Masterpieces 1926-49 (Mini Lp Sleeve)

Duke Ellington - Masterpieces 1926-49 (Mini Lp Sleeve)

Masterpieces 1926-49 (Mini Lp Sleeve)
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Artist: Duke Ellington
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import
CD Release Date: 2001-07-23
Music Label: Proper Box UK
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. East St. Louis Toodle-Doo
  2. Birmingham Breakdown
  3. Black And Tan Fantasy
  4. Black Beauty
  5. The Mooche
  6. Awful Sad
  7. The Blues With A Feelin'
  8. Misty Mornin'
  9. Flaming Youth
  10. Hot Feet
  11. Double Check Stomp
  12. Ring Dem Bells
  13. Old Man Blues
  14. Mood Indigo
  15. Rockin' In Rhythm
  16. Echoes Of The Jungle
  17. The Mystery Song
  18. It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  19. Lazy Rhapsody
  20. Creole Love Call
  21. Blue Ramble
  22. Ducky Wucky
  23. Eerie Moan
  24. Sophisticated Lady
Music CD 2
  1. Slippery Horn
  2. Drop Me Off At Harlem
  3. Daybreak Express
  4. Delta Serenade
  5. Stompy Jones
  6. Solitude
  7. Blue Feeling
  8. Saddest Tale
  9. Moonglow
  10. In A Sentimental Mood
  11. Showboat Shuffle
  12. Reminiscing In Tempo (Pts. 1, 2, 3, 4)
  13. Clarinet Lament (Barney's Concerto)
  14. Echoes Of Harlem (Cootie's Concerto)
  15. Black Butterfly
  16. Caravan
  17. Azure
  18. Diminuendo In Blue
  19. Crescendo In Blue
  20. Steppin' Into Swing Society
  21. Lost In Meditation
Music CD 3
  1. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
  2. Rose Of The Rio Grande
  3. Pyramid
  4. Prelude To A Kiss
  5. Blue Light (Transbluency)
  6. Boy Meets Horn
  7. Slap Happy
  8. Serenade To Sweden
  9. The Sergeant Was Shy
  10. Jack The Bear
  11. Ko-Ko
  12. Congo Brava
  13. Concerto For Cootie
  14. Cotton Tail
  15. Never No Lament
  16. Dusk
  17. Bojangles (A Portrait Of Bill Robinson)
  18. A Portrait Of Bert Williams
  19. Harlem Air-Shaft
  20. All Too Soon
  21. Sepia Panorama
  22. In A Mellotone
  23. Wam Valley
  24. Across The Track Blues
  25. Day Dream
Music CD 4
  1. Pussy Willow
  2. The Sidewalks Of New York
  3. Take The 'A' Train
  4. Blue Serge
  5. Just A-Settin' And A-Rockin'
  6. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
  7. Clementine
  8. Jump For Joy
  9. Chelsea Bridge
  10. Raincheck
  11. Perdido
  12. The 'C' Jam Blues
  13. Moon Mist
  14. What Am I Here For?
  15. Main Stem
  16. Johnny Come Lately
  17. I'm Beginning To See The Light
  18. Transbluency
  19. Lady Of The Lavender Mist
  20. Sultry Serenade
  21. Air Conditioned Jungle
  22. The Clothed Woman
  23. Snibor

Music reviews of Masterpieces 1926-49 (Mini Lp Sleeve)

Music Review: acceptable, given the lack of alternatives
Rating: 3 Stars

Proper has really been burning them out recently, with box & single CD anthologies available for all kinds of prebop colossi. This set may well have given them the confidence to charge off so ambitiously.
It's one of the oddities of the reception of jazz music that Ellington's orchestral works of the Thirties have gotten pretty hard to find on CD. MCA(Decca & early Brunswick/Vocalion issues)and BMG(RCA/Victor)have kept their Ellington in press. Sony(Columbia) has perversely neglected these great sides, over the course of most of the CD era issuing only the small ensemble recordings, not quite all of them in fact, in two 2-CD sets. Their centennial year (1999) 3-CD issue "Essential Ellington", giving us SOME of those great full orchestra 78's, in excellent re-mastering, proves that they could, if they would. Maybe the fusion of BMG and SONY, now in some state of progress, will lead such a project into reality.
In the meantime, this Proper Box is about as good as you can do in one product. If you combine the SONY(Columbia) "Essential" with the BMG(RCA/Victor) excerpt from its "Centennial" edition (also three CD's) you'll get a representative sampling of Ellington, in much better sound than this. For a lot more bucks, of course.
Another option would be the three Robert Parker (Jazz Classics in Stereo) volumes, for the Twenties, Thirties, and Forties. His Thirties volume seems to me the best single CD introduction to Ellington around, and the best product for jazz fans who haven't yet connected with "big band" music. Unfortunately, these discs are now hard to find.
I'm not sure where Proper got the music they've put on this set. I'm afraid I'd have to class the sound as second rate. Some of these sides, in fact, just don't come through here. "Azure", for instance, sounds like someone used a noise reduction program to get rid of the music and retain the fuzz. The rest of the tracks fare somewhat better, but none are exemplary.
There are some inaccuracies in the liner notes. "Caravan", for example, is discograph'ed as the orchestral version, but is actually the small ensemble recording, by the way what I suspect is a burn-over from the SONY set of small band recordings, to judge by the heavy noise reduction that so strongly resembles that used on that product.
Overall, a mediocre product by one of 2nd or 3rd tier re-issue outfits taking advantage of the 50-year lapse in copyright. But what are you going to do? This is the only place, for example, that you can find the '37 recordings of "Dimuendo & Crescendo in Blue", other than on the Chronogical Classics from France. Ditto for "Azure". Let's hope that the behemoth issuing from the merger of BMG & SONY gets on the ball. Does anybody know what they're calling themselves? "Axis.com", maybe?
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Description of Masterpieces 1926-49 (Mini Lp Sleeve)

UK budget-price 4CD box-set. Includes 52 page illustrated booklet. 93 tracks in all including 'Misty Mornin', 'Slippery Horn', 'Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart', 'All Too Soon', & 'Creole Love Call'. Packaged in a slipcase with standard jewel cases. 2001.

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