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By Loren Schoenberg, Conductor and Saxophonist
These lists have been compiled with the newcomer to jazz in mind. We have shied away from compilations wherever possible, for the simple reason that you may very well wind up buying the complete albums that were excerpted in the compilations. Here you have a small but representative sampling of some of the very best music Duke Ellington recorded in every period of his career, with as little duplication as possible.
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East St. Louis Toodle-oo
Recorded November 29, 1926
(Courtesy Columbia/Legacy) |
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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Recorded February 2, 1932
(Courtesy Columbia/Legacy) |
The Far East Suite
BMG
Such Sweet Thunder
Sony
The Blanton-Webster Band
BMG
Early Ellington 1926-31
GRP
New Orleans Suite
Atlantic
Toga Brava Suite
Blue Note
Raisin' The Rent
Hep
The Complete Capitol Sessions
Mosaic
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NPR's Basic Jazz Record Library: Duke Ellington
NPR's Murray Horwitz and jazz critic and poet AB Spellman recommend Ellington's Such Sweet Thunder (Sony Legacy).
(Courtesy NPRJazz.org) |
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NPR's Basic Jazz Record Library: Duke Ellington
NPR's Murray Horwitz and jazz critic and poet AB Spellman recommend Ellington's The Duke at His Best (Prism).
(Courtesy NPRJazz.org) |
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