The Great Paris Concert
1973 album by Duke Ellington
The Great Paris Concert | ||||
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Live album by Duke Ellington | ||||
Released | 1973 | |||
Recorded | February 1–23, 1963 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 118:34 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Producer | (Reissue) Ilhan Mimaroglu, Bob Porter | |||
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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [1] |
The Great Paris Concert is a 1973[2] live double album by jazz pianist Duke Ellington preserving pieces of a series of performances given in Paris during February 1963, a decade prior the release. For the 1989 CD reissue, 10 additional recordings from the same series of Paris concerts were added to the release. These 10 performances had previously been released on the 1967 LP Duke Ellington's Greatest Hits: Recorded "Live" In Concert (Reprise RS-6234).
Track listing
All tracks written by Duke Ellington unless otherwise noted. All tracks live.
- "Kinda Dukish" – 1:52
- "Rockin' in Rhythm" (Harry Carney, Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:47
- "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:58
- "The Star-Crossed Lovers" (Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 4:18
- "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 2:35
- "Theme from the Asphalt Jungle" – 4:08
- "Concerto for Cootie" – 2:31
- "Tutti for Cootie" (Ellington, Jimmy Hamilton) – 4:46
- "Suite Thursday: Misfit Blues" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 3:39
- "Suite Thursday: Schwiphti" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 2:50
- "Suite Thursday: Zweet Zurzday" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 3:55
- "Suite Thursday: Lay-By" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 6:25
- "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, H.J. Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 5:22
- "The Eighth Veil" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 2:33
- "Rose of the Rio Grande" (Ross Gorman, Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren) – 2:41
- "Cop Out" – 6:58
- "Bula" – 4:42
- "Jam With Sam" – 3:51
- "Happy Go Lucky Local" – 3:25
- "Tone Parallel to Harlem" – 14:05
Additional tracks on 1989 re-release
- "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 2:33
- "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (Ellington, Russell) – 4:33
- "Black and Tan Fantasy" (Ellington, Bubber Miley) – 2:43
- "Creole Love Call" – 2:08
- "The Mooche" – 5:38
- "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 2:53
- "Pyramid" (Ellington, Irving Gordon, Mills, Tizol) – 3:25
- "The Blues" – 3:36
- "Echoes of Harlem" – 3:32
- "Satin Doll" – (Ellington, Mercer, Strayhorn) – 2:27
Personnel
- Cat Anderson – trumpet
- Lawrence Brown – trombone
- Roy Burrowes – trumpet
- Harry Carney – clarinet, baritone saxophone
- Chuck Connors – trombone
- Buster Cooper – trombone
- Duke Ellington – piano
- Paul Gonsalves – tenor saxophone
- Milt Grayson – vocals
- Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, tenor saxophone
- Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone
- Ray Nance – violin, cornet
- Russell Procope – clarinet, alto saxophone
- Ernie Shepard – bass
- Cootie Williams – trumpet
- Sam Woodyard – drums
- Stanley Dance – liner notes
- Ilhan Mimaroglu – reissue producer, production coordination, editing, sequencing, original collating
- Giuseppe Pino – liner notes, photography
- Popsie – liner notes
- Bob Porter – reissue producer
- Fred Seligo – liner notes
References
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- Harlem Jazz, 1930
- Ellingtonia, Vol. One
- Ellingtonia, Vol. Two
- Braggin' in Brass: The Immortal 1938 Year
- The Blanton–Webster Band
- Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band
- Smoke Rings
- Liberian Suite
- Great Times!
- Masterpieces by Ellington
- Ellington Uptown
- The Duke Plays Ellington
- Ellington '55
- Dance to the Duke!
- Ellington Showcase
- Historically Speaking
- Duke Ellington Presents...
- The Complete Porgy and Bess
- A Drum Is a Woman
- Studio Sessions, Chicago 1956
- Such Sweet Thunder
- Studio Sessions 1957 & 1962
- Ellington Indigos
- Black, Brown and Beige
- Duke Ellington at the Bal Masque
- The Cosmic Scene
- Happy Reunion
- Jazz Party
- Anatomy of a Murder
- Festival Session
- Blues in Orbit
- The Nutcracker Suite
- Piano in the Background
- Swinging Suites by Edward E. and Edward G.
