Blues in Orbit [Bonus Tracks] by Duke Ellington (CD, Jul-2004, Columbia (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	696998704121
Artist:	Duke Ellington
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2004
Record Label:	Columbia (USA)
Genre:	Big Band, Jazz Instrument

Track Listing
1. Three J's Blues
2. Smada
3. Pie Eye's Blues
4. Sweet and Pungent
5. C Jam Blues
6. In a Mellow Tone
7. Blues in Blueprint
8. Swingers Get the Blues, Too, The
9. Swinger's Jump, The
10. Blues in Orbit
11. Villes Ville Is the Place, Man
12. Track 360
13. Sentimental Lady
14. Brown Penny
15. Pie Eye's Blues - (alternate take)
16. Sweet and Pungent - (alternate take)
17. Swinger's Jump, The - (alternate take)
18. Blues in Orbit - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
19. Track 360 - (alternate take)

Details
Contributing Artists:	Clark Terry, Johnny Hodges, Billy Strayhorn
Producer:	Teo Macero, Michael Cuscuna (Reissue), Irving Townsend, Michael Brooks (Reissue)
Distributor:	Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Mixed
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Duke Ellington (piano); Duke Ellington; Bill Graham (alto saxophone); Johnny Sanders, John Sanders (trombone); Jimmy Woode (double bass); Jimmy Johnson, Jr. , Jimmy Johnson (drums); Ray Nance (violin, trumpet); Russell Procope (clarinet, alto saxophone); Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Harry Carney (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone); Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); Paul Gonsalves (tenor saxophone); Clark Terry, Shorty Baker, Cat Anderson (trumpet); Matthew Gee (trombone, baritone horn); Quentin Jackson, Booty Wood, Britt Woodman (trombone); Billy Strayhorn (piano); Sam Woodyard (drums).Audio Remixer: Mark Wilder.Liner Note Authors: Teo Macero; Patricia Willard.Recording information: Columbia's 30th Street Studio, New York, NY (1958); Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA (1958).Photographer: Don Hunstein.BLUES IN ORBIT is a spectacular, well-rounded assembly of early and latter-day Ellington material. Most of these recordings were made in 1959, when the popularity of the LP was changing the ways in which music was conceived and made. While Ellington is known for his "extended works," most of the tracks here resemble--in form, length, and feel--the style of the musician's early catalog. Spacious, conversational pieces (such as the title track) and the slinky exotica of "Smada" fit nicely alongside such favorites and standards as "C Jam Blues," "Sentimental Lady," and "In A Mellotone."Pacing and tone vary according to the standard Ellington program scheme. Wailing up-tempo blues ("Pie Eye's Blues," "Three J's Blues"-in which instrumentalists Jimmy Hamilton and Ray Nance get to stretch a bit) alternate with tracks such as the meltingly beautiful "Brown Penny," this last number featuring an incomparable solo by Johnny Hodges. Ellington delivers with grace, prowess, and supreme creativity, and BLUES IN ORBIT, with its superb playing and diverse, wonderful track list, is a keeper.