Release Date: 07 April 2014
Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 8436559462365
Description
After the successful orbital launch of the Soviet unmanned Sputnik 1 mission on October 4 1957, the space race was on and the possibility of space travel was on everyone's mind worldwide. That event explains the titles of the two Duke Ellington albums presented here in their entireties: Blues in Orbit (Columbia CS-8241) and Duke Ellington's Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene (Columbia CL-1198). Beyond their titles, however, both are pure and earthy Ellington masterpieces with no touch of outer space.
While the former has the full band, the latter presents a nonet. Both are an interesting combination of old standards rearranged and renewed, and fresh compositions, some of which would never be recorded again by Duke. All existing others tunes or alternative takes from the sessions have been added to this set, which also presents 10 bonus tracks consisting of different versions of tunes from the LPs.
Tracklisting
Tina Brooks Quintet
Nancy Wilson, Cannonball Aderley & George Shearing
Stan Getz
Steve Lacy
Booker Little
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Chet Baker
Harry James
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
