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Top Ten List: Duke Ellington's Top Ten Albums

Duke Ellington, the legendary jazz composer, pianist, and bandleader, released numerous albums throughout his illustrious career. It's challenging to narrow down his extensive discography to just ten, but here are some essential Duke albums that showcase his incredible talent and contribution to :

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Steve Lacy - Evidence (with Don Cherry)

Apart from some weirdly obvious edits on a few tracks here (always heading into the final restatements), this is a great sounding recording of Lacy, Cherry and his accompanying musicians -- Billy Higgins and Carl Brown -- playing a bunch of Monk songs, plus two from Ellington.

Another great prssing from QRP, too. If only the Mitski album had been pressed this well...

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Early morning departure from DCA: only right that the background music in the airport is an tune
Prelude to a Kiss - Danny Grissett shazam.com/track/373187405/pre

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Mandatory Christmas soundtrack at SLR HQ: the Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker Suite.

youtube.com/watch?v=FEU587HUiR

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Listening now. Far East Suite. Genius. @jazz

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Great rehearsal with Art Baron today for our gig in Long Branch, NJ on Sunday. It's always cool to realize the book you are playing was originally written for and played by an Ellingtonian! (of course Art is as well)

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Tootin' Through the Roof by Duke Ellington ans his orchestra

In 1939 Duke had two fantastic trumpet players, Cootie Williams and Rex Stewart. Cootie would leave the band shortly after this was recorded (he would rejoin in the early sixties)

Basically a concerto grosso for two trumpets, with a first solo on alto sax by the great Johnny Hodges. Notice the swell intro by Harry Carney on baritone sax.

youtube.com/watch?v=mbzFqRWNHr

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@jastsa @classicalmusic
great discussion! so hard to pick 7 but here goes:






ellington is my favorite composer bar none, but he isn't often considered a 'classical' composer, and i'll just say that if gershwin (whose songs i infinitely prefer to his long-form works) is classical, so is ellington - if having done a longform work is a criterion, 'black, brown and beige' checks the box (and listen to the 50s version with mahalia jackson).

strong seconds:


















#bach #beethoven #chopin #ellington #haydn #schubert #weill #bachcpe #barber #duparc #faure #grondahl #massenet #monteverdi #mozart #nikoleyeva #poulenc #prokofiev #rota #schostakovich #schumannclara #schumannrobert #stravinsky #tchaikovsky #vonbingen #wolf

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