*** The Duke Ellington Corner ***

[Stompin at the Savoy]

I think I actually have that 4 disc collection but in a cheapo edition with no documentation.  I've been thinking about getting the 11 disk Mosaic and bid on one the other day but lost.

[medjuck]

2 hours ago, Stompin at the Savoy said:

So why does it say RCA on the cover?

RCA and Columbia are now both owned by Sony.  So I guess the vintage logos refer to the present labels. (It is confusing.) 

[Justin V]

Well, now that I know of a glaring gap, I couldn't let that stand.  I couldn't find the 'Best of' set of 4 discs, but I did grab the truncated 'Real' set of 3 discs for $9 (including shipping!) to give me a taste until the Mosaic pops up for a price I can handle.  Although I hate to buy material that I know will later be duplicated, at least the set has those rehearsal takes (not like I could ever hope to be a Duke completist).

[Steve Gray]

15 hours ago, medjuck said:

RCA and Columbia are now both owned by Sony.  So I guess the vintage logos refer to the present labels. (It is confusing.) 

It is actually a combination of Columbia and RCA tracks.

Apart from the 2 previously unissued tracks, 'Daybreak Express' is an RCA cut.

Edited February 1, 2023 by Steve Gray
UNissued

[Chuck Nessa]

5 hours ago, Justin V said:

Well, now that I know of a glaring gap, I couldn't let that stand.  I couldn't find the 'Best of' set of 4 discs, but I did grab the truncated 'Real' set of 3 discs for $9 (including shipping!) to give me a taste until the Mosaic pops up for a price I can handle.  Although I hate to buy material that I know will later be duplicated, at least the set has those rehearsal takes (not like I could ever hope to be a Duke completist).

Discs 1 & 3 duplicate the same discs in the 4 disc set. The 2nd disc is drawn from discs 2 & 4.

[miles65]

The program for the 2023 conference in Paris is available:

Duke Ellington International Meeting 2023 - La Maison du Duke (maison-du-duke.com)

I'm looking forward to meeting friends again for the first time since 2016 in New York or the DESUK AGM in 2017.

I could'n make it to the Birmingham meeting and the one in Washington was cancelled due to Covid.

The Laurent Mingnard Duke Orchestra will perfom selections from Boola. Unearthed by Michael Killpatrick from the Smithsonian Duke Ellington archive.

 

Edited February 2, 2023 by miles65
typo

[miles65]

For those of us who plan to go to the Paris conference: 

Tickets for most events can be downloaded from Booking EN - La Maison du Duke (maison-du-duke.com)

 Be on time. For sessions in the Médiathèque Musicale de Paris there are only 60 tickets avialable.

There are not yet tickets available for the screening of Paris Blues.

 Unfortunately there are no tickets available for visiting the Boris Vian home or the Sunday commented walk. These are for speakers only.

 I now have tickets for the 2 concerts and the 4 seances in the Médiathèque Musicale de Paris.

I'll  skip the Duke for kids event.

 

[medjuck]

On 2/2/2023 at 2:03 PM, miles65 said:

The program for the 2023 conference in Paris is available:

Duke Ellington International Meeting 2023 - La Maison du Duke (maison-du-duke.com)

I'm looking forward to meeting friends again for the first time since 2016 in New York or the DESUK AGM in 2017.

I could'n make it to the Birmingham meeting and the one in Washington was cancelled due to Covid.

The Laurent Mingnard Duke Orchestra will perfom selections from Boola. Unearthed by Michael Killpatrick from the Smithsonian Duke Ellington archive.

 

God wiling and the creek don't rise I'll see you there. 

[miles65]

 

Paris Conference

Tickets for the screening of Paris Blues are now available. The are 8,50 euro.

The French usually dub foreign films in French (what else?).

This is the Version originale wich translates as Original version.

Réservation au cinéma L'Entrepôt (cinemalentrepot.fr)

 

[Justin V]

My daughter is 5 and a budding Duke fan.  She has made up lyrics to the tune of 'C Jam Blues', sung along with 'What Am I Here For?',  played air clarinet and mouthed wah-wah sounds to plunger-muted trombone.

Her preschool is winding up the year and had a dance party.  She asked her teacher to play 'Bunny Hop Mambo'.  I love her madly. 

 

[Dub Modal]

@Justin V you're a great dad 👍

Raising 'em right. 

