The Strayhorn Touch

The Strayhorn Touch Artist: Duke Ellington
Label: Bmg Special Product
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 755174453328
EAN: 0755174453328
ASIN: B000001U38


Release Date: 1997-11-18

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Tracks:

  1. Take The 'A' Train
  2. Day Dream
  3. Clementine
  4. Blood Count
  5. Chelsea Bridge
  6. Raincheck
  7. Johnny Come Lately
  8. Strange Feeling
  9. I Don't Mind
  10. Drawing Room Blues

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Another bootleg from phony UK record labels.......2006-07-29

If you are interested in this album, get the real copy from Collectables Records. This is a cheap bootleg. Another excellent album of Strayhorn compositions is '...and His Mother Called Him Bill' recorded by the Duke Ellington Orchestra within a few months of Billy Strayhorn's untimely death. Keep the production of music from Duke's Reprise period alive by buying the albums from the label that actually owns the rights to them!

I give five stars for the music.

3 out of 5 stars A Bargain with a Catch.......2000-04-16

These kinds of albums always mystify me. They're put out there for the mass-market audience, cheaply priced to attract the average K-Mart shopper. But the music, as great at it is, is likely to be fully appreciated only by the Ellington specialist and aficionado, since it is from the early 40's and is likely to be the least accessible Ellington to neophyte ears. And to compound the problem, there's not a single program note provided for any of the songs, so even a die-hard Ellington fan is likely to be frustrated (can it be so much added expense for the producer to provide dates, names of musicians, etc?). In any case, the album, especially in the dirt-cheap cassette version, is a golden find for the impoverished Ellington scholar who knows the history behind the recordings and who had come to the local K-Mart to pick up some motor oil.

Music CD:

  1. Inside Life ~ Incognito
  2. Old Songs ~ Bennie Wallace
  3. Blue Bossa ~ Eddie Daniels, Bucky Pizzarelli
  4. Improvisie ~ Paul Bley
  5. Look into the Flower ~ Various Artists
  6. How I Feel
  7. The Power and the Glory: A Salute to Louis Armstrong ~ Jim McNeely and the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra featuring Leroy Jones
  8. Live in London ~ Ben Webster
  9. Across the Blue Meridian ~ Pieces of Eight
  10. Free Wheelin': The Music of Lee Morgan ~ Claudio Roditi

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Live on Trilogy Compilation ~ Various Artists

Cyber Messiah ~ Various Artists

Live...One Nation Underground ~ Union Underground

The Best of Cuddly Toys ~ Cuddly Toys

Living or Dying ~ Allen Nivens

Chronicles ~ The Velvet Underground

Love Metal/Government Issue Rock N' Roll ~ Tchort

Over the Rainbow ~ Band of Oz

Get into It ~ The Egyptian Lover

Kid Get Hip ~ J. Rawls