Festival Session

Duke Ellington

SKU: 8436563181221

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  • Genre: Jazz
  • Label: Spiral Jazz
  • Released Date: 8th September 2017
  • Buying Format:
    180g 1LP

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The Ellington performance is best remembered for Paul Gonsalves’ multiple choruses on “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue”, which brought the audience’s excitement level to its zenith and led to a resurgence in Duke’s popularity. He used to say in later years that he had been “born” at Newport ’56. From that point on he was a regular attraction at the festival (as well as many other similar festivals that began to appear later). Ellington tended to introduce new pieces at these events, and the album Festival Session was a studio recording that primarily featured tunes he had presented at the Newport and Playboy jazz festivals during 1959. Two songs have been added to the original album that complete the session.

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SIDE A:
1. PERDIDO (Juan Tizol-Duke Ellington-H. J. Lengsfelder-Ervin Drake) 4:37
2. COPOUT EXTENSION (Duke Ellington) 8:20
3. DUEL FUEL –Part I (Duke Ellington-Clark Terry) 2:45
4. DUEL FUEL –Part II (Duke Ellington-Clark Terry) 1:43
5. DUEL FUEL –Part III (Duke Ellington-Clark Terry) 6:18
6. V.I.P.’S BOOGIE (Duke Ellington) 2:58*
SIDE B:
1. IDIOM ’59 –Part I [Vapor] (Duke Ellington) 2:03
2. IDIOM ’59 –Part II (Duke Ellington) 4:36
3. IDIOM ’59 –Part III (Duke Ellington) 7:07
4. THINGS AIN’T WHAT THEY USED TO BE (Mercer Ellington-Ted Parsons) 3:01
5. LAUNCHING PAD (Duke Ellington) 7:37
6. JAM WITH SAM (Duke Ellington) 3:17*
*Bonus tracks: From the same session, not on the original LP.

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