Duke Ellington, piano ; Clark Terry, trumpet ; Harry Carney, clarinet ; Ray Nance, trumpet and vocals ; Johnny Hodges, saxophone ; with the Ellington Band. Recorded in performance at the 1956 Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario. Compact disc. Program notes Rex Stewart, reprinted from the April 22, 1965 issue of Downbeat ([8] pages) included.
Contents:
Hark the Duke's trumpets! (featuring Cat Anderson, Clark Terry, Ray Nance, & W. Cook, trumpets) (3:03) ; Harlem air shaft (featuring Clark Terry, trumpet) (3:14) / Ellington -- Clarinet melodrama (featuring Jimmy Hamilton, clarinet ; Jimmy Woode, bass) (5:36) ; Theme trambene (featuring Britt Woodman, trombone) (3:37) / J. Hamilton -- Sophisticated lady / Ellington (featuring Harry Carney, baritone saxophone) (3:57) -- Take the 'A' train / Billy Strayhorn (featuring Ray Nance, vocal ; Paul Gonsalves, tenor saxophone) (7:00) -- La virgen de la macarena : traditional bullfighter's song (featuring Cat Anderson, trumpet) (4:37) -- Pretty and the wolf (also known as Monologue) / Ellington (featuring Duke Ellington, narrator, with J. Hamilton, R. Procope, H. Carney, clarinets) (2:27) -- I got it bad, and that ain't good / Ellington ; Paul Webster (featuring Johnny Hodges, alto saxophone) (3:48) -- Harlem suite / Ellington (13:20).
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