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World Saxophone Quartet: Plays Duke Ellington

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Released
  
1986

Length
  
69:16

Release date
  
1986

Label
  
Nonesuch Records Inc.

Recorded
  
April 1986

Artist
  
World Saxophone Quartet

Producer
  
Robert Hurwitz

Genre
  
Jazz

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Plays Duke Ellington (1986)
  
Dances and Ballads (1987)

Similar
  
World Saxophone Quartet albums, Jazz albums

Plays Duke Ellington was the seventh album by the jazz group the World Saxophone Quartet, released in 1986.

Contents

The album marked a departure for the quartet, in that their first six albums had been of music written by the four musicians themselves; this was their first venture into jazz standards.

Track listing

  1. "Take the 'A' Train" (Strayhorn) –1:33
  2. "Lush Life" (Strayhorn) –6:30
  3. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Ellington–Gordon–Mills) –2:43
  4. "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington–Mills–Parish) –4:41
  5. "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" (Ellington–Mills–Nemo) –6:02
  6. "Come Sunday" (Ellington) –7:36
  7. "In a Sentimental Mood" (Ellington–Kurtz–Mills) –5:16
  8. "Take the 'A' Train" (Strayhorn) –4:55

Personnel

  • Hamiet Bluiett — baritone saxophone
  • Julius Hemphill — alto saxophone
  • Oliver Lake — alto saxophone
  • David Murray — tenor saxophone

    • Songs

    1Take the ''A'' Train1:38
    2Lush Life6:36
    3Prelude to a Kiss2:48

    References

    World Saxophone Quartet: Plays Duke Ellington Wikipedia
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