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Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book [Verve] by Stuff Smith Duke Ellington Johnny Hodges Barney Kessel Ella Fitzgerald Ben Webster Oscar Peterson Herb Ellis Clark Terry Dizzy Gillespie Billy Strayhorn Harry Carney (Vinyl, 1957)

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Record LabelNot Now Music

UPC5060403742889

eBay Product ID (ePID)22050173549

Product Key Features

FormatVinyl

Release Year1957

GenrePop Vocal

TypeLP

ArtistStuff Smith, Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Barney Kessel, Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Strayhorn, Harry Carney

Release TitleSings the Duke Ellington Song Book [Verve]

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ReviewsDown Beat (5/15/58) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "...She seems wholly free, soaring, and swooping with the band....An absolute must in any library..."

Additional informationContains over 40 songs and a 32 page booklet. Discs 1 and 2 contain all of the material on the 3-disc DUKE ELLINGTON SONG BOOK collection. Disc 3 features previously unreleased recordings of Ellington and Strayhorn rehearsing with Fitzgerald and the orchestra. Personnel includes: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Dizzy Gillespie, Herb Ellis, Clark Terry, Ben Webster, Harry Carney, Oscar Peterson, Johnny Hodges, Billy Strayhorn, Ray Brown, Paul Gonsalves. Recorded in Hollywood, California and New York, New York in 1956 and 1957. Includes essay by Patricia Willard. This is part of Verve's Master Edition series. Ella Fitzgerald's outstanding songbook series has become an institution unto itself. This 1957 effort is distinguished from Fitzgerald's other songbooks in that it is the only album in which the composer whose work she is singing actively participates. In fact, these recordings are packed with some of the key figures in 20th century jazz. As if Ella and Duke weren't enough, Ellington's arranger/composer Billy Strayhorn, guest musicians Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson, and brilliant record producer Norman Granz all have a hand in the proceedings. And what better backing band could one want than Duke's orchestra? The usual suspects -- Jimmy Hamilton, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney, and Sam Woodyard, among others -- contribute fine performances throughout. Duke's spectacular catalog dazzles, and his sprightly, lush textures are transfigured under Fitzgerald's warm-timbred voice and elegant, precise delivery. Included here are classics like "Rockin' in Rhythm," "Caravan," "Satin Doll," "Sophisticated Lady," "Prelude to a Kiss," and "It Don't Mean a Thing...," each tune as familiar as it is delightful to hear in this new context.

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