ALL CD

BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE

Reference: DIS-120367 * * * * * Down Beat (1958)
"What Ellington and Mahalia have done is created a gentle, reverent, powerful prayer. There is nothing else I can write to describe or interpret this album. I was moved by it through more than six playings. I think it's the best work Duke's band has done in years. I think, too, that Mahalia's presence was a stimulus to the performance which makes this more than another Ellington LP, but rather an Ellington milestone." Dom Cerulli

This release presents the complete original classic album Black, Brown and Beige with Mahalia Jackson's poignant voice backed by the Ellington orchestra. As a bonus, we have added three vocal related Ellington works: the suite "Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald"
* Duke and Billy Strayhorn' s dedication to the famous singer - and the only two vocal arrangements from the album Masterpieces by Ellington.

01. PART18:15 02. PART III 03. PARTIII (aka Light) 6:20 04. PART IV (aka Come Sunday) 7:56 05. PART V (aka Come Sunday interlude) 3:41 06. PART VI (23rd Psalm) 3:05 07. PORTRAIT OF ELLA FITZGERALD i6:ie* 08. MOOD �NDIGO 15:28* 09. SOPHISTICATED LADY 11:26*

Total Time: 78:42

DUKE ELLINGTON and His Orchestra:
Cat Anderson, Harold "Shorty" Baker, Clark Terry (tp), Ray Nance (tp & vln), Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman (tb), John Sanders (v-tb), Jimmy Hamilton (el), Russell Procope (as, el), Bill Graham (as), Paul Gonsalves (ts), Harry Carney (bs, b-cl, el), Duke Ellington (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Sam Woodyard (d). Los Angeles, February 1958.

*BONUS TRACKS:
7: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Chicago, September 2-3, 1957.
8-9: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra. Yvonne Lanauze (vcl). New York, December 19, 1950.

See 16-page booklet for complete information.

Label

ESSENTIAL JAZZ CLASSICS

Artist:

DUKE ELLINGTON

Format:

Label code:

EJC 55430

Number of discs:

Recording:

1958

Title:

BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE