Spanning over five decades (1923-1974), the Duke Ellington orchestra was nursery, proving ground and finishing school for dozens of jazzmen. Three of the greatest, Harry Carney, Mitchell “Booty” Wood, and Paul Gonsalves, here front all-star groups on three albums produced by celebrated jazz critic Stanley Dance. They add up to an engaging example of the unpretentious kind of jazz these musicians liked to play when they were “stretching out”: adventurous but not avant-garde, traditional but not old-fashioned, free-ranging in its moods and full of that sound of surprise which is the lifeblood of jazz—the kind of timeless music, beyond fad and fashion, forever associated with the Great Ellingtonians.
All sessions recorded in New York between September, 1960 and January 1961.
All sessions recorded in New York between September, 1960 and January 1961.
Album: Stanley Dance Presents The Music Of The Great Ellingtonians (disc 1)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:13
Size: 126.4 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 2011
[4:52] 1. Tree Of Hope
[3:43] 2. Blues For Blokes
[4:17] 3. Baby Blue
[3:48] 4. Jeepers Creepers
[4:03] 5. Rock Me Gently
[5:13] 6. Hand Me Down Love
[3:29] 7. Mabulala
[3:57] 8. Five O'clock Drag
[5:47] 9. Hang In There
[7:11] 10. New Cambridge Blues
[4:03] 11. Easin' On Down Piccadilly
[4:45] 12. Ohso
Album: Stanley Dance Presents The Music Of The Great Ellingtonians (disc 2)
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:37
Size: 152.5 MB
Styles: Big band
Year: 2011
Art: Front
[4:17] 1. Snowstorm
[4:32] 2. Blues In Bones
[3:49] 3. Sunday
[5:06] 4. Our Delight
[4:09] 5. Out Of Nowhere
[8:24] 6. Swallowing The Blues
[5:32] 7. London Broil
[4:46] 8. Midnight Sun
[6:17] 9. Just Squeeze Me
[5:51] 10. Blue Skies
[5:28] 11. Jeeps Blues
[8:22] 12. You Can Depend On Me
Stanley Dance Presents The Music Of The Great Ellingtonians (Disc 1) (Disc 2)