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:   Midnight In Paris  (2016)
Genre:  Jazz, Swing, Big Band, Orchestral Jazz, Standards, Modern Big Band, Progressive Jazz
Label:  Not Now Music
Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side 1:

 1.  Under Paris Skies  (2:41)
 2.  I Wish You Love  (3:50)
 3.  Mademoissile de Paris   (3:20)
 4.  Comme Ci Comme Ca  (3:03)
 5.  Speak To Me Of Love  (2:02)
 6.  A Midnight In Paris  (3:33)
 7.  (All Of A Sudden) My Heart Sings  (2:03)

Side 2:

 1.  Guitar Amour  (4:57)
 2.  The Petite Waltz  (4:14)
 3.  Paris Blues  (4:21)
 4.  Javapachacha (Apache)  (3:56)
 5.  No Regrets  (2:12)
 6.  The River Seine  (2:14)

Personnel:

Duke Ellington:   Piano on Tracks:  1-3, 6 7 Side 1, 5, 6 Side 2
Billy Strayhorn:  Piano on Tracks:  4, 5 Side 1, 1-4 Side 2
Ray Nance:  Cornet
Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker:  Trumpet on Tracks:  1, 4, 5 Side 1, 1-4 Side 2
Bill Berry:  Trumpet on Tracks:  2. 5, 7 Side 1, 1, 4-6 Side 2
Roy Burrowes:  Trumpet on Tracks:  1-3, 6, 7 Side 1, 5, 6 Side 2
Howard McGhee:  Trumpet on Tracks:  4 Side 1, 2, 4 Side 2
Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper:  Trombone on Tracks:  1-3, 6, 7 Side 1, 5, 6 Side 2
Lyle Cox:  Trombone on Tracks:  4, 5 Side 1, 1-4 Side 2
Chuck Connors:  Bass Trombone 
Jimmy Hamilton:  Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone
Johnny Hodges:  Alto Saxophone
Russell Procope:  Alto Saxophone, Clarinet
Paul Gonsalves:  Tenor Saxophone
Harry Carmey:  Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
Aaron Bell:  Bass
Sam Woodyard:  Drums

Midnight In Paris is an album buy Duke Ellington, originally released in 1962 by Columbia Records, remastered and reissued on June 24, 2016 by Not Now Music.