Cotton Club Nights

Cotton Club Nights Artist: Duke Ellington
Label: Arpeggio Jazz
Category: Music



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


UPC: 658028850925
EAN: 0658028850925
ASIN: B00005BJF9


Release Date: 2001-06-12

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Tracks:

  1. If You Were In My Place
  2. Oh! Babe! Maybe Someday
  3. If Dreams Come True
  4. Harmony In Harlem
  5. Dinah
  6. You Went To My Head
  7. Three Blind Mice
  8. Downtown Uproar
  9. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
  10. Dinah's In A Jam
  11. Harmony In Harlem
  12. At Your Beck And Call
  13. The Gal From Joe's
  14. Riding On A Blue Note
  15. If Dreams Come True
  16. If Dreams Come True
  17. Birmingham Breakdown
  18. Rose Room
  19. Echoes Of Harlem
  20. Untitled
  21. Untitled
  22. Untitled
  23. Untitled
  24. Bonus Track

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Good music from Duke's heyday.......2002-11-17

This CD contains most, not all, of the recordings known to have been made at the Cotton Club between the 24th of March and the 5th of July 1938. They are on site radio broadcasts and not, for the most part, true "live" recordings. Nonetheless they exude the enthousiasm and spontaneity which sometimes marks live performances.
The CD actually includes 24, not 19 tracks. The unlisted tracks are, in order: It's the dreamer in me; Ev'ry day; Lost in meditation; Prelude in c-sharp minor (a take-off on Rachmaninoff); Rockin' in rhythm. Note that a couple of titles are second performances of the same composition. Two of the performances are by smaller ensembles featuring Cootie Williams or Rex Stewart. They are "Downtown Uproar" and "Ev'ry Day", respectively.
Sound quality is good for the period and circumstances and certainly good enough to demonstrate what the band sounded like. Ivie Anderson is extraordinary, at least equaling her (mostly off-mike) performance at Fargo in 1940. The sometimes blase Lawrence Brown is in top form here, and Johnny Hodges is as always memorable.

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