[78-L] Top Dukes

[Cary Ginell]

As far as sheer excitement, for me, it's still "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" from Newport. Still hits the heights for frenzy, with the audience playing as much a role as Paul Gonsalvez.

Cary Ginell

> From: bowiebks at isomedia.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:21:21 -0800
> Subject: [78-L] Top Dukes
> 
> > In my opinion the 1939-1940  Ellington recordings were his very best work
> > and boasted
> > an unequaled orchestra full of soloists and section men of the first rank.
> >
> > Al Simmons
> 
> 
> We're close,  Al...but I'll go for 1940-41...cuz I've gotta have "John 
> Hardy's Wife"!!
> 
> Not to go out on a limb and maybe get sawed off...but wasn't it when Blanton 
> joined that everything just perked up with Ellington?
> 
> I can still remember the first time I heard the Ellington Victor of 
> Sidewalks of New York when I was 12  years old (1965) and how all of a 
> sudden I  understood what a bass in a big band was all about!
> 
> It's still my favorite Ellington record...that last passage with all the 
> reeds in perfect unison and blend just slays me every time,  even after 
> hundreds of plays.
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
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