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:   Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series) (2022)

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

Label:  Impulse!/Verve Records

Rating:  *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side A:jazz

 1. Limbo Jazz (5:20)

 2.  Mood Indigo (5:55)

 3.  Ray Charles' Place (4:04)

 4.  Wanderlust (4:57)

 

Side B:

 1.  You Dirty Dog (4:19)

 2.  Self Portrait (Of The Bean) (3:50)

 3.  The Jeep Is Jumpin' (4:40)

 4.  The Ricitic (5:49)

Personnel:

Duke Ellington:  Piano

Coleman Hawkins:  Tenor Saxophone

Johnny Hodges:  Alto Saxophone

Harry Carney:  Baritone Saxophone Bass Clarinet

Lawrence Brown:  Trombone

Ray Nance:  Cornet, Violin

Aaron Bell:  Double Bass

Sam Woodyard:  Drums

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins is an album by Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins, originally released on January 1963 by Impulse!, remastered and reissued on May 13, 2022 by Impulse!/Verve Records.  180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl.