Duke Ellington Indigos 180G Vinyl LP IMPEX 2023 Remaster

Description: Heavy-Weight 180 Gram Audiophile All-Analog Pressing!Newly Remastered with the Same Analog Tapes Used for the 2012 Impex Records Release by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering!Pressed at RTI!Impex Records makes your nights a little bit cooler with this Limited Edition, 180 Gram All-Analog shot of pure Duke at his most soulfully nocturnal. An elegant, romantic set of ballads from the master of American large-group jazz. Ellington Indigos is a 1958 jazz album by Duke Ellington. Indigos features performances of jazz standards such as "Mood Indigo", "Autumn Leaves", "Prelude To a Kiss" and more!"The legendary composer and bandleader Duke Ellington was so famous for his poise and charm that it should be no surprise that he had a pithy story at the ready whenever he was asked about one of his most famous and enduring works, "Mood Indigo." Of the song he and his orchestra recorded for the very first time on this day in 1930, Ellington was fond of saying, "Well, I wrote that in 15 minutes while I was waiting for my mother to finish cooking dinner." As neatly as that version fit with his well-tended reputation for effortless sophistication, the true account of the song's development reflects the gifts for collaboration and adaptation that were always critical elements of Ellington's genius.""The genesis of "Mood Indigo" was a visit to New York City in 1930 by a New Orleans jazzman named Lorenzo Tio, Jr. Duke Ellington's clarinetist, Barney Bigard, was a former student of Tio's, and on Tio's visit to New York, he shared with Bigard a number of melodies he'd written, including one called "Dreamy Blues" that had served as the theme song for his group back home, Armand Piron's New Orleans Orchestra. "I asked him if I could borrow it," Bigard later wrote in his autobiography. "I took it home and kept fooling around with it...and got something together that mostly was my own but partly Tio's." Bigard's variation on "Dreamy Blues" would soon become the clarinet solo on "Mood Indigo," thanks to Duke Ellington's penchant for involving his band members in his composition process... With lyrics added by Mitchell Parish in 1931 (but credited to Ellington's manager Irving Mills), "Mood Indigo" became a vocal-jazz standard as well as an instrumental one, recorded memorably by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Nina Simone among many others." - from This Day in History (October 15); www.history.comFeaturesHeavy-Weight 180 Gram VinylAudiophile All-Analog PressingStereoNewly Remastered with the Same Analog Tapes Used for the 2012 Impex Records Release by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman MasteringPressed at RTIMusiciansDuke Ellington and His Orchestra:Ray Nance, "Cat" Anderson, "Shorty" Baker, Clark Terry, Willie Cook, trumpetsSam Woodyard, drumsJohn Sanders, Britt Woodman, Quentin Jackson, trombonesJimmy Wood, bassJohnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gonsalves, saxDuke Ellington, pianoTracksSide 1:1. Solitude2. Where Or When3. Mood Indigo4. Autumn LeavesSide 2:1. Prelude To a Kiss2. Willow Weep For Me3. Tenderly4. Dancing In the DarkUPC: 874925895153

Price: 38.69 USD

Location: Yonkers, New York

End Time: 2024-12-20T06:04:35.000Z

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