Gerald Wilson's "Perdido" chart for Duke

[Mark Stryker]

Hey gang,

Does anyone know whether Gerald Wilson's great arrangement of "Perdido" that appears on Duke's "The Great Paris Concert" from 1963 was recorded previously by Ellington?

What a roaring chart ... (though the beboppish two-tenor intro that Jimmy Hamilton and Paul Gonsalves play was conceived if memory serves by Clark Terry and Hamilton.

[JSngry]

With some very minor modifications of orchestration, it's on Piano In the Foreground, from 1960.

And Duke is delighted that you ask!

[Mark Stryker]

Thanks for this -- appreciate it. That's not a record I know at all. Quite a press roll (!) leading to Wilson's intro, after the bebop choruses on top ...

[JSngry]

Also found here, which is a nice listen in and of itself, although now that all the material is available elsewhere, far from "essential". But if found used cheaply, hey, why not.

[DIS]

I can tell you how you can obtain a good transcription of Gerald Wilson's "Perdido" if anyone's interested in acquiring the big-bandchart.

[JSngry]

Interested.

[Lazaro Vega]

Yes, interested!

[DIS]

Lazaro -

Sent you a response by PM about obtaining a copy of Gerald Wilson's "Perdido" recorded by Duke Ellington.