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.

Artist:   Alice Babs & Duke Ellington

Title:  Serenade To Sweden  (2016)

Genre:  Jazz, Swing, Big Band, Orchestral Jazz, Standards, Modern Big Band, Progressive Jazz

Label:  Real Gone Music

Rating:   *****

Format:  CD

Tracks:

 1.  Serenade To Sweden  (3:21)

 2.  The Boy In My Dreams  (2:38)

 3.  Stoona  (3:01)

 4.  La De Doody Doo  (2:19)

 5.  Strange Visitor  (2:12)

 6.  Azure  (2:53)

 7.  Come Sunday  (5:02)

 8.  C Jam Blues  (2:43)

 9.  I Didn't Know About You  (4:20)

10. Satin Doll  (2:46)

11. Take Love Easy  (3:28)

12. Babsie  (1:52)

13. (I Want) Something To Live For  (2:56)

14. I'm Beginning To See The Light  (2:43)

15. Untitled Lullaby  (2:26)

Personnel:

Duke Ellington:  Piano on Tracks:  1-11, 13, 14

Alice Babs:  Vocals

Billy Strayhorn:  Piano on Track 12

Kenny Clarke:  Bass on Tracks:  1-4, 6-8, 10-13

Gilbert Rovere:  Bass on Tracks:  5, 9, 14

Sam Woodyard:  Drums

Serenade To Sweden is an album by Alice Babs and Duke Ellington, originally in 1966 by Reprise Records, remastered and reissued released on July 23, 2016 by Real Gone Music.