View basket “Historically Speaking – The Duke” has been added to your basket. Masterpieces By Ellington Duke Ellington SKU: PPANML4418 Barcode: 5060149622445 34.00 £34.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Pure Pleasure Released Date: 24th March 2017 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Re-mastering by: Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London When Ellington went into the studio in 1950 to record the longer tracks on this LP, his orchestra was a bridge between its late-1940’s configuration (the 5-man trumpet section) and its mid-1950’s personnel. The sax section had settled into the form it would have for most of the ensuing two decades (old-timers Hodges and Carney and newcomers Procope, Hamilton and Gonsalves); the trombone section had long-timer Lawrence Brown as well as Tyree Glenn and newcomer Quentin Jackson; and the drummer was still Sonny Greer, who had anchored the rhythm section since the beginning. Greer would retire at the end of the year, Hodges would defect for two years, Brown and Glenn would leave; Louis Bellson and Cat Anderson would join up and Ellington would begin to re-form. Ellington’s orchestra from 1953 on would be a great, swinging and sensitive one, but it would not make the same lush sound that this one did. The arrangements and orchestrations all bear the hallmarks of Ellington’s collaboration with Billy Strayhorn in the late 1940’s: they are lush, symphonic, impressionistic, and densely (and adventurously) harmonic. “Mood Indigo”, in particular, is a 15-minute tone-poem with shifting colors and key relationships as Ellington and Strayhorn bring the melody through a wide variety of guises, from Glenn’s wah-wah trombone solo to Shorty Baker’s lyrical waltz to orchestral and piano passages which do homage to the influence which Ravel and Stravinsky had on both of them. Great solos abound here and on the other tracks, most notably from Hodges, Brown, Hamilton, Gonsalves, Carney, trumpeters Baker and Ray Nance, and (most probably) Billy Strayhorn on piano, especially in “Mood Indigo” “The Tattooed Bride” is the only new piece from the original “Masterpieces by Ellington” LP, and it is a beauty. The others of the original tracks — “Sophistocated Lady” and “Solitude” — are not laid out as inventively in their harmonics or structure. Of the group, “Solitude” is perhaps the weakest, but this is a relative term. Ellington would go on to pen many more extended, symphonic works, but none would have quite the multicolored, impressionistic tone-pallate that these do. And Strayhorn’s presence would not be as pronounced in those future works as it is here: the orchestration and harmonies in particular bear his mark. These are masterpieces indeed: great works of art by two of our greatest composers/orchestrators, and played by one of the greatest orchestras in Afro-American music. Andrew R. Weiss Personnel: Duke Ellington, piano / Billy Strayhorn, piano/ Mercer Ellington, flugelhorn / Cat Anderson, Andrew Ford, Harold Baker, Nelson Williams, Ray Nance, trumpets / Quentin Jackson, Tyree Glenn, Lawrence Brown, trombones / Johnny Hodges, alto saxophone / Paul Gonsalves, tenor saxophone / Jimmy Hamilton, clarinet / Russell Procope, clarinet & alto saxophone /Wendell Marshall, bass /Sonny Greer, drums / Yvonne, vocals Recorded December 19th 1950 Artist Duke Ellington Genre Jazz Label Pure Pleasure Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Mood Indigo 2. Sophisticated Lady 3. The Tattooed Bride 4. 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