Jubilee Stomp is an acceptable substitute if Jungle Nights in Harlem is not available.
― Oilyrags, Monday, 21 January 2008 03:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Damnit hes prolific. I havn't heard any of this.
― our work is never over, Monday, 21 January 2008 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Jungle Nights and Jubilee Stomp are early stuff. On Bluebird, nice and cheap and very hard swinging and excellent.
― Oilyrags, Monday, 21 January 2008 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I am really enjoying The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, one of Ellington's last albums. I know it's supposed to be African-influenced -- and it is -- but it sounds even more rock-influenced, to me. Dark, thumping and rhythmic. Very unlike what I expect of Ellington (OTOH, I'm not all that familiar with his bread-and-butter big band work). Anyway, great disc. (n.1).
------------- (n.1) I did cringe at the corny spoken-word opening of the album, tho. Minor quibble, I guess.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 5 August 2008 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, i LOVE that spoken word intro. as has been noted in this thread, there's a ton of later period (60s-70s) Ellington that is amazingly good. One I didn't see mentioned is the piano/bass album with Ray Brown called This One's For Blanton. Sort of an album length sequel to the duets Duke did with Blanton way back when. The New Orleans Suite (Hodges' last album, I think) has some great moments as well.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I have this and the remaster sounds fine to me, as good as you could expect for this period
I've kind of changed my mind on this. I think they did kind of screw it up - though it's still listenable if you turn the treble down a couple of notches on your stereo.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, i think maybe the first disc of the B|W Band comp is kind of dodgy, esp. on headphones. I've got an old double LP with a lot of the same stuff and it sounds better to me, even on my crappy turntable. That said, those recordings would be great recorded on a cell phone. goddam, some of it is unbelievably good.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I am really enjoying The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse
YES.
"Didjeridoo" is quickly becoming a tune I feel really gypped that I never got to play with my jazz combo in college
― TOMBOT, Friday, 24 October 2008 07:15 (fifteen years ago) link
emusic subscribers who don't have this record, you have wasted a month.
Tom, you should post here too:Ellington as pianist
Matos DJs on Wednesdays here and plays something from The Far East Suite almost every week.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 24 October 2008 08:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been listening to The Far East Suite pretty much nonstop, with a couple of plays of The Seattle Concert thrown in. Sound is rough, as it's a 1952 show (and Ellington's first LP as such), but really sweet. Clark Terry is really nice on "Perdido."
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I should say the album is really sweet, not the rough sound.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Duke Ellington becomes first African-American on U.S. coin
― Jazzbo, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
this is great -
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gbfqxqejldse
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Eee, that does look good. Also expensive.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Jazz man is first African-American to solo on U.S. circulating coin
― double bird strike (gabbneb), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been saying for years we need to get politicians off our money and artists on. Nice work, DC! We could get off to no better start.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
http://dcist.com/2009/01/dc_duke_ellington_quarter_released.php
Oh god, the comments.
"I looked up Duke Ellington"
Wow. Says it all, really.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
[6] | snoopydog
Who is Duke Ellington and why should I care about him? Are there any other individuals on the quarters that I missed? Usually it's some stupid mountain or some wild life from the state. Who's Duke Ellington? Was he the architect of DC? I thought that guy was French. Ellington does not sound French to me.
― deej da 5'9 (deej), Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I realize that DC isn't exactly the center of intellectualism but really, a piano player who likes white suits?
― Øystein, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
This is why I have instituted a strict "DO NOT READ COMMENTS ON INTERNET" policy. Talk about douchebags.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
a funny thing to post on an Internet message board, yeah, but I'm talking about newspaper comments, etc.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 18:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Beat out Benjamin Banneker and Frederick Douglass. I guess I could live with any of those on a quarter. I still would like to replace Andrew Jackson on the 20 with someone a little less....genocidal, though.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Charlie Parker never committed any indian massacres, did he?
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 24 February 2009 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
<a href=http://www.sendspace.com/file/oc5mla>Shhhh!</a>
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
What is that, video of Charlie Parker committing indian massacres? Whilst playing "Cherokee"?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Jubilee Stomp
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
lol, just got this bizarre email from Amazon:
Dear Amazon.com Customer,
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?????????????????
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Me too, discussion over here
CD PRICES: Did they ever become as affordable as the vinyl/cassettes they replaced? Why?/Why not?
It's a "burn on demand" CD, even
― bendy, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:20 (fourteen years ago) link
See also http://www.amazon.com/2007-2012-Building-Excluding-Cafeteria-Restaurant/dp/0497503093
― bendy, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Customers Who Bought Related Items Also Bought
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― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Duke puts it on wax.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjKlFFp4-IE
Like making waffles.
― bendy, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I bought a cheapy 3-disc Ellington set the other day and it is totally ruling my life.
― GayQuil (The Reverend), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 06:32 (fourteen years ago) link
your saying so inspired me to listen to the yale concert, which re-blew my damn mind
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 09:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Once I get my sound back, I'll have to track that down.
― i am giving you the viking of compliments (The Reverend), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link
whenever this thread is revived, i worry that duke died.
― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
nobody tell amatuerist what happened, i'm afraid it might break his heart
― i am giving you the viking of compliments (The Reverend), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
longish piece in the NYorker on Duke, http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/05/17/100517crat_atlarge_pierpont?currentPage=all
― H in Addis, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
just saw that! amazing photo. was going to ask if anyone had read that new book -- i was just flipping through it at the bookstore.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Keep eyeing that one in the bookstore, but haven't taken the bait yet.
― Generation Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"Blazing Saddles" was made in 1974!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
??
― Generation Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
He's in it.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
no he ain't, that's count basie
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
oh.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a good scene though. http://www.morethings.com/fan/blazing_saddles/blazing-saddles-490.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Basie & feel like he doesn't get enough love these days
― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Basie does seem sort of out of fashion it's true.
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
he's a little less varied when placed against Ellington, and a bit less of a monumental, American hero kind of figure ... but when it comes to swinging, he can kick Ellington's band's ass any day. Duke probably would've agreed.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
its a Stooges vs. Stones sort of thing. Basie's sixties stuff with Neil Hefti has a late-career shine that's completely different than Ellington, but just as neat.
― bendy, Wednesday, 12 May 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Just now seeing: In Order Volume 1 (1927-1928)---43 songs, 2 hrs. 11 min.--is also on YouTubeMusic; maybe they've got the rest, or will have:https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l_NlTYi1pu5LbIIUR-eDP6MPfBuUSMJD4
― dow, Thursday, 29 June 2023 23:22 (ten months ago) link