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Duke Ellington w - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane Audio CD

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Title: Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
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Release Date: 2008-02-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: In a Sentimental Mood 2: Take the Coltrane 3: Big Nick 4: Stevie 5: My Little Brown Book 6: Angelica 7: Feeling of Jazz

Great Music
Some of the best clean, clear jazz I have ever heard. Coltrane and Ellington together make great music. This album came from the top 100 albums and I can see why.


great, but short
This CD is less than 35 min. As anything Coltrane, this is great stuff. and two of the selections are on the GENTLE SIDE OF COLTRANE. Most collectors probably will not care, because we want all the Trane we can get, but it does chop off almost 10 min. off this album. Call me cheap, but with the dwindling cd sales in this world, I want all the value I can get. Example, Concord Music Group is offering 2 fer's for one low price, check it out.


Two Jazz Giants
These are two of the giants of jazz, and the music they make together is sublime. I'll be brief. If you like, and/or admire, either, or both, of these musicians, but this CD. I can't say enough about it. Buy it.


Desert Island Music
Indeed, the package is really cheap, with liner notes ridiculously small,
but since previously I had this album only on audio-tape, this CD is. .
what can say? BEAUTIFUL. . .

Although, if you're a hard-core, late-Coltrane fan, you might find it a bit too low-key, but if you like Coltrane's album with Johnny Hartman, this is something for you. . . Also, Ellington fans will like this Coltrenisation of their favorite composer/pianist/arranger/bandleader. . .

I definitively come from more Ellington based pool (- Duke is the composer of most of the songs; one is by Strayhorn, one is by Coltrane -) and I LOVE THIS. . .
Lyrical, subtle, meditative, beautifully conceived and executed, logical collaboration of great artists.


marketing trap
I've just received my copy of Ellington and Coltrane in the "Originals" collection, and feel disappointed. Of course, the music is top shelf. BUT: The sound has only been slightly improved (I guess you have to be a wizard to improve Rudy Van Gelder's mediocre engineering), and moreover, the new digipack is really a cheap affair compared to the previous reissue from the 90's. . Bad cardboard, ridiculously small liner notes, low quality printing. . If you already own the 1995 reissue, just keep it: you really can live without this "brand new" version.


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