Duke at the Cotton Club [Live]

Duke Ellington | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Delta Camden
• ASIN: B0000508DR
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #676,932 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cotton Club Stomp

2. Jungle Nights in Harlem

3. Saratoga Swing

4. Stevedore Stomp

5. Haunted Nights

6. Hot Feet

7. Creole Rhapsody

8. Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie

9. Arabian Lover

10. Ring Dem Bells

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Is this live?, July 31, 2002

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bukhtan (Chicago, Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Duke at the Cotton Club (Audio CD)

Be careful of this one. The titles given correspond exactly, in order, to a collection put out some years ago (copyrighted in 1958 and 1985) by RCA Victor (now BMG) as an "RCA Special Product". It was titled "At the Cotton Club". These were studio recordings. I checked W. E. Timner's "Ellingtonia", a discography published by Scarecrow which was exhaustive at the time of publishing in 1988. There was no live performance corresponding to this set. "Jungle Nights in Harlem", for example, was limited to a single studio recording on June 4th, 1930.
These titles are all excellent Ellington compositions representative of his "jungle music" phase. It's the designation as "live" that I'm skeptical of.
Keep in mind that some recordings from the Cotton Club are easily available, dating from the Cotton Club's second incarnation in midtown. These "airshots" or radio broadcasts, with no audience or a very small one, were made in 1938 with fairly good sound quality. Two packages on CD are titled "Cotton Club Anthology 1938" and "Cotton Club Nights".

4.0 out of 5 stars Some Great Music, But Definitely NOT LIVE, April 29, 2010

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Buddy Bolden (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Duke at the Cotton Club (Audio CD)

This is a fine compilation of some excellent tunes that were recorded during the period when Ellington's orchestra was performing frequently at the Cotton Club in Harlem. However, the title is rather misleading, and Amazon's designation of this as a live album is even more so. These are NOT live recordings, but studio recordings.