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Eastbourne Performance

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Released
  
1975

Release date
  
1975

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
December 1, 1973

Label
  
RCA Records

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Artists
  
Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington's Washingtonians

Similar
  
Duke Ellington's Washingtonians albums, Jazz albums

Eastbourne Performance is a live album by American pianist, composer and band leader Duke Ellington featuring his final recorded concert at the Congress Theatre in Eastbourne, England in December 1973 and released on the RCA label in 1975.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and states "The Ellington Orchestra was a bit weaker than it had been (many of the veterans had either died or retired) but it was still a mighty outfit... Actually the most impressive soloist on the album (which has yet to be reissued on CD) is Ellington himself... A fitting ending to a truly remarkable career".

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated
  1. "The Piano Player"
  2. "Creole Love Call"
  3. "Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know)" (Mack David, Ellington)
  4. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin)
  5. "New York, New York"
  6. "Pitter Panther Patter" (Ellington, Jimmy Blanton)
  7. "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis)
  8. "Basin Street Blues" (Spencer Williams)
  9. "Tiger Rag" (Nick La Rocca, Eddie Edwards, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, Larry Shields, Harry Da Costa)
  10. "Woods"
  11. "Meditation"
  • Recorded in concert at the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, England on December 1, 1973.

    • Personnel

  • Duke Ellington – piano, conductor
  • Mercer Ellington, Money Johnson, Johnny Coles, Barry Lee Hall - trumpet
  • Vince Prudente, Art Baron, Chuck Connors - trombone
  • Harry Carney, Harold Ashby, Russell Procope, Geezil Minerve, Percy Marion - reeds
  • Joe Benjamin - bass
  • Rocky White - drums
  • Anita Moore, Money Johnson - vocals

    • Songs

    1The Piano Player2:56
    2Creole Love Call4:31
    3Don't You Know I Care4:32

    References

    Eastbourne Performance Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA