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Format: LP
Label: WaxTime
Year: 2011
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
A1 Such Sweet Thunder
A2 Sonnet For Caesar
A3 Sonnet To Hank Cinq
A4 Lady Mac
A5 Sonnet In Search Of A Moor
A6 The Telecasters
B1 Up And Down, Up And Down (I Will Lead Them Up And Down)
B2 Sonnet For Sister Kate
B3 The Star-Crossed Lovers
B4 Madness In Great Ones
B5 Half The Fun
B6 Circle Of Fourths
B7 Suburban Beauty
Originally released in 1957.
PERSONNEL:
Bass – Jimmy Wood
Composed By – Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington
Drums – Sam Woodyard
Piano – Duke Ellington
Saxophone – Harry Carney, Jimmy Hamilton, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Russel Procope
Trombone – Britt Woodman, John Sanders, Quentin Jackson
Trumpet – "Cat" Anderson, Clark Terry, Ray Nance, Willie Cook
This music counts among Ellington’s most well-realized ‘concept projects’, inspired by Shakespeare’s work and filled with memorable melodies and ample opportunities for solos by Cat Anderson, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, and Quentin Jackson.
The Ellington-Strayhorn compositions treat their soloists like actors doing scenes and, in effect, playing parts, even quoting lines after a fashion — Clark Terry ‘plays’ “Puck” in “Up and Down, Up and Down (I Will Lead Them Up and Down)”, and Johnny Hodges turns in one of the most sensuous performances of his career for “Half the Fun,” from “Antony and Cleopatra”.
Label: WaxTime
Year: 2011
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
A1 Such Sweet Thunder
A2 Sonnet For Caesar
A3 Sonnet To Hank Cinq
A4 Lady Mac
A5 Sonnet In Search Of A Moor
A6 The Telecasters
B1 Up And Down, Up And Down (I Will Lead Them Up And Down)
B2 Sonnet For Sister Kate
B3 The Star-Crossed Lovers
B4 Madness In Great Ones
B5 Half The Fun
B6 Circle Of Fourths
B7 Suburban Beauty
Originally released in 1957.
PERSONNEL:
Bass – Jimmy Wood
Composed By – Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington
Drums – Sam Woodyard
Piano – Duke Ellington
Saxophone – Harry Carney, Jimmy Hamilton, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Russel Procope
Trombone – Britt Woodman, John Sanders, Quentin Jackson
Trumpet – "Cat" Anderson, Clark Terry, Ray Nance, Willie Cook
This music counts among Ellington’s most well-realized ‘concept projects’, inspired by Shakespeare’s work and filled with memorable melodies and ample opportunities for solos by Cat Anderson, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, and Quentin Jackson.
The Ellington-Strayhorn compositions treat their soloists like actors doing scenes and, in effect, playing parts, even quoting lines after a fashion — Clark Terry ‘plays’ “Puck” in “Up and Down, Up and Down (I Will Lead Them Up and Down)”, and Johnny Hodges turns in one of the most sensuous performances of his career for “Half the Fun,” from “Antony and Cleopatra”.