Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band (2003) more music like this

by Duke Ellington

Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band, covering the years 1939-1942 in the great composer and bandleader's career, is essentially the third time that RCA has issued this material on CD. The first was a botched job, appalling even, with its flattened-out, compressed sound, along with a chopped version of "Take the A-Train" and other sonic and ...

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The Ellington Legacy (1999) more music like this

by Duke Ellington

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The Duke at His Best (1999) more music like this

by Duke Ellington

A disc with a title like this always seems to be open to scrutiny and usually comes up far short of what the title boasts. But this one takes all its hits ("Take the 'A' Train," "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," "Caravan," "I'm Beginning to See the Light," "Caravan," "Perdido," "Things Ain't What They Used to Be," "Sophisticated Lady," "I Got It ...

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1969: All-Star White House Tribute (2002) more music like this

by Duke Ellington

One of the undeniable highlights of President Richard Nixon's administration was the 1969 White House gala celebrating Duke Ellington's 70th birthday, though jazz fans waited 33 years for their release. The all-star band includes trumpeters Clark Terry and Bill Berry, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, guitarist ...

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With Strings/Jump for Joy (1955) more music like this

by Cannonball Adderley

This CD reissues two complete LPs from near the beginning of altoist Cannonball Adderley's career. The first session is quite unusual for Adderley (who was completely unknown just a few months earlier) was given a very early opportunity to record with strings. He sounds fine on 11 standards and Terry Gibbs's "Lonely Dreams" but mostly sticks near ...

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With a Touch of Class (2002) more music like this

by Duke Ellington

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Ballad Essentials (2005) more music like this

by Kenny Burrell

Ballad Essentials compiles 12 remastered tracks recorded by jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell between 1958 and 2002, encompassing his tenure with Prestige, Fantasy, Contemporary, and Concord Jazz. The romantic themes include four Duke Ellington compositions, the Miles Davis-penned "Blue in Green," and Thelonious Monk's "'Round Midnight." The bop-based ...

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Duke Ellington: Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Sessions (2001) more music like this

by Duke Ellington/Ben Webster/Jimmy Blanton

When BMG issued the Never No Lament sides, a triple-CD package finally remastered with all the right stuff, it would have seemed that the jazz punters finally had a definitive version of the classic Jimmy Blanton/Ben Webster edition of Duke Ellington and His Orchestra. Not so. Spain's Definitive Classics has just issued an audiophile version of ...

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The Treasury Shows, Vol. 3 (2001) more music like this

by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

The third two-CD set of Duke Ellington Treasury Shows, which aired beginning in the closing months of World War II, features two complete consecutive weekly programs, including heavily scripted announcements by Bill Abernathy and the likewise, now somewhat amusing, bond pitches by Ellington himself (the politically correct of today will be shocked ...

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Ebony Rhapsody: The Great Ellington Vocalists (2001) more music like this

by Duke Ellington

Vocalists were usually given short shrift in Duke Ellington's Orchestra. After all, instead of competing with dozens of the best musicians in the business, the majority of solo-seeking singers would rather work for a leader willing to give them the features they needed to get their name out. And it usually worked -- most of the popular vocalists ...

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Happy Birthday Newport: 50 Swinging Years (2004) more music like this

by Various Artists

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Great Jazz Vocalists Sing Strayhorn & Ellington (1947) more music like this

by Various Artists

This CD sampler draws its 18 selections from the Blue Note, Pacific Jazz, Roulette, Solid State and Capitol vaults. There are two selections apiece from Nancy Wilson (her "Lush Life" is rather bombastic), Abbey Lincoln, June Christy and Sarah Vaughan; other singers include Dianne Reeves (a beautiful version of "I Got It Bad"), Lou Rawls, Lena ...

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Valentine (2005) more music like this

by Sally Mayes

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'Round Midnight (2003) more music like this

by Joan Steele

Joan Steele starts out on "St. Louis Blues" in dramatic fashion, singing unaccompanied. Eventually she is joined by her piano but still retains the dark and coolly emotional mood at a slow tempo. However after it becomes obvious that nearly every song on 'Round Midnight (whether it is a solo or trio number) is in the same mood and tempo, a certain ...

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Jump for Joy (1958) more music like this

by Cannonball Adderley

Something of a companion album to the earlier Julian Cannonball Adderley and Strings, Jump for Joy sounds like it could be outtakes from the same sessions in terms of its orchestral-quality arrangements, but this is very much its own album. Jump for Joy is Adderley's reinterpretation, circa 1958, of a Duke Ellington stage musical from 1941. A ...

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