5060149622414

Black Brown And Beige

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra & Mahalia Jackson

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Format: 2LP

Cat No: PPANCL1162

Release Date:  01 October 2016

Label:  Pure Pleasure Records

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  5060149622414

Genres:  Jazz  Big Band  

  • Description

    180g audiophile vinyl reissue, double LP, mono recording, remastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London.



    "Black, Brown, & Beige is Duke Ellington's musical representation of the African American experience in the United States. It is arguably The Maestro's greatest work. The triumph of telling so important a story so well through music alone makes Duke Ellington's Black, Brown, & Beige a masterpiece...and Jazz's, highest achievement in long form. Whether you perceive it as a three movement symphony or accept Ellington's own personalized terminology "Tone Parallel," Black, Brown, & Beige matches conceptually and in artistic content the musical continuity of Western Classical's greatest names in their lengthiest works. Ellington premiered the work at Carnegie Hall on January 23, 1943, at Duke's first performance on that illustrious stage...The piece de resistance: a sacred text, by Duke himself, a text sung by the best known African-American religious singer in history, Mahalia Jackson. There is no doubt that it is the presence and performance of Mahalia Jackson which secures a home in the pantheon for this recasting of Black, Brown, & Beige, a work that already resided there.



    And Duke Ellington pulled off this coup with one hand tied behind his back, or without the services of his right hand man. Overlooked over the years since the album Black, Brown, & Beige was recorded in February 1958 is the absence of Johnny Hodges (Hodges did a gig with Strayhorn in Florida during this period), the Ellington band's premier soloist." - Phil Schaap

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Part I
      • 2. Part II
      • 3. Part III (Aka Light)

      Side 2

      • 4. Part IV (Aka Come Sunday)
      • 5. Part V (Aka Come Sunday)
      • 6. Part VI (23rd Psalm)

      Disc 2

      Side 1

      • 1. Track 360 (Aka Trains) [Alternate Take]
      • 2. Blues In Orbit (Aka Tender) [Alternate Take]
      • 3. Part I [Alternate Take]
      • 4. Part II [Alternate Take]
      • 5. Part III (Aka Light) [Alternate Take]

      Side 2

      • 6. Part IV (Aka Come Sunday) [Alternate Take]
      • 7. Part ? (Aka Come Sunday) [Alternate Take]
      • 8. Part VI (23rd Psalm) [Alternate Take]
      • 9. Studio Conversation (Mahalia Swears)
      • 10. Come Sunday (A Cappella)