Duke Ellington - Uppsala 1971

[mjzee]

Release date September 6:

[JSngry]

The program seems just a wee bit spotty, but it's always a pleasure to hear that band from that time...CHARACTER!

[gmonahan]

Is this one on that second Duke Storyville box?

 

 

gregmo

[Ted O'Reilly]

42 minutes ago, gmonahan said:

Is this one on that second Duke Storyville box?

 

 

gregmo

I have TheDukeBox2 and don't see it there.

[gmonahan]

5 hours ago, Ted O'Reilly said:

I have TheDukeBox2 and don't see it there.

Thanks!

 

 

[Ken Dryden]

One More Time For The People is easily Duke’s worst song. No wonder Cootie Williams stormed off when it was called.

[Ken Dryden]

They make it appear that Johnny Mercer was co-writer of "Things Ain't What They Used To Be," the song that Mercer Ellington supposedly won from Johnny Hodges in a card game.

 

[medjuck]

It's a mistake I once heard a CBC announcer make when he saw the song credited to Mercer Ellington (not Mercer-Ellington).  A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. 

[Ken Dryden]

I will have to check to see if the Ellingtonia Discography lists this concert. I hope they didn't leave out any tracks when they could have easily deleted "One More Time For The People" and the usual medley of hits (often called the "Dread Medley" by critics).

[Ken Dryden]

There were two concerts on November 9, 1971 with slightly different set lists. This CD evidently comes from the second show, though the final number, Black Swan, was omitted.

[king ubu]

On ‎23‎.‎08‎.‎2019 at 9:28 PM, Ted O'Reilly said:

I have TheDukeBox2 and don't see it there.

Not on the first one either, the contents of which can be checked here:

http://www.depanorama.net/dems/071c.htm

[king ubu]

Storyville seems to have failed to provide a line-up ... they list one on the website, and I guess there's no question marks generally:

Cootie Williams, Harold “Money” Johnson, Eddie Preston, Mercer Ellington, John Coles (tp),
Chuck Connors, Malcolm Taylor, Booty Wood (tb), 
Russell Procope (as, cl),
Harold “Geezil” Minerve (as, f, pi),
Norris Turney (as, ts, cl, f),
Harold Ashby (ts, cl),
Paul Gonsalves (ts),
Harry Carney (bars, cl, bcl),
Duke Ellington (p), 
Joe Benjamin (b),
Rufus Jones (dr),
Lena Junoff, Nell Brookshire, Tony Watkins (vcl)

https://www.storyvillerecords.com/products/uppsala-1971

That is, generally ... but regarding the singers, there is. Reviews mention Nell Brookshire and Tony Watkins doing a rollicking or embarassing (depending on point of view) version of "One More Time (for the People)" a.k.a. "One More Once", but one of the Swedish reviews published via ellington.se fails to list both Lena Junoff and Nell Brookshire, instead providing Bobbi Gordon, while the other again mentions Brookshire/Watkins:

review and links found here:

https://ellington.se/2019/08/11/duke-ellington-in-uppsala-1971/

 

Not that it matters all that much, but why can't Storyville list the personnel in their booklet?