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18 de ago. de 2014 · Ray Nance almost steals the show with singing, mugging and horn playing, while the classic reed team of Gonsalves, Hodges, Hamilton and Procope make silk sheets of sound. The 1958 Newport fest had Ellington riding high.
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Recorded at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City (#1–8) on July 21, 1958, and live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island (#9–14) on July 3, 1958. The studio tracks are mono, the live performances are stereo. Tracks 10 to 13 are bonus tracks, not part of original album.
When Duke Ellington set out to make a live album at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, he set his sights high, targeting new material that had been played by the band only infrequently in the months leading up to the concert.
Here are many of the numbers that Duke featured on his recent visit, now released here for the first time. The whole constitutes the main part of Duke’s 1958 programme at the Newport Festival, and contains several compositions that we were not lucky enough to have him play for us.
Ray Willis Nance (December 10, 1913 – January 28, 1976) was an American jazz trumpeter, violinist and singer. He is best remembered for his long association with Duke Ellington and his orchestra.
Ellington at Newport is a 1956 live jazz album by Duke Ellington and his band of their 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, a concert which revitalized Ellington's flagging career. Jazz promoter George Wein describes the 1956 concert as "the greatest performance of [Ellington's] career...
