Favorite Ellington / Strayhorn tributes (single artist)

[alankin]

Jessica Williams – I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart: The Music of Duke Ellington (Hep Records) — solo piano

Here's another one.  I know there are some Jessica Williams fans here.

[duaneiac]

[HutchFan]

On 7/15/2016 at 11:41 AM, soulpope said:

Martial Solal solo .... recorded December 1975 (LP Musica Records MUS-3005)

 

I want that!!!  

[Peter Friedman]

[soulpope]

1 hour ago, HutchFan said:

I want that!!!  

I`m positive a chance will come up .... this is (IMO) superb ....

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

I`m positive a chance will come up .... this is (IMO) superb ....

I've seen it a few times for $25 -- but I've never gone for it.  I guess I should have.

I wonder who owns the rights to Musica Records now?  I wish some of their catalog would be reissued. Along with that Solal Ellington LP, I've always wanted to hear the Solal & Joachim Kühn duo LP, as well as others by Mal Waldron, Jimmy Rowles, Al Haig, Michel Graillier. . .   None of them are easy to find over on this side of the pond.

 

Oh well. Don't mean to digress from the topic of the thread.  

[soulpope]

58 minutes ago, HutchFan said:

I've seen it a few times for $25 -- but I've never gone for it.  I guess I should have.

I wonder who owns the rights to Musica Records now?  I wish some of their catalog would be reissued. Along with that Solal Ellington LP, I've always wanted to hear the Solal & Joachim Kühn duo LP, as well as others by Mal Waldron, Jimmy Rowles, Al Haig, Michel Graillier. . .   None of them are easy to find over on this side of the pond.

 

Oh well. Don't mean to digress from the topic of the thread.  

No idea about today`s Musica ownership - but in NM/VG++ condition I would go for the Solal platter @ USD 25 in a heartbeat  ....

[HutchFan]

1 hour ago, soulpope said:

No idea about today`s Musica ownership - but in NM/VG++ condition I would go for the Solal platter @ USD 25 in a heartbeat  ....

Good to know -- especially from a "trusted advisor"! 

[duaneiac]

[Peter Friedman]

[duaneiac]

1 hour ago, Peter Friedman said:

 

Would "Benny Golsen" by any chance be Benny Golson?

[Peter Friedman]

[OliverM]

Any opinions on this one? Haven't heard it, but there are some great Ellington/Strayhorn covers on other Sun Ra recordings.

[Peter Friedman]

[Peter Friedman]

[duaneiac]

[Peter Friedman]

[John Tapscott]

On 7/14/2016 at 7:52 PM, jazztrain said:

 

 

Anyone know this one?  I keep meaning to get it but haven't yet.

 

Many of my favs have been posted so I was about to post the DiNovi. Yes, I recommend it. It's a good one. 

[catesta]

[duaneiac]

 

[Peter Friedman]

With Clark Terry, Pete Christlieb, George Bohanon, & others

[A Lark Ascending]

Odd one - came out on the Discipline label that used to carry Robert Fripp's stuff. Mainly less well known pieces played in that folk-ragtime style that was popular in the 60s/70s. Guitar seems a bit out of tune in places but enjoyable enough - I particularly liked the arrangement of 'Morning Glory'. 

If you want a laugh have a look at the Amazon reviews - all very positive and then a braggadocio musician rips it to shreds.   

[Joe]

Just beginning to dig into this release, and it is pretty fascinating. It features no Ellington or Strayhorn compositions, BUT, as the liner notes make clear, two of the the Praker originals here were commissioned by Ellington about the time of Strayhorn's death (and were apparently accorded a very favorable reception) but never recorded. Colorful, tightly arranged but somehow freewheeling and rhythmically complex music that I'm guessing the Duke of The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse would have appreciated.

[duaneiac]

[Peter Friedman]