Wycliffe Gordon - The Intimate Ellington: Ballads & Blues

Bitrate: 320K/s

Time: 71:57

Size: 164.7 MB

Styles: Trombone jazz

Year: 2013

Art: Front

[6:35] 1. Pie Eye's Blues

[6:06] 2. Jeep's Blues

[6:59] 3. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

[7:59] 4. Creole Love Call

[7:28] 5. Stevie

[6:56] 6. The Intimacy Of The Blues

[5:13] 7. Lotus Blossom

[7:59] 8. Something Sexual

[8:20] 9. Sophisticated Lady

[8:16] 10. Caravan

On his eighth Criss Cross leader date, Wycliffe Gordon distills his exhaustive knowledge of the oeuvre of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on a well crafted, ten-piece program spanning a timeline from 1927 (Creole Love Call) to 1967 (The Intimacy Of The Blues). Throughout the proceedings, which explore a broad array of flavors, Gordon – spurred by a killer rhythm section of pianist Aaron Diehl, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Alvin Atkinson – plays with characteristic effervescence and tonal creativity, matched by Adrian Cunningham on saxophones and woodwinds and, on several selections, the soulful violin virtuoso Zach Brock and vocalist Dee Daniels.”

The Intimate Ellington: Ballads & Blues

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