Black Brown & Beige

Duke Ellington | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
• ASIN: B0012GMX0G
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,233 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Black, Brown and Beige, Pt. 1

2. Black, Brown and Beige, Pt. 2

3. Black, Brown and Beige, Pt. 3 [aka Light]

4. Black, Brown and Beige, Pt. 4 [AKA Come Sunday]

5. Black, Brown and Beige, Pt. 5 [AKA Come Sunday]

6. Black, Brown and Beige, Pt. 4 [23rd Psalm]

7. Track 360 [Aka Trains][Alternate Take][#][*]

8. Blues in Orbit [Aka Tender][Alternate Take][#][*]

9. Black, Brown and Beige, Pt. 1 [Alternate Take][#]

10. Black, Brown and Beige, Pt. 2 [Alternate Take][#]

11. Black, Brown and Beige, Pt. 3 [Alternate Take][#]

12. Black, Brown and Beige, Pt. 4 [AKA Come Sunday][Alternate Take][#]

13. Black, Brown and Beige, Pt. 5 [AKA Come Sunday][Alternate Take][#]

14. Black, Brown and Beige, Pt. 4 [23rd Psalm][Alternate Take]

15. Come Sunday [#]

Editorial Reviews

The complete original classic album Black, Brown and Beige with Mahalia Jackson's poignant voice backed by the Ellington orchestra. Includes 16-page booklet. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, lovely, lovely!, November 4, 2009

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Nikica Gilic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black Brown & Beige (Audio CD)

Mahalia, generally speaking DIDN'T record (or sing for that matter) jazz, soul, r&b and other genres;
but she had a high opinion of Duke's work and Duke's orchestra (not a huge surprise there) and he did give her a role that goes well with her religious convictions: she was to sing the religious segment of the African American historical experience... Something she was famous for...
So, this is not a typical Ellington orchestra album, but it's a great album nevertheless, with LOVELY and emotional contributions by Ray Nance, Harry Carney, John Sanders, Quentin Jackson, Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker (...) and the Duke himself.

Additional tracks (two of which I already have on my CBS Jazz Masterpieces "Blues in Orbit" CD - Duke Ellington: Blues in Orbit (Columbia Jazz Masterpieces))
are very, very welcome, even if they sometimes dilute the sheer beauty of the core performances of the album, the selected parts from "Black, Brown and Beige" suite. For me, Ellington's music shows continuous development from the late 1920s until the 1960s (I haven't yet listened to the last few years of his orchestrations) so, this peculiar album is something that will repeatedly find its way to my CD player.