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Duke Ellington
Retrospection: Piano Sessions
Genre: Jazz

Track Listings (23) - Disc #1
1. Who Knows
2. Retrospection
3. B Sharp Blues
4. Passion Flower
5. Dancers in Love
6. Reflections in D
7. Melancholia
8. Prelude to a Kiss
9. In a Sentimental Mood
10. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
11. All Too Soon
12. Janet
13. Kinda Dukish
14. Montevideo
15. December Blue
16. All the Things You Are [Version 1] - Duke Ellington, Hammerstein, Oscar
17. All the Things You Are [Version 2] - Duke Ellington, Hammerstein, Oscar
18. Piano Improvisation No.1
19. Piano Improvisation No.2
20. Piano Improvisation No.3
21. Piano Improvisation No.4
22. New World A-Comin [*]
23. Variations on Mood Indigo [*]

CD Details

All Artists: Duke Ellington
Title: Retrospection: Piano Sessions
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Indie Europe/Zoom
Release Date: 1/6/2009
Album Type: Import
Genre: Jazz
Style: Swing Jazz
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 8436019583692

Synopsis

Album Description

2009 collection. The great Duke Ellington only rarely recorded in a trio format. This release compiles all of his trio recordings from 1953 to 1957 (three tunes, in fact, are piano-bass duets on which the bass only accompanies Ellington's piano). As a bonus, we have added an extended 1966 solo piano version of 'New World A-Comin'' and an extremely rare solo piano version of 'Mood Indigo'. Lonehill.

CD Reviews

He doesn't need His Famous Orchestra to astound!

Michael S. Goldfarb | Verplanck, NY United States | 06/04/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you work your way over to Ellington's "Piano Reflections" album, you'll see that I gave it a rave review some years ago. This imported collection includes everything from that album, plus another ten tracks of trio/duo/solo recordings. Not all of this added material is quite as blindingly brilliant as those 1953 sessions... but some of it is, and none of it is "bad". For just a couple of bucks more, it's definitely worth having. (It's certainly hard to argue with a 79-minute CD in terms of value!)

Essentially, this disc is one-stop shopping to demonstrate that Ellington the piano stylist was just as brilliant as Ellington the composer, Ellington the bandleader, and Ellington the icon.

Recommended beyond category!"