First_Time!_The_Count_Meets_the_Duke

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First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

1961 album by Duke Ellington

First Time! The Count Meets the Duke is an album by American pianists, composers and bandleaders Duke Ellington and Count Basie with their combined Orchestras recorded and released on the Columbia label in 1961.[1]

Quick Facts First Time! The Count Meets the Duke, Released ...

On stereo releases of the album, Basie's band is featured on the left channel and Ellington's on the right.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars calling it "a very successful and surprisingly uncrowded encounter. On most selections Ellington and Basie both play piano (their interaction with each other is wonderful) and the arrangements allowed the stars from both bands to take turns soloing".[2]

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Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated

  1. "Battle Royal" - 5:33
  2. "To You" (Thad Jones) - 3:53
  3. "Take the "A" Train (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:46
  4. "Corner Pocket" [a.k.a. "Until I Met You"] (Freddie Green, Donald Wolf) - 4:53
  5. "Wild Man" [a.k.a. "Wild Man Moore"] - 6:20
  6. "Segue in C" (Frank Wess) - 8:22
  7. "B D B" (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 4:43
  8. "Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Count Basie) - 3:09
1999 CD Reissue Bonus Tracks
  2. "One More Once" - 3:25
  3. "Take the "A" Train" [alternate take] (Strayhorn) - 5:50
  4. "Jumpin' at the Woodside" [alternate take] (Basie) - 3:14
  5. "B D B" [alternate take] (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 4:30
  6. "Blues in Hoss' Flat" (Basie, Frank Foster) - 3:13
  7. "Wild Man" [alternate take] - 5:55
  8. "Battle Royal" [alternate take] - 6:32

Personnel

References

  1. [1]
    A Duke Ellington Panorama accessed May 17, 2010
  2. [2]
    Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed May 17, 2010
  3. [3]
    Down Beat: May 10, 1962 vol. 29, no. 10
  4. [4]
    Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 69. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. [5]
    Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 440. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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