out july 10
― tylerw, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
this is insanely exciting
― Vic Perry, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
Seriously can't wait for this.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
Wow this will be great.
I have been going through a major Ellington binge for the last couple of months, I have barely listened to much else lately tbh
― xelab, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
waht
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
I didn't know much about Ellington other than his dad was a butler at the White House. I read a bit of the Terry Teachout book today and he portrays him very much as a brilliant last minute-meister who drove his band mad with mad with his consistent idle procrastination, rather than the driven musical Stakhanovite I was expecting. It was an amusing revelation for me(considering his 1700 compositions in 5 decades) that adds to his legend if anything.
― xelab, Wednesday, 22 April 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
Duke salutes the Beatles!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oCnFvz8YKc
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 9 August 2015 12:42 (eight years ago) link
https://youtu.be/0eaTmoPmJPU
Duke Ellington - Reflections In D -- a friend posted this.. apologies if it's already in the thread
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 9 August 2015 13:44 (eight years ago) link
"Well gentlemen, Sullivan's wardrobe department is letting me off the hook with the lace cuffs, but the rest of you are going to have to roll with it."
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Sunday, 9 August 2015 13:47 (eight years ago) link
I am really getting into Bonga off the Afro Bossa album recently.
― xelab, Sunday, 13 September 2015 00:36 (eight years ago) link
You thought the recently-discovered hi-fidelity Armstrong recordings were something?
Dig THIS!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEU1bIxZHDo
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
Digging it
― tylerw, Thursday, 21 April 2016 00:02 (eight years ago) link
Nice one!
― calzino, Thursday, 21 April 2016 00:09 (eight years ago) link
So much bass! Which is to say, there's bass. And guitar too. Really gives a sense of how the early rhythm section would have motored the live orchestra.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Thursday, 21 April 2016 17:19 (eight years ago) link
this is great: 15 minutes of the ellington tribute at the white house in 1969. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW9PdAY8_D0&feature=youtu.be
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 April 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
Wow! Thanks for posting that!
Always loved this exchange, after Ellington kissed Nixon four times:
Nixon: "Four kisses? Why four?"Ellington: "One for each cheek."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 28 April 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
so suave, flirting with Pat and accepting his Medal of Freedom with a shout-out to Strayhorn
<3
― Brad C., Thursday, 28 April 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
It must have felt good for him to go to the White House as a revered 20th century icon and thinking his old man used to occasionally work as a butler there to get by.
― calzino, Thursday, 28 April 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
that improv at 8:40...nobody in his league
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:03 (seven years ago) link
yeah totally!
a shout-out to Strayhornit's funny, i feel like it's become part of the Ellington "narrative" that Strayhorn didn't get the credit he deserved ... but I feel like on virtually every live recording I've heard, Duke gives him a shout out. (i know strayhorn might've been overshadowed by the Ellington genius mythos, but it doesn't seem to be Duke's fault anyway).
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
I'm loving his Three Suites today, especially his majestic peer gynt.
― calzino, Friday, 23 December 2016 16:00 (seven years ago) link
Finally remembered to play Blue Rose (the mono-LP-era R Clooney collabo). It's really good.
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 3 February 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link
There's something very hard to cover about Ellington. I'm part of a jazz facebook group that has a different theme each week where various musicians post their videos on that theme, and this week it's Duke Ellington. Somehow nearly everyone sounds dumb when playing Ellington tunes.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 10 May 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
https://dgwh4hty77sxy.cloudfront.net/9107-medium_zoomcrop/image.jpg
very fine is this, Strayhorn out of Ellington's shadow for an album and with it seems most of his band and Johnny Hodges.
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
bought a used copy of the Latin American Suite on RSD, what a stunning recordhis ability to synthesize latin music into what he did without resorting to cliche tropes or signifiers like "hey check it out - congas!" is really amazingsuch ambitious music, reminds me a bit of the "third stream" stuff I've heard but without a stick up its butt
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:16 (four years ago) link
his ability to synthesize latin music into what he did without resorting to cliche tropes or signifiers like "hey check it out - congas!" is really amazing
otm, and The Far East Suite is similarly brilliant in this regard. There's no "Hey, let's throw a sitar and/or koto into the arrangement TO PROVE WE WERE REALLY THERE." Those late '60s and early '70s suites are some of my favorite work of his.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
I need to track down Far East Suite what are the other ones?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:45 (four years ago) link
New Orleans Suite is a fucking masterpiece for starters.
