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Piano in the Background album At first glance, one might think that this album is another in a long line of standard-issue Duke Ellington compilations. Piano in the Background CD music However, this is a release created by the artist himself, and it presents sessions from May and June of 1960 with one of the best orchestras Ellington ever assembled. (Only the previously unissued "Harlem Air Shaft," one of five bonus tracks on the CD, was recorded in '61. )
The title of this collection is also something of a misnomer, since PIANO IN ...See Full Description
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Piano in the Background music CDs. On paper it seems as if such titanic and distinctive musical personalities as Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane might not mix very well, but this stellar set, recorded live at Carnegie Hall in 1957, plays almost like a blissful extended ...
Piano in the Background songs. The historic live Town Hall sessions by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker from 1945 have been discovered on an acetate pressing, and are transferred with digital enhancement to CD. Why this concert was not issued initially is understandable, but Ira ...
Piano in the Background album. Gerry Mulligan's 1959 studio date with Johnny Hodges is one of the most satisfying sessions of his various meetings with different saxophonists for Verve, yet it was inexplicably the last to be made available on CD. With a hand-picked rhythm ...
YES! A MUST HAVE CD!!!! I agree! Highly recommended to every ELLINGTON fan on this PLANET!!!! By najponk
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ATTENTION ELLINGTON FANS: THIS IS THE ONE TO OWN I have always been particularly fond of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the recordings that were produced between 1956 and 1968, both studio and LIVE. That is because to me, during ... By sdhmusic
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