Black, Brown & Beige：The 1944 Recordings_音乐专辑
Black, Brown & Beige：The 1944 Recordings
表演者: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
专辑类型: Original recording remastered
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1988
唱片数: 3
出版者: RCA
条形码: 0078635664140
专辑简介
Black, Brown & Beige chronicles the Victor sides of Ellington's great 1940s ensemble after the death of bass innovator Jimmy Blanton, and the departure of such solo stars as trumpeter Cootie Williams, valve trombonist Juan Tizol, clarinetist Barney Bigard and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster. Included are key excerpts from his ambitious extended work, "Black, Brown & Beige," which premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1943, marking the beginning of an annual big band event for the Ellington Orchestra. Containing future classics like "Come Sunday," the work was greeted with enthusiastic public acceptance, but critics patronized the great composer, embittering him towards music journalists for the rest of his life. Black, Brown & Beige features such Ellington classics as "Things Ain't What They Used To Be," "Transblucency" and "Midriff" (the latter a contribution by the great composer-arranger Billy Strayhorn, who by this time was functioning very much as Ellington's alter ego).
"...recorded in a period of just 20 months between December 1944 and September 1946, an in-depth portrait of a musical giant immediately following a two-year hiatus from commercial recording due to the musicians' union ban. Since last recording, the orchestra had made its Carnegie Hall debut, performing "Black, Brown, & Beige," Ellington's most ambitious work. Further, his collaboration with orchestrator Billy Strayhorn, begun in 1940, had continued to develop. Ellington had been building a repertoire and an orchestra since the 1920s, and he was answerable to both the demands of popular fashion and his own creative muse. In fact, they were inextricably combined. He required popular success to maintain the orchestra that was the instrument of his most ambitious compositions, and that duality is apparent here....Among the intriguing diversions are two one-piano duets with Strayhorn and a cross-town exchange program that found Ellington and Tommy Dorsey appearing as guest soloists with each other's bands on the same day. Throughout, the band is magnificent, with brilliant section work and a host of stunning soloists. Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, and "Tricky Sam" Nanton had been associates since the '20s, while trumpeters Taft Jordan and Cat Anderson, clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton, and tenor saxophonist Al Sears had been added to the band since they last recorded. It's an engrossing experience for anyone fascinated with Ellington's music and a remarkable window on a brief period in his great career. ~ Stuart Broomer
Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn (arranger, piano)
Ray Nance (vocals, trumpet, cornet, violin)
Al Hibbler, Joya Sherrill, Kay Davis, Marie Ellington, Marian Cox (vocals)
Russell Procope (alto sax, clarinet)
Jimmy Hamilton (tenor sax, clarinet)
Harry Carney (baritone sax, clarinet)
Otto Hardwick, Johnny Hodges (alto sax)
Al Sears (tenor sax)
Rex Stewart, Harold "Shorty" Baker, Taft Jordan, Cat Anderson (trumpet)
Tommy Dorsey, Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton, Wilbur DeParis (trombone)
Fred Guy (guitar)
Al Lucas, Bob Haggart, Sid Weiss, Alvin Raglin, Oscar Pettiford (bass)
Sonny Greer, Big Sid Catlett (drums)
曲目
CD 1
1. Work Song
2. Come Sunday
3. Blues, The
4. Three Dances: West Indian Dance / Emancipation Celebration / Sugar Hill Penthouse (Beige)
5. I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues
6. I'm Beginning to See the Light
7. Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know)
8. I Didn't Know About You
9. Carnegie Blues
10. Blue Cellophane
11. Mood to Be Woo'd
12. My Heart Sings, (All of a Sudden)
13. Kissing Bug
14. Everything But You
15. Riff Staccato, (Otto Make That)
16. Prelude to a Kiss
17. Caravan
18. Black and Tan Fantasy
CD 2
1. Mood Indigo
2. In a Sentimental Mood
3. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
4. Sophisticated Lady
5. Tonight I Shall Sleep (With a Smile on My Face)
6. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
7. Solitude
8. Black Beauty
9. Every Hour on the Hour (I Fall in Love With You)
10. Balcony Serenade
11. Strange Feeling
12. Dancers in Love
13. Coloratura
14. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
15. Tell Ya What I'm Gonna Do
16. Come to Baby, Do!
17. I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So
18. Long, Strong and Consecutive
19. Wonder of You, The
20. Rockabye River (Hop, Skip, Jump)
21. Suddenly It Jumped
CD 3
1. Transblucency (A Blue Fog That You Can Almost See Through)
2. Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)
3. Gathering in a Clearing, A
4. You Don't Love Me No More
5. Pretty Woman
6. Hey Baby
7. Back Home Again in Indiana
8. Blue Is the Night
9. Lover Man
10. Just You, Just Me
11. Beale Street Blues
12. My Honey's Lovin' Arms
13. Memphis Blues
14. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
15. St. Louis Blues
16. Swamp Fire
17. Royal Garden Blues
18. Esquire Swank
19. Midriff
