Happy Birthday, Duke! the Birthday Sessions, Vol. 4

Happy Birthday, Duke! the Birthday Sessions, Vol. 4 Artist: Duke Ellington
Label: Delta
Category: Music



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


UPC: 018111578622
EAN: 0018111578622
ASIN: B000001VTZ


Release Date: 1992-04-10

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Tracks:

  1. Coffee & Kisses
  2. Johnny Come Lately
  3. (Maybe I Should) Change My Ways
  4. Primping At The Prom
  5. Band Call
  6. Satin Doll
  7. Blue Jean Beguine
  8. Tulip Or Turnip (Tell Me, Tell Me, Dream Face)
  9. Honeysuckle Rose
  10. Theme For Trambeam
  11. Blue Moon

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Dance music after the end of the big band world.......2003-02-21

This is good but not outstanding Ellington from what many consider his fallow period, the contract with Capitol Records, roughly corresponding to the time when Duke had to get by without the great alto soloist, Johnny Hodges. The music on this disc was recorded at a dance in Portland, Oregon on April 29th, 1954.
Ray Nance, Clark Terry, Willie Cook and Cat Anderson make up the trumpet section; Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, & John Sanders the trombones. Wendell Marshall (Jimmy Blanton's cousin) is the bassist with Dave Black on drums. Reed players are Harry Carney, Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gonsalves, & Rick Henderson (a young altoist with strong bop proclivities, he does not solo on this collection).
Duke himself does not appear on the first four numbers. The material derives from the Forties as well as the early Fifties. Particularly spirited is Ray Nance's performance on the oddly affecting Ellington pop song "Tulip or Turnip", a version of "Honeysuckle Rose" featuring Jimmy Hamilton on clarinet, and an extended "Band Call" by Duke himself. As always, it is a pleasure to hear Duke's orchestration, for example in the non-Ellington piece "Coffee and Kisses".

Music CD:

  1. Tickled Ragtime & Novelties ~ Dave Tucker
  2. A Jazz Bouquet
  3. Au Courant ~ Charlie Byrd
  4. The Dave Pell Octet Plays Irving Berlin ~ Dave Pell Octet
  5. Thru the Night ~ Twana Rhodes
  6. Futuristic Shuffle ~ Jan Savitt
  7. Paris Jam Session ~ Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
  8. Sounds Out Burt Bacharach ~ Cal Tjader
  9. Terrain
  10. African Cookbook ~ Randy Weston

Music CD

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Feels Good ~ Tony! Toni! Toné!

The F-Ups ~ The F-Ups

Power of Lard ~ Lard

Play the Chuck Berry Song Book ~ The Routers

Love Psychedelico III

Your New Favourite Band ~ The Hives

Super Hits ~ The Isley Brothers

Buckin' Around ~ Young Bucks

One More Chance ~ The Notorious B.I.G.

Lyricism 101 ~ Tnoc