Duke Ellington
Such Sweet Thunder (Mini-Lp Gatefold Replica) (81253)
Such Sweet Thunder (Mini-Lp Gatefold Replica)
Duke Ellington
State of Art
8436569192900
SAR 155464
81253
JAZZ
1
NEW MINI-LP PAPERSLEEVE GATEFOLD REPLICA WITH OBI
5 STARS DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE
INCLUDES 3 BONUS TRACKS
The result of many sessions, the current edition presents the complete original Such Sweet Thunder album (tracks 1-12) plus three tunes from the same sessions that were originally intended to form part of the suite but were later discarded (“Suburban Beauty”, “A Flat Minor” and “Café Au Lait”). As a bonus, this release also includes two of Ellington’s previous suites: The Harlem Suite, also known as A Tone Parallel to Harlem, and The Controversial Suite, a kind of humorous work written as a friendly critique of some of the different musical styles in jazz.
PERSONNEL:
DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA:
Clark Terry, Willie Cook, Cat Anderson, Ray Nance (tp),
Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, John Sanders (tb),
Jimmy Hamilton (cl, ts), Russell Procope (as, cl),
Johnny Hodges (as), Harry Carney (bar, cl, b-cl),
Duke Ellington (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Sam Woodyard (d).
New York, December 6, 1956-May 3, 1957.
(*) B0NUS TRACKS:
16: THE HARLEM SUITE. New York, December 7, 1951.
17-18: THE CONTROVERSIAL SUITE. New York, December 11, 1951.
TRACKS:
01 SUCH SWEET THUNDER
02 SONNET FOR CAESAR
03 SONNET TO HANK CINQ
04 LADY MAC
05 SONNET IN SEARCH OF A MOOR
06 THE TELECASTERS
07 UP AND DOWN, UP AND DOWN (I WILL LEAD THEM UP AND DOWN)
08 SONNET FOR SISTER KATE
09 THE STAR CROSSED LOVERS
10 MADNESS IN GREAT ONES
11 HALF THE FUN
12 CIRCLE OF FOURTHS
13 SUBURBAN BEAUTY
14 A FLAT MINOR
15 CAFÉ AU LAIT
16 A TONE PARALLEL TO HARLEM (THE HARLEM SUITE) (*)
17 THE CONTROVERSIAL SUITE PART 1 (Before My Time) (*)
18 THE CONTROVERSIAL SUITE PART 2 (Later) (*)
TOTAL TIME: 68:58 Min.