[ghost of miles]

9 hours ago, Justin V said:

My daughter is 5 and a budding Duke fan.  She has made up lyrics to the tune of 'C Jam Blues', sung along with 'What Am I Here For?',  played air clarinet and mouthed wah-wah sounds to plunger-muted trombone.

Her preschool is winding up the year and had a dance party.  She asked her teacher to play 'Bunny Hop Mambo'.  I love her madly. 

 

Quite the sophisticated young lady! This story was a very nice start to my day. 😊

[GA Russell]

My sister sent me a clipping of a recent WSJ article by John Edward Hasse called "Duke Ellington's Singular Swing."

He writes, "He led his ensemble through 10,000 recordings, an estimated 20,000 performances..."

Does that sound right?  His performances were only double his recordings?  For every 12 songs he recorded, he performed only 24 times?

10,000 recordings divided by 12 would equal 833 albums.

What do you think?  1,000 recordings?

[JSngry]

78s

[John L]

If you include all the live recordings in the Lord Discography and more, you might get close to 833.  So much was recorded for so many years.  The discography is huge.   Maybe only the Grateful Dead have more recordings.  

[GA Russell]

3 hours ago, John L said:

If you include all the live recordings in the Lord Discography and more, you might get close to 833.  So much was recorded for so many years.  The discography is huge.   Maybe only the Grateful Dead have more recordings.  

That's good to know!  The number of performances being only double the number of recordings suggests that nearly every performance after a certain date was recorded and released.

[John L]

1 hour ago, GA Russell said:

That's good to know!  The number of performances being only double the number of recordings suggests that nearly every performance after a certain date was recorded and released.

So you are saying that it doesn't sound credible?  

Actually, I just looked at the database of my own collection that has entries mostly by recording session or concert with no duplications.   I count 511.  That is already more than 3000 performances.  And there are a lot of concert performances, in particular, that I don't have.

 

Edited May 5 by John L

[Ken Dryden]

22 hours ago, John L said:

If you include all the live recordings in the Lord Discography and more, you might get close to 833.  So much was recorded for so many years.  The discography is huge.   Maybe only the Grateful Dead have more recordings.  

I'll take the quality of Duke Ellington over the volume of the Dead anytime. I saw them in concert in 1974 and it was an endurance test. Tuneups that lasted overly long between songs, distorted vocals, overloud bass and a miserable experience.

Edited May 6 by Ken Dryden
Damned autocorrect on my iphone

[Stompin at the Savoy]

35 minutes ago, Ken Dryden said:

I'll take the quality of Duke Ellington over the volume of the Dead anytime. I saw them in concert in 1974 and it was an endurance test. Tuneups that last overly long between sounds, distorted vocals, overloud bass and a miserable experience.

I never went but friends have told me that Dead concerts had a festival-like quality and there was a whole hippy trip and marketplace going on around the concerts.  I've never been able to understand the attraction of the music. Much of a muchness.

[jazzbo]

Different strokes for different folks. I saw them twice, and never saw the tail-gating festival atmosphere and marketplace--I last saw them in '78 so that may have been too early for the "In the Dark" following changes.

Nor when I saw them was there excessive tuning, distorted sound--in fact their sound was the purest and cleanest I heard in my rock band years. And those are not characteristics of the recordings I've collected either.

I followed the Dead until Keith and Donna Godchaux left the band, and really like the last year or two of their tenure less than any of the music before. (That is about when I stopped following rock with real interest in general). But man there is some great Dead music . . . and lots of it. 

Edited May 6 by jazzbo

[EKE BBB]

Oh well, a “Duke Ellington turns into Grateful Dead” thread… 😎

[gmonahan]

Yeah, you never know what sudden turns conversations will take around here! But getting back to the original, I'm not too surprised by the number. I have far more discs (vinyl and cd) by Duke than any other artist.

 

[medjuck]

1 hour ago, gmonahan said:

Yeah, you never know what sudden turns conversations will take around here! But getting back to the original, I'm not too surprised by the number. I have far more discs (vinyl and cd) by Duke than any other artist.

 

Me too.  The list of his recordings (not necessarily releases) in the"New Desor"-- Duke Ellington's Story on Records-- suggests that most of the concerts he gave in the last decade of his life was recorded by someone.