Duke Ellington

• 4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

• INCLUDES 9 BONUS TRACKS

This release presents the complete original Duke Ellington album Piano in the Foreground (Columbia CS8829), one of the few occasions on which Duke devoted a whole album to his trio playing. As a bonus , two complete Ellington trio sessions from 1957 and three further titles from a 1953 session in the same format.

PERSONNEL:

• DUKE ELLINGTONpiano
• AARON BELL, bass
• SAM WOODYARD, drums

Los Angeles, March 1 & 2, 1961.

• BONUS TRACKS:
• [13-18] Duke Ellington (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Sam Woodyard (d).
• New York, October 10 (tracks 13-14) & March 20 (tracks 15-18), 1957.
• [19-21] Duke Ellington (p), Wendell Marshall (b), Butch Ballard (d).
• Los Angeles, April 13 & 14, 1953.

TRACKS:

• 01. I Can’t Get Started
• 02. Cong-Go
• 03. Body And Soul
• 04. Blues For Jerry
• 05. Fontainebleau Forest
• 06. Summertime
• 07. It’s Bad To Be Forgotten
• 08. A Hundred Dreams Ago
• 09. So
• 10. Searching (Pleading For Love)
• 11. Springtime In Africa
• 12. Lotus Blossom
• 13. All The Things You Are [Take 1]
• 14. All The Things You Are [Take 2]
• 15. Piano Improvisation No.1
• 16. Piano Improvisation No.2
• 17. Piano Improvisation No.3
• 18. Piano Improvisation No.4
• 19. Dancers In Love
• 20. Prelude To A Kiss
• 21. In A Sentimental MoodV

• TOTAL TIME: 77:23