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The Okeh Ellington (CD)

By: Duke Ellington (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Okeh Ellington (CD) Album By Duke Ellington (Artist)
1   East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
2   Hop Head
3   Down In Our Alley Blues
4   What Can A Poor Fellow Do
5   Black And Tan Fantasy
6   Chicago Stomp Down
7   Sweet Mama (Papa's Getting Mad)
8   Stack O'Lee Blues
9   Bugle Call Rag
10   Take It Easy
11   Jubilee Stomp
12   Harlem Twist
13   Diga-Diga-Doo
14   Doin' The New Low Down
15   Black Beauty
16   Swampy River
17   Mooche, The
18   Move Over
19   Hot And Bothered
20   Blues With A Feelin', The
21   Goin' To Town
22   Misty Morning
23   I Must Have That Man
24   Freeze And Melt
25   Mississippi Moon
 
DISC 2 for The Okeh Ellington (CD) Album By Duke Ellington (Artist)
1   That Ryhthm Man
2   Beggar's Blues
3   Saturday Night Function
4   Jungle Jamboree
5   Snake Hip Dance
6   Lazy Duke
7   Blues Of The Vagabond
8   Syncopated Shuffle
9   Mooche, The
10   Ragamuffin Romeo
11   East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
12   Sweet Mama
13   Hot And Bothered
14   Double Check Stomp
15   Black And Tan Fantasy
16   Big House Blues
17   Rocky Mountain Blues
18   Ring Dem Bells
19   Three Little Words
20   Old Man Blues
21   Sweet Chariot
22   Mood Indigo
23   I Can't Realize You Love Me
24   I'm So In Love With You
25   Rockin' In Rhythm
 

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Review

Jazziz (3/93, p.62) - "...has lots of hot playing from such emerging stars as Cootie Williams, Johnny Hodges, and Tricky Sam Nanton...serves as a perfect introduction to Duke's Cotton Club days..."

Title Note

Features Duke Ellington and His Orchestra in various incarnations under the names of The Washingtonians, The Harlem Footwarmers, Sonny Greer & His Memphis Men, etc.

Personnel: Duke Ellington (arranger, piano); Cootie Williams (vocals, trumpet); Baby Cox, Adelaide Hall, Irving Mills, Sid Garry (vocals); Otto Hardwick (soprano, alto & baritone saxophones); Johnny Hodges (soprano & alto saxophones, clarinet); Harry Carney (alto & baritone saxophones, clarinet); Barney Bigard, Rudy Jackson, Prince Robinson (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Freddie Jenkins, Louis Metcalf, Bubber Miley, Jabbo Smith, Arthur Whetsel (trumpet); Lawrence Brown, Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, Juan Tizol (trombone); Henry Edwards (tuba); Lonnie Johnson (guitar); Fred Guy (banjo); Wellman Braud (bass); Sonny Greer (drums).

Producers: Tommy Rockwell, Bob Stephens, Irving Mills.

Compilation producer: Michael Brooks.

Recorded between 1927 and 1930. Includes liner notes by Stanley Dance

Digitally remastered by Tim Geelan & Larry Keyes (Sony Music, New York, New York).

With a catalogue as enormous and uniformly impressive as Duke Ellington's, it is difficult to ferret out those recordings that truly stand out. THE OKEH ELLINGTON is one of those gems. Collecting the sides Duke and his Orchestra waxed for the legendary OKeh label, this set gives a stunning overview of the dance-oriented compositions Ellington wrote, performed and popularized at New York's Cotton Club in the 1920s.

The number of immortal jazz classics here--"East St. Louis Toodle-oo," "The Mooche," "Black and Tan Fantasy," "Rockin' In Rhythm," and "Mood Indigo"--amazes. The members of the Orchestra demonstrate superior musicianship, and these early ranks include long-term Ellington stars such as Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Sonny Greer and Barney Bigard. Several of the tracks appear more than once, though in the face of such fine material, this is only a minor complaint. In all, this collection stands as a monument not only to the best of Ellington's early oeuvre, but to some of the finest, most accessible (yet adventurous) work in jazz. With the exception of the more comprehensive box sets and the deservedly well-known BLANTON-WEBSTER YEARS set, THE OKEH ELLINGTON is as good as it gets.

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