Released 1960 Label Columbia Records | Release date 1960 Genre Jazz | |
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Recorded February 4 & 12, 1958, February 25, December 2 & 3, 1959 Blues in Orbit
(1958-9) The Nutcracker Suite
(1960) Artists Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington's Washingtonians Similar Duke Ellington albums, Jazz albums |
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Blues in Orbit is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for the Columbia label in 1959 and released in 1960. The album was re-released on CD in 2004 with bonus tracks including alternate takes and tracks from earlier sessions.
Contents
Reception
The Allmusic review by Bruce Eder awarded the album 3 stars and stated "Blues in Orbit lacks the intellectual cachet of the suites and concept pieces that loomed large in Ellington's recordings of this period, but it's an album worth tracking down, if only to hear the band run through a lighter side of its sound. Indeed, it captures the essence of a late-night recording date that was as much a loose jam as a formal studio date, balancing the spontaneity of the former and the technical polish of the latter".
Track listing
:All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated
- "Three J's Blues" (Jimmy Hamilton) - 2:54
- "Smada" (Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) - 2:38
- "Pie Eye's Blues" - 3:27
- "Sweet and Pungent" (Strayhorn) - 4:03
- "C Jam Blues" (Ellington, Barney Bigard) - 4:52
- "In a Mellow Tone" (Ellington, Milt Gabler) - 2:43
- "Blues in Blueprint" - 3:43
- "The Swingers Get the Blues, Too" (Ellington, Matthew Gee) - 3:09
- "The Swinger's Jump" - 3:53
- "Blues in Orbit" (Strayhorn) - 2:29
- "Villes Ville Is the Place, Man" - 2:33
- "Track 360" - 2:03 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Sentimental Lady" - 4:02 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Brown Penny" (Ellington, John La Touche) - 3:02 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Pie Eye's Blues" [alternate take] - 3:32 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Sweet and Pungent" [alternate take] (Strayhorn) - 3:52 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "The Swinger's Jump" [alternate take] (Ellington) - 3:51 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Blues in Orbit" [alternate take] (Strayhorn) - 2:39 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Track 360" [alternate take] - 2:01 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel
Songs
1Blues in Orbit2:29
2Track 3602:05
3Villes Ville is the Place - Man2:34