First Annual Connecticut Jazz Festival

Duke Ellington | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 26, 2000)
• Label: Iajrc Records
• ASIN: B00005YBW5
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,864,450 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Festival Junction

2. Blues to Be There

3. Newport Up

4. Tea for Two

5. Ad Lib Blues

6. Perdido

7. Fingerbuster

8. Squeeze Me

9. The Hawk Talks

10. Sophisticated Lady

11. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)

12. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me

13. Hey Cherie

14. Take the "A" Train

15. Good Gal Blues

16. Mood Indigo

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars music, July 13, 2011

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This review is from: First Annual Connecticut Jazz Festival [Vinyl] (Vinyl)

First class recording. Sounds like as if you were in the audience in a live concert. Looking for a vinyl recording of Duke Ellington at Newport, 1956?? I think.

5.0 out of 5 stars Ellington, Clayton and Friends - a true festival of jazz, December 10, 2007

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Nikica Gilic - See all my reviews

This review is from: First Annual Connecticut Jazz Festival (Audio CD)

I actually own a bit older edition of this CD, but the song line-up seems the same, so here it goes: I have no idea what happened with Connecticut jazz festival after this glorious debut, but brother, what a debut it was!

The Orchestra was in full power and swing, with Hodges, Carney, Hamilton, Gonsalves, Nance, Terry, Procope, Cat Anderson... (songs 1-3 - actually "The Newport Jazz Festival Suite" and songs 9-16), but the additional atractions is, first of all, the excellent "Festival All-Stars", where Buck Clayton joined his warm and luxurious trumpet with Hank Jones' piano and some of the best Ellington talents (Gonsalves on tenor, Hamilton on clarinet, bassist Jimmy Woode and the drummer Woodyard)... They perform imaginative and hot version of "Tea for Two" and an "Ad Lib Blues".
Then comes the gentle and virtuoso sound of Willie "The Lion" Smith on piano, a great influence on young Ellington; his trio is joined by the great Buck Clayton on trumpet (the rest of the trio is Walter Page -b and Arthur Trappier - dm) - their contribution (in songs 6-8) is anything but a historical curiosity...

BTW, in the last, Ellington section of the CD, Ray Nance is heard in some hillarious vocal flights (partly in some sort of French, apparently...)

Only true complaint of this great album consists of the occasional slips in the technological quality of the recording (poor ballance and so forth), but the music is constantly exciting...

Additional Ellington, Nance, Hodges, Gonsalves, Carney, Anderson and Clayton's gems for your pleasure:
The Great Paris Concert [Collectables], 1939-1941 Jimmy Blanton Era, Buck Clayton Jam Session, Jazz Party...