View basket “Historically Speaking – The Duke” has been added to your basket. Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival 1969-1973 (The Lost Recordings) Duke Ellington SKU: TLR 2204041V Barcode: 3516628393310 TBC £TBC Genre: Jazz Label: The Lost Recordings Released Date: 11th September 2023 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Duke Ellington — Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival 1969-1973 180-gram 1LP Gold foil and debossing on soft-touch cover Printed inner sleeve; pressed at Optimal in Germany On Nov. 8, 1969,on the stage of the Berlin Philharmonic’s main hall, the Duke, whose portrait is the poster of the Jazztage Festival celebrating his 70th birthday, slowly joined his piano. His orchestra was at the helm, adorned with a gleaming section, some of whom have accompanied him for 30 years, such as Cootie Willams and Cat Anderson. Legendary saxophonists Paul Gonsalves and Johnny Hodges and Russell Procope were also present. In a sort of rattle, the Duke launched “La plus Belle Africaine.” A baroque but perfectly mastered mixture of sunny colors captured during a tour in Dakar, launched by the solo saxophone and then taken up with flashes of inventiveness by all or part of the band. The tone is set. Cat Anderson launched into a furious “El Gato” which shook the audience with its creaking, deliberate deconstruction, evoking the revolutionary, fragmentary and unfinished gestures of Thelonious Monk or Cecil Taylor. A studied contrast with the gentle continuation of “I Can’t Get Started,” just before the 43-second parenthesis of “Caravan,” which is a mischievous link to the flamboyant “Satin Doll” that masterfully punctuates this concert. In 1973, a few months before his death, Duke returned to Berlin in a formation based on his trio (Joe Benjamin on double bass and Quinten “Rocky” White Jr. on drums), joined by Harold Johnson on trumpet, the clarinettist and baritone saxophonist Harry Carney — and by his long-time sidekick, the tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves. Duke Ellington gives his piano a central place here, making it both the driving force of the ensemble and its harmonic and rhythmic backbone. In the blues that opens the concert, we hear Debussy. Take the A train’ follows. The Duke likes changes of mood. Only, here and there, touches of discontinuous speech remind us how sagaciously the Duke was able to draw on the audacious harmonies of his contemporaries. And then he dares to do everything. Like offering his band the rhythmic virtuosity of Baby Laurence on tap dance in “Tap Dance”. The magic works. The success is total. Two concerts in Berlin, two facets of a poetic universe, two visions of an alchemist who knew how to draw with lightness but also with a mixture of jubilation and authority, from the harmonic sources of all music and which make so relevant the formula he loved: “there are only two kinds of music: good and bad”. We have had the extreme privilege of resurrecting the better one. Artist Duke Ellington Genre Jazz Label The Lost Recordings Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country France Track Listings Side A 1. Piano Improvisation No. 1 2. Take the "A" Train 3. Pitter Panther Patter 4. Sophisticated Lady 5. Introduction by Baby Laurence 6. Tap Dance Side B 1. The Most Beautiful African 2. El Gato 3. I Can't Get Started 4. Caravan 5. 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