- Unknown Session
- Piano in the Foreground
- Paris Blues
- Featuring Paul Gonsalves
- Midnight in Paris
- Studio Sessions, New York 1962
- Afro-Bossa
- The Symphonic Ellington
- Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session
- Studio Sessions New York 1963
- My People
- Ellington '65
- Duke Ellington Plays Mary Poppins
- Ellington '66
- Concert in the Virgin Islands
- The Popular Duke Ellington
- Far East Suite
- The Jaywalker
- Studio Sessions, 1957, 1965, 1966, 1967, San Francisco, Chicago, New York
- ...And His Mother Called Him Bill
- Second Sacred Concert
- Studio Sessions New York, 1968
- Latin American Suite
- The Pianist
- New Orleans Suite
- Orchestral Works
- The Suites, New York 1968 & 1970
- The Intimacy of the Blues
- The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse
- Studio Sessions New York & Chicago, 1965, 1966 & 1971
- The Intimate Ellington
- The Ellington Suites
- This One's for Blanton!
- Up in Duke's Workshop
- Duke's Big 4
- Mood Ellington
- Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940 Live
- Black, Brown, and Beige
- The Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943
- The Carnegie Hall Concerts: December 1944
- The Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1946
- The Carnegie Hall Concerts: December 1947
- Ellington at Newport
- Dance Concerts, California 1958
- Dance Dates, California 1958
- Newport 1958
- Jazz at the Plaza Vol. II
- Duke Ellington at the Alhambra
- Live at the Blue Note
- Hot Summer Dance
- The Great Paris Concert
- A Concert of Sacred Music
- In the Uncommon Market
- Soul Call
- Yale Concert
- 70th Birthday Concert
- Togo Brava Suite
- Live at the Whitney
- Third Sacred Concert
- Eastbourne Performance
- Blue Rose
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book
- Side by Side
- Back to Back
- The Great Summit
- First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
- Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
- Money Jungle
- Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
- Serenade to Sweden
- Ella at Duke's Place
- The Stockholm Concert, 1966
- Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur
- Francis A. & Edward K.
- It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
- "African Flower"
- "All Too Soon"
- "Azure"
- "Black and Tan Fantasy"
- "Black, Brown and Beige"
- "C Jam Blues"
- "Come Sunday"
- "Cotton Tail"
- "Creole Love Call"
- "Day Dream"
- "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue"
- "Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me"
- "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
- "Drop Me Off in Harlem"
- "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo"
- "Echoes of Harlem"
- "Everything but You"
- "I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues"
- "I Didn't Know About You"
- "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)"
- "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart"
- "I'm Beginning to See the Light"
- "I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So"
- "In a Mellow Tone"
- "In a Sentimental Mood"
- "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
- "Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'"
- "Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)"
- "The Mooche"
- "Mood Indigo"
- " Prelude to a Kiss"
- "Rocks in My Bed"
- "(In My) Solitude"
- "Sophisticated Lady"
- Queenie Pie (unfinished opera)
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by Juan Tizol |
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members
- Hayes Alvis
- Cat Anderson
- Ivie Anderson
- Harold Ashby
- Alice Babs
- Shorty Baker
- Butch Ballard
- Art Baron
- Aaron Bell
- Louie Bellson
- Joe Benjamin
- Barney Bigard
- Lou Blackburn
- Jimmy Blanton
- Wellman Braud
- Lawrence Brown
- Harry Carney
- Johnny Coles
- Willie Cook
- Buster Cooper
- Kay Davis
- Wild Bill Davis
- Wilbur de Paris
- Bobby Durham
- Mercer Ellington
- Rolf Ericson
- Jimmy Forrest
- Victor Gaskin
- Peter Giger
- Tyree Glenn
- Paul Gonsalves
- Sonny Greer
- Fred Guy
- Jimmy Hamilton
- Otto Hardwick
- Shelton Hemphill
- Rick Henderson
- Al Hibbler
- Johnny Hodges
- Major Holley
- Charlie Irvis
- Quentin Jackson
- Hilton Jefferson
- Herb Jeffries
- Freddie Jenkins
- Money Johnson
- Herbie Jones
- Wallace Jones
- Taft Jordan
- Al Killian
- Queen Esther Marrow
- Wendell Marshall
- Murray McEachern
- Louis Metcalf
- James "Bubber" Miley
- Harold "Geezil" Minerve
- Ray Nance
- Tricky Sam Nanton
- Oscar Pettiford
- Eddie Preston
- Russell Procope
- Junior Raglin
- Betty Roché
- Ernie Royal
- Al Sears
- Joya Sherrill
- Willie Smith
- Elmer Snowden
- Rex Stewart
- Billy Strayhorn
- Billy Taylor
- Clark Terry
- Juan Tizol
- Norris Turney
- Ben Webster
- Arthur Whetsel
- Cootie Williams
- Nelson Williams
- Skippy Williams
- Booty Wood
- Jimmy Woode
- Britt Woodman
- Sam Woodyard