The Best of Early Ellington [MCA, 1996]
Although it doesn't approach RCA's long-lost Flaming Youth and touches fewer famous classics than Columbia's fainter, cleaner two-CD Okeh Ellington, this warm, scratchy disc leads out of his tangled discography into his '20s music, which traffics in a rinky-dink novelty more rock and roll than his glossy big-band dance charts. At first only a few familiar tunes stand out from the delicate audacity and raucous detail of the sound. But soon every theme kicks in, every silky clarinet solo and bumptious plunger mute. Ellington called this jungle music because white folks would never have believed he heard the modern city so much better than they did. They learned, kind of. A
DUKE, DUKE, DUKE
DUKE OF EARL
DUKE, DUKE, DUKE
/mu doesn't know anything about Duke Ellington, what was the point of this thread?
>>126940381 (OP)>traffics in a rinky-dink novelty more rock and roll than his glossy big-band dance chartsI knew there would be something along those lines the instant I saw the title.
>>126940663some jazz general posters might
>>126940663I love Duke, especially his album with Coltrane
Duke's final-ever recording. Not the best way he could gone out.
Money Jungle [Blue Note, 1962]
As a fan of Ellington's 1972 This One's for Blanton session with bassist Ray Brown, I resisted this earlier date with bassist Charlie Mingus and drummer Max Roach. I feared that while paired solely with supportive pre-modernist Brown Ellington was free to wax literal about such solid tunes as "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" and "Sophisticated Lady," showboating aesthete Mingus would depth-bomb the proceedings with his genius. But instead, Mingus hews the course, his lines venturing about harmonically with no appreciable loss of bottom--Roach's drums do at least as much bombing. So both sidemen-as-equals complicate rather than undermine the tracks' melodic allure as Ellington honors the songs, at his most disruptive like Monk in a mellow mood. But I must add that the four perfectly OK bonus alternate takes on the CD release, the 1962 session's third iteration, disperse the impact of an album that initially omitted the three fine new Ellington blues that surfaced second time around. My iTunes gets an 11-track version. A-
>>126940879He died less than a year after this came out, I guess he died of shame as it slowly dawned on him that he agreed to record this thing.
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>>126940959Wut? Miller didn't have anything to do with Ellington. He was on CBS for a while in the 50s but as part of their jazz division which Miller wasn't involved with.
>>126940969he made some ok albums on Columbia but they didn't promote them so the things basically died on the vine and got no attention
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>>126940879aka "wow look I recorded an album with Duke fucking Ellington am I a serious singer now?"
>>126940992Ok as I said I'm not super versed in DE's output so I'll take your word for it.
theres some old niggas n this mf
>>126941066https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington_discography#Studio_albums
Here you go.
>>126940879>died less than a year after this came outguess he died of embarrassment when it slowly dawned on him that he agreed to record this thing
>>126941168thank god when Auntie Tezza did that ersatz country album a bit after this it wasn't a duet with George Jones or something because she might have killed him too
>>126940897>1962but that was many years before he started reviewing album?
>>126941062That works on the same principal as Olivia Rodrigo performing with Robert Smith. "Please treat me as a real artist now? Please?"
>>126941295I think he bought/first heard the album back in '62.
>>126940879https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgatF1bpFiU
>>126941895https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myRc-3oF1d0
Move aside, let the professionals handle this one.
>>126941924They did another rendition of this on the Live at the Cote D'Azur album from '67 but I'm not so much a fan of that one because Ella plays the performance up for yucks and like a lot of live albums it's an effect that was probably entertaining if you were there but doesn't translate well onto record.
>>126941895This is painful. She sounds like a chipmunk.
>>126942210that lady was built strictly for novelty pop songs, anything beyond that was out of her reach
>>126941895The title of the song literally means what it means here. I take the more cynical view that Ellington just wanted a quick easy payday and no longer gave a fuck by that point.
>>126946227yeah, easy money to pad his retirement account
why did this guy give straight As to all of miles 70s fusion shit?
>>126948409He's not an autistic genre cop
>>126948426it doesn't make ssense, those records are everything that should piss him off. i think he's a weener
Ahem. Miles was a rich kid and scene tourist.
Ellington's catalog spans almost half a century and is absolutely huge, a convoluted maze of recordings, collabs, and numerous bands beginning in 1924 when he cut four discs for RCA and ending with the unfortunate It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing album discussed above.
