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Released
  
1961

First Time! The Count Meets the Duke (1961)
  
The Legend (1961)

Label
  
Philips Records

Recorded
  
July 6, 1961

Release date
  
1961

Genre
  
Jazz

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First Time! The Count Meets the Duke (1961)
  
The Girl's Suite and The Perfume Suite (1957-1961)

Artists
  
Duke Ellington, Count Basie

Similar
  
Duke Ellington albums, Jazz albums

First Time! The Count Meets the Duke is an album by American pianists, composers and bandleaders Duke Ellington and Count Basie with their combined Orchestras recorded and released on the Columbia label in 1961.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "a very successful and surprisingly uncrowded encounter. On most selections Ellington and Basie both play piano (their interaction with each other is wonderful) and the arrangements allowed the stars from both bands to take turns soloing".

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated

  1. "Battle Royal" - 5:33
  2. "To You" (Thad Jones) - 3:53
  3. "Take the "A" Train (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:46
  4. "Corner Pocket" [a.k.a. "Until I Met You"] (Freddie Green, Donald Wolf) - 4:53
  5. "Wild Man" [a.k.a. "Wild Man Moore"] - 6:20
  6. "Segue in C" (Frank Wess) - 8:22
  7. "B D B" (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 4:43
  8. "Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Count Basie) - 3:09
1999 CD Reissue Bonus Tracks
  1. "One More Once" - 3:25
  2. "Take the "A" Train" [alternate take] (Strayhorn) - 5:50
  3. "Jumpin' at the Woodside" [alternate take] (Basie) - 3:14
  4. "B D B" [alternate take] (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 4:30
  5. "Blues in Hoss' Flat" (Basie, Frank Foster) - 3:13
  6. "Wild Man" [alternate take] - 5:55
  7. "Battle Royal" [alternate take] - 6:32
  • Recorded at 30th Street Studio, New York on July 6, 1961

    • Personnel

  • Duke Ellington, Count Basie – piano
  • Cat Anderson, Willie Cook, Eddie Mullens, Ray Nance, Sonny Cohn, Lennie Johnson, Thad Jones, Snooky Young - trumpet
  • Lou Blackburn, Lawrence Brown, Henry Coker, Quentin Jackson, Benny Powell - trombone
  • Juan Tizol - valve trombone
  • Jimmy Hamilton - clarinet, tenor saxophone
  • Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone
  • Russell Procope, Marshal Royal - alto saxophone, clarinet
  • Frank Wess - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
  • Paul Gonsalves, Frank Foster, Budd Johnson - tenor saxophone
  • Harry Carney, Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
  • Freddie Green - guitar
  • Aaron Bell, Eddie Jones - bass
  • Sam Woodyard, Sonny Payne - drums

    • Songs

    1Battle Royal5:35
    2To You3:57
    3Take The "A" Train3:49

    References

    First Time! The Count Meets the Duke Wikipedia
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