line that the early '50s was a relatively fallow period for the Duke; any of these smoking, concert-length tracks will torpedo that notion

The young Louis Bellson was powering the Ellington band at that time, and his revolutionary double-bass drum technique and rare ability to build coherent drum solos are put to astounding use on his self-penned leadoff track, "Skin Deep", which was quite a demonstration piece for audiophiles at the time

Old favorites from the Ellington hit parade are given extended treatments, with singer Betty Roche taking the "A-Train" for a bebop-flavored ride, "The Mooche" spotlighting clarinetists Jimmy Hamilton and Russell Procope, and Ellington's boogie-woogie piano kicking off a super-charged "Perdido" for trumpeter Clark Terry

The centerpiece of the disc is a sharply drawn, idiomatically swinging, probably unbeatable performance of "A Tone Parallel To Harlem" that lays waste to any of the 'symphonic' versions that turn up frequently at pop concerts

Another feature of this record is the great sound quality, a benefit of being entrusted to Columbia's best engineers

RECORDING December 7 1951 - December 8 1952
MASTERING --
RE MASTERING --
RE RELEASED September 2008
RATING 4 ½ Stars out of 5
PRESSING by Pallas Germany
MADE IN Germany / England
STYLE Jazz / Swing
AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock

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This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 03 September, 2008.

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