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Ellington At Newport 1956
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Product Details/SpecificationsRecording label: Sony EAN: 0074646493229Binding: Audio CDFormat: Original recording remastered, Live, Release Date: 1999-05-11Universal product code (UPC): 074646493229Number of discs: 2Product Description
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When Duke Ellington took his orchestra to the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956, the band was in need of an uplift, some humongous event that would revitalize its image in the wake of bebop, hard bop, and so many more jazz currents. Ellington got the lift he needed when he called "Diminuendo in Blue" with set-closer "Crescendo in Blue" tacked on the end. Tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves got the nod from Ellington to segue from "Diminuendo" to "Crescendo," and he blew doors. With one rousing 27-chorus solo, Gonsalves blew a fever into the crowd and jump-started Ellingtonia for another generation. Trouble with all this is that the living document of the Newport show is almost fully manufactured, recorded in a studio with crowd madness dubbed in. So this two-CD historical correction is an awesome addition to the centennial-era reissues on Columbia (including Anatomy of a Murder, Such Sweet Thunder, First Time: Count Meets the Duke, and Black, Brown and Beige). The producers revisited the Newport gig after four decades because they discovered an extant Voice of America tape--the one whose microphone Gonsalves blew his solo into, and the VOA tape catches the whole Newport set in its organic glory. Alternately tender with layers of brushstroke orchestration and blazing with the band's well-seasoned tightness, this new Newport is one for the generalist and the Ellington completist. It's got the revived original gig as well as the original commercial release. And they make great siblings, illustrative of the live-event charm and the music industry's dogged labors in reinventing it on record. --Andrew Bartlett
Disc 1 Tracks: 1. Star Spangled Banner2. Father Norman O'Connor Introduces Duke & The Orchestra/Duke Introduces Tune & Anderson, Jackson...3. Black And Tan Fantasy4. Duke Introduces Cook & Tune5. Tea For Two6. Duke & Band Leave Stage/Father Norman O'Connor Talks About The Festival7. Take The A Train8. Duke Announces Strayhorn's A Train & Nance/Duke Introduces Festival Suite, Part I & Hamilton9. Festival Suite: Part I - Festival Junction (Live)10. Duke Announces Soloists; Introduces Part II (Live)11. Festival Suite: Part II - Blues To Be There (Live)12. Duke Announces Nance & Procope; Introduces Part III (Live)13. Festival Suite: Part III - Newport Up14. Duke Announces Hamilton, Gonsalves, & Terry/Duke Introduces Carney & Tune (Live)15. Sophisticated Lady (Live)16. Duke Announces Grissom & Tune (Live)17. Day In, Day Out (Live)18. Duke Introduces Tune(s) And Paul Gonsalves Interludes (Live)19. Diminuendo In Blues And Crescendo In Blue (Live)20. Announcements, Pandemonium (Live)21. Pause TrackDisc 2 Tracks: 1. Duke Introduces Johnny Hodges2. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (Live)3. Jeep's Blues (Live)4. Duke Calms Crowd; Introduces Nance & Tune5. Tulip Or Turnip6. Riot Prevention7. Skin Deep8. Mood Indigo9. Studio Concert (Excerpts)10. Father Norman O'Connor Introduces Duke Ellington/Duke Introduces New Work, Part I, & Hamilton11. Festival Suite: Part I - Festival Junction12. Duke Announces Soloists; Introduces Part II (Production)13. Festival Suite: Part II - Blues To Be There14. Duke Announes Nance & Procope; Introduces Part III (Production)15. Festival Suite: Part III - Newport Up (Production)16. Duke Announces Hamilton, Gonsalves, & Terry/Duke Introduces Johnny Hodges (Production)17. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (Production)18. Jeep's Blues (Studio)19. Pause TrackPublishers: Sony
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