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
The New Orleans Suite is great, as is The Private Collection, Volume 5 which includes two suites: "The Degas Suite," and "The River," the latter of which includes a theme later used on New Orleans Suite.
The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse is essential; if you like Latin American Suite, you'll love this.
There's a compilation called The Ellington Suites which includes The Queen's Suite (1959), The Goutelas Suite (1971), and The Uwis Suite (1972) -- not quite on the same level as Afro-Eurasian, but still pretty fascinating.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
love the suave intro by Duke on Afro-Eurasian Eclipse as well, it never gets old.
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Rikki tikki
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
Queens Suite is on the level of the others but I agree the other two suites on that cd are not quite.
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
all the Private Collection albums are excellent, especially the studio recordings
― Brad C., Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
xpsI should have mentioned you should check out Afro Bossa as well.
― calzino, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
yeah, private collection boxes are fantastic (and usually pretty cheap). recent ellington I've been getting into is the concert in the virgin islands (which confusingly is not a live record). great version of "chelsea bridge".
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
I have that and Afro Bossa on a weird 2fer but I have not really put them through their paces yet
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
picked up a nice copy of New Orleans Suite yesterday, wow....this lives up to my expectations
this is really intensely rewarding music
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
thanks everyone, been slowly picking some of these up and it's good to have recommendations
recently been listening to a lot of this one:
https://www.discogs.com/Duke-Ellington-An-Explosion-Of-Genius-1938-1940/release/2949550
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Monday, 3 June 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
Love so many of those tracks - got to know them on the excellent Braggin' in Brass album of his 1938 sides. "Pyramid" is an excellent cousin to "Caravan."
― bendy, Monday, 3 June 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
yeah "Pyramid" is really a standout there
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Monday, 3 June 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
just saw "anatomy of a murder" the other night, after long admiring the soundtrack. was VERY cool to see how the music was used in the film.
i really dug the scene from the club where ellington's jazz band can be seen playing. here they are:
https://imgur.com/Qvyjcb1
to the best of my knowledge that's L-R grady tate, jimmy woode, clark terry, jimmy hamilton.
is that right ? i would've thought sam woodyard would be playing drums, but this guy doesn't look anything like him.
also i like how ellington is called "pie-eye" in the film. cool bass drum design, too:
https://imgur.com/a/qgCuvNJ
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
oh FUCK
ok here we are:
https://i.imgur.com/Qvyjcb1.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/YRd9fHp.jpg
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
Cool. I need to watch it too.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
really love cootie williams' vocals on this tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O9bnB4_9UYPECKIN' - Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra, vocal by Cootie Williams (1937)
― budo jeru, Monday, 11 May 2020 04:06 (three years ago) link
that doesn't look like grady tate to me. Wiki says the soundtrack is James Johnson on drums. Having trouble finding a good pic of him to compare.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 11 May 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link
Yes to Peckin'. My fav of his jive songs.
Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA1gfjvpFOE
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link
A new series has launched called Ellington In Order, a remastering of just about everything Duke recorded.That’s good!There is no physical release; it’s streaming-only.That’s bad.https://open.spotify.com/album/4ornuDeqxrpKPMnh5zKxNN?si=5hGa-gJJQdCX-j92fEV8yQ
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 16 June 2023 20:56 (ten months ago) link
hmmm — yeah, seems like they could do one of those 100+ CD sets a la Beethoven or Bach ... it'd probably sell!
― tylerw, Friday, 16 June 2023 21:03 (ten months ago) link
Exactly — and considering the target audience for Ellington isn’t likely to be listening via streaming, a big CD box a) would presumably be cheap to produce, and b) would sell.But at least this material is finally getting remastered, especially his ‘20s sides — I don’t think the 1991 OKeh Ellington set has ever gotten a sonic upgrade.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 16 June 2023 21:23 (ten months ago) link