Anyone know these Ellington aircheck albums?

[Larry Kart]

http://www.amazon.com/At-Hollywood-Empire-Duke-Ellington/dp/B004O0UQAQ/ref=sr_1_7?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1346163388&sr=1-7&keywords=ellington+hollywood

http://www.amazon.com/At-The-Hurricane-Duke-Ellington/dp/B004LP2AIK/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_y

Just ordered them on the recommendations of an Amazon poster who I think is Moms and after listening to tracks on Spotify -- those tracks sounded excellent.

[brownie]

I have enjoyed the Hurricane set for several years now.

No Ellington freak should be without it!

[jazzbo]

These have been around on Storyville for a long time, with good reason, they're both great sessions. Some of this stuff I think sounds better in the Storyville Duke box set.

[Don Brown]

Both albums are excellent, Larry. I bought them when they first came out on Storyville. Karl-Emil Knudsen was responsible for their release.

Edited August 28, 2012 by Don Brown

[medjuck]

Everything I've heard from The Hurricane (including this cd) has been great.

[Swinging Swede]

Got both of these back in the day. Typically excellent Storyville releases as we could expect during Knudsen's days.

These are also important in that they catch the Ellington band during the record bans when they could not make any official records. Well, technically the second record ban was over by February 1949, but the Ellington orchestra didn't enter a Columbia studio again until September 1949 (and after that it would take until November 1950 for the next occasion).

Another important aspect is that Ben Webster is present on both CDs. He was back in the Ellington band in 1948-49, but just as with Lester Young's return to the Basie band in 1943-44, this went completely undocumented as far as official studio recordings go.

Unfortunately I see that both are officially sold as CD-Rs now. Try to get the proper CDs, if you can.