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Black, Brown and Beige (album)

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Released
  
1958

Release date
  
1958

Label
  
Columbia Records

Length
  
72:48

Producer
  
Irving Townsend

Genres
  
Big band, Swing music

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Recorded
  
February 4–5 & 11-12, 1958

Black, Brown, and Beige (1958)
  
Newport Jazz Festival (1958) (1958)

Similar
  
The Far East Suite, New Orleans Suite, Ellington '66, The Ellington Suites, And His Mother Called Hi

Black, Brown and Beige is a 1958 jazz album by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, featuring Mahalia Jackson.

Contents

The album is a recording of a revised version of Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige suite. After a disappointing critical response to its first performance in 1943, Ellington divided the three-part suite into six shorter sections, leaving in "Come Sunday" and "Work Song", and it is this version that is recorded here.

Track listing

All tracks by Duke Ellington

  1. "Part I" – 8:17
  2. "Part II" – 6:14
  3. "Part III" (a.k.a. Light) – 6:26
  4. "Part IV" (a.k.a. Come Sunday) – 7:58
  5. "Part V" (a.k.a. Come Sunday) – 3:46
  6. "Part VI" (23rd Psalm) – 3:01
  7. "Track 360" (a.k.a. Trains) (alternative take) - 2:02
  8. "Blues in Orbit" (a.k.a. Tender) (alternative take) - 2:36
  9. "Part I" (alternative take) – 6:49
  10. "Part II" (alternative take) – 6:38
  11. "Part III" (alternative take) – 3:08
  12. "Part IV" (alternative take) – 2:23
  13. "Part V" (alternative take) – 5:51
  14. "Part VI" (alternative take) – 1:59
  15. "Studio conversation" (Mahalia Swears) – 0:07
  16. "Come Sunday" (a cappella) – 5:47
  17. "(Pause track)" – 0:06

Personnel

  • Duke Ellington — piano
  • Cat Anderson, Harold Baker, Clark Terry — trumpet
  • Ray Nance — trumpet & violin
  • Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman — trombone
  • John Sanders — valve trombone
  • Jimmy Hamilton — clarinet
  • Bill Graham — alto saxophone (subbing for Johnny Hodges)
  • Russell Procope — clarinet & alto saxophone
  • Paul Gonsalves — tenor saxophone
  • Harry Carney — baritone saxophone
  • Jimmy Woode — bass
  • Sam Woodyard — drums
  • Mahalia Jackson — vocals

    • Songs

    1Part I (Work Song)Mahalia Jackson - Duke Ellington's Washingtonians8:21
    2Part II (Come Sunday)Mahalia Jackson - Duke Ellington's Washingtonians6:18
    3Part III (Work Song & Come Sunday)Mahalia Jackson - Duke Ellington's Washingtonians6:24

    References

    Black, Brown and Beige (album) Wikipedia
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