Duke Ellington

5 STARS DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE (1958)
INCLUDES 3 BONUS TRACKS

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, 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.

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.

INCLUDES 16 PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01. PART I
02. PART III
03. PARTIII (aka Light)
04. PART IV (aka Come Sunday)
05. PART V (aka Come Sunday interlude)
06. PART VI (23rd Psalm)
07. PORTRAIT OF ELLA FITZGERALD*
08. MOOD ÍNDIGO*
09. SOPHISTICATED LADY*

Total Time: 78:42

"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