Duke Ellington Hindsight Vol 1-5

[shrugs]

Have these 1946 - 1947 radio broadcasts seen a complete reissue on cd? I see that AMG has Vol 1 listed as a cd but it appears to be OOP. I have the lp's but am just curious....

[FrancoisD]

They were issued in 1992 on a 3-CD set : Hindsight HBCD-501.

[shrugs]

Thanks, I figured someone released them. I just couldn't find one. But I see now that Tower lists them. I never think of looking there.

Edited July 9, 2003 by shrugs

[shrugs]

Thanks!!

[jazzbo]

This is a great set indeed!

[Swinging Swede]

Some material on there, such as "Magenta Haze," that I don't think Ellington recorded anywhere else.

Magenta Haze was recorded for Musicraft in 1946, but there are indeed several tunes here that weren't recorded commercially. (Eight according to the liner notes.) Others have different arrangements or soloists than the commercial versions. A good chunk of it also captures the Ellington band at a time when it didn't record commercially (between the last Musicraft recordings in December 1946 and the first Columbia recordings in August 1947).

And as ghost said, these are studio transcriptions, not broadcasts. These recordings were also issued in a Japanese 5-CD box replicating the original 5 LPs. That's the set I have!

Lots of good music here. Definitely recommended.

[P.D.]

And again.. these recording give a slightly different aspect of Ellington, possibly because as Swede points out, the band was in transition between " big company" recording contracts.

Well worth the purchase.