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duke ellington / mahalia jackson - black, brown and beige (2 x 33rpm lp)
duke ellington / mahalia jackson - black, brown and beige (2 x 33rpm lp)
MEDIUM Vinyl Record
WEIGHT 2 x 180gr (black Vinyl) 33rpm
CONDITION sealed
COVER Gatefold
CONDITION COVER M mint
COVER DAMAGES No, we take care about that
SERIALNUMBER No
LIMITED Yes
MISCELLANEOUS Mono
MUSICIAN HOMEPAGE dukeellington.com
Cat Anderson - trumpet
Shorty Baker - trumpet
Lawrence Brown - trombone
Harry Carney - bass clarinet, baritone sax
Willie Cook - trumpet
Duke Ellington - narrator, piano
Mercer Ellington - french horn
Tyree Glenn - trombone
Paul Gonsalves - tenor sax
Bill Graham - alto sax
Sonny Greer - drums
Jimmy Hamilton - clarinet, tenor sax
Johnny Hodges - alto sax
Mahalia Jackson - vocals
Quentin Jackson - trombone
Yvonne Lanauze - vocals
Wendell Marshall - bass
Andres Merenghito - trumpet
Ray Nance - trumpet, violin
Russell Procope - clarinet, alto sax
John Sanders - valve trombone
Billy Strayhorn - piano
Clark Terry - trumpet
Nelson Williams - trumpet
Jimmy Woode - bass
Britt Woodman - trombone
Sam Woodyard - drums
part I - 8:17
part II - 6:14
part III (aka light) - 6:26
part IV (aka come sunday) - 7:58
part V (aka come sunday) - 3:46
part VI (23rd psalm) - 3:01
track 360 (aka trains) [alternate take] - 2:02
part I [alternate take] - 6:49
part II [alternate take] - 6:38
part III (aka light) [alternate take] - 3:08
part IV (aka come sunday) [alternate take] - 2:23
part V (aka come sunday) [alternate take] - 5:51
part VI (23rd psalm) [alternate take] - 1:59
studio conversation (mahalia swears) - 0:07
come sunday (a cappella) - 5:47
(pause track) - 0:06
"Black, Brown & Beige" is Duke Ellington's musical representation of the African American experience in the United States
It is arguably The Maestro's greatest work
The triumph of telling so important a story so well through music alone makes Duke Ellington's "Black, Brown & Beige" a masterpiece
It also displays Duke's, and Jazz's, highest achievement in long form
Whether you perceive it as a three movement symphony or accept Ellington's own personalized terminology »Tone Parallel«, "Black, Brown & Beige" matches conceptually and in artistic content the musical continuity of Western Classical's greatest names in their lengthiest works
The history of "Black, Brown & Beige" is in its own right momentous
Ellington premiered the work at Carnegie Hall on January 23, 1943, at Duke's first performance on that illustrious stage
The Maestro has created the "Come Sunday Suite"
Duke Ellington basically reduced his three movement work to its first, "Black", elevating that movement's spiritual theme, "Come Sunday", making it the melody of the edited work
Truncating the symphony "Black, Brown, & Beige" into the song "Come Sunday" works because Duke Ellington has expanded "Come Sunday" through numerous theme and variations unknown to the original
The piece de resistance: a sacred text, by Duke himself, a text sung by the best known African-American religious singer in history, Mahalia Jackson
There is no doubt that it is the presence and performance of Mahalia Jackson which secures a home in the pantheon for this recasting of "Black, Brown & Beige", a work that already resided there
And Duke Ellington pulled off this coup with one hand tied behind his back, or without the services of his right hand man
Overlooked over the years since the album "Black, Brown & Beige" was recorded in February 1958 is the absence of Johnny Hodges (Hodges did a gig with Strayhorn in Florida during this period), the Ellington band's premier soloist …
The sides C & D are released on vinyl for the first time with this issue
RECORDING February 4 - 5, 11 - 12 1958
ENGINEERING --
LABEL Columbia
RE MASTERING Ray Staff
RE RELEASED 2016
AVERAGE RATING 4 ½ Stars out of 5
PRESSING by Pallas
MADE IN England / Germany
STYLE Jazz / Swing / Big Band
AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock
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