Jazz Violin Session

Jazz Violin Session

Jazz Violin Session

ASIN: B00061XA1E

Track Listings
 
1. Take the "A" Train
2. In a Sentimental Mood
3. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
4. Day Dream
5. Cotton Tail
6. Pretty Little One
7. Tricky's Licks
8. Blues in C
9. String Along With Strings
10. Limbo Jazz
11. Feeling of Jazz

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Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A long underrated and long deleted album/CD
 Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session
Duke Ellington
Manufacturer: Wounded Bird Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00061XA1E
Release Date: 2004-10-12

Tracks:

  1. Take the "A" Train
  2. In a Sentimental Mood
  3. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  4. Day Dream
  5. Cotton Tail
  6. Pretty Little One
  7. Tricky's Licks
  8. Blues in C
  9. String Along With Strings
  10. Limbo Jazz
  11. Feeling of Jazz

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A long underrated and long deleted album/CD.......2005-09-03

Duke made this recording back in early 1963 in Paris. Atlantic (the original label) didn't see fit to release it until 1977 (3 years after Ellington passed away). Let me tell you, it was one of the recordings that got me hooked on jazz. And to add insult to injury, the CD version didn't come out until 2004; what were record executives thinking? Anyway, it's finally here in CD form and it's great for lots of reasons.

For starters, the instrumentation: 2 violins, viola, piano, bass, drums, and with some brass on the 2nd half. Stephane Grappelli, Ray Nance, both on violin, and Svend Assussen on viola, handle the strings with superb ensemble work, accompaniment, and soloing. These guys prove that violins, violas, even cellos can swing with the best of them when they're in the right hands. It's also interesting to hear how each string player swings and improvises, but with a sound distinctive from the other 2.

Duke is right on tops of things directing the whole show from the piano chair. Ernie Shepperd, the bassist, provides solid bass lines and a wonderful syncronized vocal-bass solo, a la Slam Stewart, on Take the A Train, but he's humming and plucking instead of humming and bowing.

Lastly, there are combination of familiar and more obscure Ellington compositions in this collection. For those of you who know that Ellington is the greatest composer and one of the greatest pianists that America ever had, in any genre, this is an essential or near-essential CD to buy. Like all great jazz, it hasn't dated at all.

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