Duke Ellington Plays Mary Poppins

Duke Ellington | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 15, 2005)
• Original Release Date: March 15, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B0007CYEAS
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #256,973 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. A Spoonful of Sugar

2. Chim Chim Cheree

3. Feed the Birds

4. Let's Go Fly a Kite

5. Stay Awake

6. Love To Laugh

7. Jolly Holiday

8. Sister Suffragette

9. The Perfect Nanny

10. Step In Time

11. The Life I Lead

12. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Wonderful, January 13, 2009

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Dani Alonso "Dani Alonso" (Barcelona, Spain) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Duke Ellington Plays Mary Poppins (Audio CD)

It's a marvellous version of the music of the film, and it contains a few really fine numbers. Maybe you'll think it's only a recording for children, but it isn't. It's full of colours from the Ellington palette. And is recorded in one of the best periods of Ellington, you'll find some of the Ellington Dream Team.

The super-fast supercalifragi... as you can imagine, is featuring the powerful Paul Gonsalves.

Two big ballad numbers "Feed the birds" and "Perfect Nanny" for the clarinets, Procope and Hamilton.

A really nice Chim Chimeney with the trio.

4.0 out of 5 stars Swingin' Mary, May 12, 2010

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Nikica Gilic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Duke Ellington Plays Mary Poppins (Audio CD)

Actually, this is a very nice, subtle and swinging album and, in any other book, it would merrit 5 stars, but with 4 stars I just wanted to point to the fact that more-or-less same band produced Afro-Bossa and Concert in the Virgin Islands, to name but a few of the masterpieces from the Ellington repertoire (actually, I believe these two are from the very same era)...

So, if you like Mary Poppins, orchestral swing (and similar areas of music), you should buy it.
But, if you're a primarily an Ellington fan, beware, this is not the very best...

My editions lists the soloists, which is nice,
and they are nice, although I believe Cootie Williams had sounded better before..

5.0 out of 5 stars Ellingtonia, March 5, 2009

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J. R. Bailey (Dublin 6, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Duke Ellington Plays Mary Poppins (Audio CD)

The Mary Poppins score is a good one, but the treatment here definitely enhances it. This is a record that deserves to be more widely known. The score shows off the various qualities of this late Ellington ensemble. Very highly recommended.