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The Great Paris Concert

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Released
  
1973

Artist
  
Duke Ellington

Producer
  
Bob Porter

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
118:34

Release date
  
1973

Label
  
Atlantic Jazz

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Recorded
  
Feb 1, 1963 – Feb 23, 1963

The Great Paris Concert (1963)
  
The Symphonic Ellington (1963)

Similar
  
Duke Ellington albums, Jazz albums

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The Great Paris Concert is a 1973 live double album by jazz legend Duke Ellington preserving pieces of a series of performances given in Paris during February 1963. Several of the tracks were previously edited and included in Duke Ellington's Greatest Hits. Those edited tracks were included on the 1989 CD re-release of The Great Paris Concert.

Contents

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Track listing

All tracks written by Duke Ellington unless otherwise noted. All tracks live.

  1. "Kinda Dukish" – 1:52
  2. "Rockin' in Rhythm" (Harry Carney, Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:47
  3. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:58
  4. "The Star-Crossed Lovers" (Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 4:18
  5. "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 2:35
  6. "Theme from the Asphalt Jungle" – 4:08
  7. "Concerto for Cootie" – 2:31
  8. "Tutti for Cootie" (Ellington, Jimmy Hamilton) – 4:46
  9. "Suite Thursday: Misfit Blues" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 3:39
  10. "Suite Thursday: Schwiphti" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 2:50
  11. "Suite Thursday: Zweet Zurzday" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 3:55
  12. "Suite Thursday: Lay-By" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 6:25
  13. "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, H.J. Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 5:22
  14. "The Eighth Veil" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 2:33
  15. "Rose of the Rio Grande" (Ross Gorman, Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren) – 2:41
  16. "Cop Out" – 6:58
  17. "Bula" – 4:42
  18. "Jam With Sam" – 3:51
  19. "Happy Go Lucky Local" – 3:25
  20. "Tone Parallel to Harlem" – 14:05

Additional tracks on 1989 re-release

  1. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 2:33
  2. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (Ellington, Russell) – 4:33
  3. "Black and Tan Fantasy" (Ellington, Bubber Miley) – 2:43
  4. "Creole Love Call" – 2:08
  5. "The Mooche" – 5:38
  6. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 2:53
  7. "Pyramid" (Ellington, Irving Gordon, Mills, Tizol) – 3:25
  8. "The Blues" – 3:36
  9. "Echoes of Harlem" – 3:32
  10. "Satin Doll" – (Ellington, Mercer, Strayhorn) – 2:27

Personnel

  • Cat Anderson – trumpet
  • Lawrence Brown – trombone
  • Roy Burrowes – trumpet
  • Harry Carney – clarinet, saxophone
  • Chuck Connors – trombone
  • Buster Cooper – trombone
  • Duke Ellington – piano
  • Paul Gonsalves – saxophone
  • Milt Grayson – vocals
  • Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, saxophone
  • Johnny Hodges – saxophone
  • Ray Nance – violin, cornet
  • Russell Procope – clarinet, saxophone
  • Ernie Shephard – bass
  • Cootie Williams – trumpet
  • Sam Woodyard – drums
  • Stanley Dance – liner notes
  • Ilhan Mimaroglu – reissue producer, production coordination, editing, sequencing, original collating
  • Giuseppe Pino – liner notes, photography
  • Popsie – liner notes
  • Bob Porter – reissue producer
  • Fred Seligo – liner notes

    • Songs

    1Kinda DukishThe Duke Ellington Orchestra1:51
    2Rockin' in RhythmThe Duke Ellington Orchestra3:48
    3On the Sunny Side of the StreetThe Duke Ellington Orchestra3:02

    References

    The Great Paris Concert Wikipedia
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