Duke Ellington - Complete Standard Transcriptions
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Artist: Duke EllingtonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-07-20
Music Label: Drg
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Frenesi
- Until Tonight
- West Indian Stomp
- Love and I
- John Hardy
- Take the "A" Train
- I Hear a Rhapsody
- Bounce
- It's Sad But True
- Madame Will Drop Her Shawl
- Clementine
- Chelsea Bridge
- Love Like This Can't Last
- After All
- Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You
- Jumpin' Punkins
- Frankie and Johnny
- Flamingo
- Bakiff
- Stomp Caprice
- Bugle Breaks
- You and I
- Have You Changed?
- Rain Check
- Blue Serge
- Moon Mist
- I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire
- Easy Street
- Perdido
Music reviews of Complete Standard Transcriptions
Music Review: Glorious-sounding classic Ellington from his best band
Rating: 5 Stars
Amazingly, the folks at Soundies who put out this collection of Ellington's Standard transcriptions put in a note to apologize for the sound quality ("From time to time surface noise and other defects in the original recordings may be detected"). They needn't have bothered. Transcriptions were special records, usually on 16" 33 1/3 rpm discs (four inches wider than ordinary LP's), made to be sold to and played by radio stations. As a result, since radio stations had better playback equipment than home listeners, they were actually recorded better than commercial records. So not only do we have here an hour and a half of music by the greatest band Duke Ellington ever led, we have it in far better sound than on the RCA Victor recordings and can hear details in the arrangements that were smudged in the commercial discs. The short-lived Jimmy Blanton's bass playing in particular can finally be heard, for the first time since his death in 1942, well enough to do him justice. I wish Standard had recorded more songs featuring Ellington's great female singer, Ivie Anderson -- had her career not been cut short by chronic asthma she'd have been a star at the level of Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald -- but everything else about this record is wonderful.
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