Black, Brown and Beige Duke Ellington & His Orchestra feat. Mahalia Jackson SKU: PPANCL1162 Barcode: 5060149622414 47.00 £47.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure Released Date: 30th September 2016 Buying Format: 180g 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London 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. Black, Brown, & Beige 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. Personnel: Duke Ellington, piano / Cat Anderson, Harold Baker, Clark Terry, trumpets / Ray Nance, trumpet & violin / Quentin Jackson, John Sanders, Britt Woodman, trombones / Harry Carney, baritone saxophone / Paul Gonsalves, tenor saxophone /Bill Graham, alto saxophone / Jimmy Hamilton, clarinet / Russell Procope, clarinet & alto saxophone /Jimmy Woode, bass /Sam Woodyard, drums / Mahalia Jackson, vocals Original Recordings Produced by Irving Townsend Artist Duke Ellington & His Orchestra feat. Mahalia Jackson Genre Jazz Label Pure Pleasure Buying Options 180g 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Format 180g , 2LP , Gatefold Sleeve Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings Side A 1. Part 1 2. Part 11 3. Part 111 (aka Light) Side B 1. Part 1V (aka Come Sunday) 2. Part V (aka Come Sunday) 3. Part V1 (23rd Psalm) *Side C 1. Track 360 (aka Trains)(alt. take) 2. Blues In Orbit (aka Tender)(alt. take) 3. Part 1 (alt. take) 4. Part 11 (alt. take) 5. Part 111 (aka Light) (alt. take) *Side D 1. Part 1V (aka Come Sunday)(alt. take) 2. Part V (aka Come Sunday)(alt. take) 3. Part V1 (23rd Psalm)(alt. take) 4. Studio Conversation (Mahalia swears) 5. 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