Duke Ellington

Artist:  Duke Ellington
Birth Name:  Edward Kennedy Ellington
Born:  April 29, 1899.  Washington, D.C. USA
Died:  May 24, 1974 (Aged 75).  New York City, New York. USA
Genre:  Jazz, Swing, Big Band, Orchestral Jazz, Standards, Modern Big Band, Progressive Jazz
Occupation:  Bandleader, Musician, Composer, Conductor, Songwriter
Instruments: Piano

Duke Ellington was an American Composer, Pianist and Bandleader of a Jazz Orchestra, was based on New York City from the mid-1920s onward together continuously for almost 50 years, and was the most important composer in the history of Jazz.  Some of the musicians who were members of Duke Ellington's Orchestra, such as Saxophonist Johnny Hodges.  He wrote more than one thousand compositions.  He was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1999.

Title:   Intrinsic Explorations Of 1960s  (2019)
Genre:  Jazz, Swing, Big Band, Orchestral Jazz, Standards, Modern Big Band, Progressive Jazz
Label: Squatty Roo Records
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  The New Mood Indigo  (4:43)
 2.  Jump For Joy (feat. Vocals by Ray Nance)  (3:10) 
 3.  The Feeling Of Jazz   (4:46)
 4.  West Indian Pancake  (3;57)
 5.  Veldt Amour  (2:50)
 6.  Wings And Things (2:31)
 7.  In The Alley  (3:45)
 8.  Sassy  (3;34)
 9.  Ugh  (2:56)
10. Portrait Of Pea  (2:58)
11. Mack The Knife (feat. Vocals by Ray Nance)  (2:24)

Personnel:

Duke Ellington:  Piano on Tracks:  1-6, 11
Chick Corea:  Piano on Tracks:  7-10
Johnny Hodges:  Alto Saxophone 
Harry Carney:  Baritone Saxophone on Tracks:  1, 3, 5, 11
Jerome Richardson:  Baritone Saxophone on Track 4
Paul Gonsalves:  Tenor Saxophone on Track
Cootie Williams:  Trumpet on Tracks:  1, 4-6
Louis Bellson:  Drums on Tracks:  7-10
Sam Woodyard:  Drums on Tracks:  1-6, 11

Intrinsic Explorations Of 1960s is his own musical ideas and projects recordings from 1962-1966 of Duke Ellington, with the hope and intent that a label would pick them up, as albums and the commercially release them, released on June 21, 2019 by Squatty Roo Records.