View basket “Undercurrent” has been added to your basket. Blues In Orbit Duke Ellington SKU: MOVLP443 Barcode: 8713748982973 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Music On Vinyl Released Date: 22nd March 2012 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Blues in Orbit lacks the intellectual cachet of the suites and concept pieces that loomed large in Ellington\’s recordings of this period, but it\’s an album worth tracking down, if only to hear the band run through a lighter side of its sound — indeed, it captures the essence of a late-night recording date that was as much a loose jam as a formal studio date, balancing the spontaneity of the former and the technical polish of the latter. Ellington and company were just back from a European tour when the bulk of this album was recorded, at one after-midnight session in New York on December 2, 1959, to arrangements that had to be hastily written out when the copyist failed to appear for the gig. So on the one hand, the band was kicking back with these shorter pieces; on the other, the group was also improvising freely and intensely at various points. The title-track, recorded more than a year before most of the rest, is a slow blues that puts Ellington\’s piano into a call-and-response setting with the horns, with Ellington getting in the last word. \”Villes Ville Is the Place, Man\” is a bracing, beat-driven jaunt, highlighted by solos featuring Ray Nance, Harry Carney, and Johnny Hodges on trumpet, baritone sax, and alto, respectively. \”Three J\’s Blues\” shows off composer Jimmy Hamilton playing some earthy tenor sax in a swinging, exuberant blues setting. \”Smada\” features Billy Strayhorn on piano and Johnny Hodges on alto, in a stirring dance number. \”Pie Eye\’s Blues\” is a hot studio improvisation featuring Ray Nance and Jimmy Hamilton trading three solos each, while Ellington\’s piano and the rest of the band try their emphatic best to get in a word or two. Nance shows up on violin as part of a string of soloists (including Matthew Gee, Paul Gonsalves, Bootie Wood, and Jimmy Hamilton) for \”C Jam Blues,\” whose four minutes\’ running time affords the group a chance to jam without overdoing it, or extending matters past the breaking point. Wood is the featured player on muted trombone on the slow, smooth \”Sweet and Pungent.\” A pair of more reflective, less extroverted numbers show off the more subtle side of the band, the slow, downbeat \”Blues in Blueprint,\” with Jimmy Woode\’s bass and Harry Carney\’s bass clarinet as the major featured players, with Strayhorn sitting in on piano and Ellington snapping his fingers; and \”Swingers Get the Blues, Too,\” featuring Matthew Gee on baritone horn. The finale, \”The Swinger\’s Jump,\” does just that, with Ellington, Hodges, Nance, Gee, Hamilton (on tenor and clarinet), Wood, and Johnson romping and stomping all over the basic riff. Originally issued in 1960. Artist Duke Ellington Genre Jazz Label Music On Vinyl Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country NET Track Listings Three J's Blues Smada Pie Eye's Blues Sweet and Pungent C Jam Blues In a Mellow Tone Blues in Blueprint The Swingers Get the Blues, Too The Swinger's Jump Blues in Orbit Villes Ville Is the Place, Man Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Duke Ellington View Product Quick View Duke Ellington Duke’s Big 4 (Analogue Productions/Pablo) Jazz | Analogue Productions/Pablo | 180g, 2LP Released 31st May 2024 £47.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Duke Ellington Duke’s Big 4 (Analogue Productions/Pablo) £47.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions/Pablo SKU: AAPJ 153 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 31st May 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Duke Ellington Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival 1969-1973 (The Lost Recordings) Jazz | The Lost Recordings | CD Released 11th September 2023 £19.00 Back Order View 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