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Duke Ellington – Ellingtonia Reevaluations: The Impulse Years (VG/VG) – 2xLP, US 1973
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Ellingtonia Reevaluations: The Impulse Years is an LP by Duke Ellington from 1973 released on the ABC Records, Impulse! label.
About this album
Ellingtonia Reevaluations: The Impulse Years is a sharp compilation that revisits Duke Ellington’s late-career Impulse recordings, a period that brought fresh focus to his enduring big-band language. Issued in 1973, it draws together performances that show how Ellington could still rethink standards, blues forms and original themes without losing his signature swing, elegance and harmonic imagination. With material associated with John Coltrane as well as Ellington staples such as Caravan and In a Sentimental Mood, the collection highlights the breadth of his late work and the continuing vitality of his orchestra during the Impulse era. It is a useful portrait of Ellington in reflective, still adventurous mode.
Genre: Jazz
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A1 The Jeep Is Jumpin'
A2 Flower Is A Lovesome Thing
A3 Take The Coltrane
A4 Caravan
A5 In A Mellotone
B1 Once Upon A Time
B2 Things Ain'T What They Used To Be
B3 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
B4 Good Queen Bess
B5 Open Mike
C1 In A Sentimental Mood
C2 Cottontail
C3 Solitude
C4 Jeep'S Blues
D1 Wanderlust
D2 310 Blues
D3 Mood Indigo
D4 Rockin' In Rhythm