Duke Ellington (2)

DUKE ELLINGTON & COLEMAN HAWKINS - Ellington Meets Hawkins (1962)

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1. Limbo Jazz    
2. Mood Indigo
3. Ray Charles' Place    
4. Wanderlust    
5. You Dirty Dog    
6. Self Portrait (Of The Bean)    
7. The Jeep Is Jumpin'    
8. The Ricitic    

Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins is a jazz album by Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins recorded on August 28, 1962 and released in February 1963 by Impulse! Records.
In 1995, the New York Times described it as "one of the great Ellington albums, one of the great Hawkins albums and one of the great albums of the 1960s".

DUKE ELLINGTON - SOMEONE (1999)

1.Someone
2. Gathering in a Clearing
3. You Don't Love Me No More
4. Indiana
5. On the Alamo
6. Happy Go Lucky Local
7. Flippant Flurry
8. Who Struck John
9. The Mooche
10. Suddenly It Jumped

One of the most important and influential jazz musicians of the 20th Century, Edward "Duke" Ellington led a band from the early 1920s until his death in 1974. He composed new material relentlessly, specifically writing to get the best out of his band members. In the late 20s his band earned a residency at Harlem's Cotton Club, which brought nationwide fame to Ellington, as their performances were often broadcast on the radio. Their 1931 recording of "Moon Indigo" became a standard and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"(1932) was a big hit that pre-empted the swing era.
Through the 30s and 40s, the Duke continued to score hit singles and regularly performed on tour, on films, and in stage musicals. His 1956 album, Ellington in Newport, was the most successful of his career, and freed Ellington to focus on less commercial, more ambitious compositions from then on. In 1959 he won three Grammys for his soundtrack to Anatomy of a Murder, and two years later he was nominated for an Oscar for work on Paris Blues. Through the decade he continued to tour, and he won five more Grammys before his death in 1974 from lung cancer.