Duke Just Took My Acid

[JSngry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgBZOsQVbRs

[EKE BBB]

This is an excerpt from the documentary "On the road with Duke Ellington", recorded during 1967 and premiered by the NBC on October 13, 1967.

The complete September 11, 1985 program from the "Jazz Entre Amigos" series on the Spanish TVE, based on this documentary, can be enjoyed at our colleague's Fernando Ortiz de Urbina "Easy Does It/Desde La 52" bilingual blog.

Discographical info for "The Biggest" [aka "Traffic Jam"]:

July 26, 1967. Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Concert at the Gilmore Brothers Auto Park.

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra Cat Anderson, Mercer Ellington, Herbie Jones, Cootie Williams, t; Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper, tb; Chuck Connors, btb; Jimmy Hamilton, cl, ts; Russell Procope, as, cl; Johnny Hodges, as; Paul Gonsalves, ts; Harry Carney, bs, cl bcl; Duke Ellington, p; John Lamb, b; Steve Little, d.

OTRdvd Take The "A" Train [from film On The Road With Duke Ellington]

OTRdvd The Biggest [as Traffic Jam] [from film On The Road With Duke Ellington]

[Teasing the Korean]

A nice, if somewhat late, example of Space Age Bachelor Pad Music.

Is this on an album?

[Swinging Swede]

Yes, it is on Second Sacred Concert and The Jaywalker.