All American In Jazz + Midnight In Paris

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2013

Label: Essential Jazz Classics

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Collective personnel:
Cat Anderson, Harold "Shorty" Baker, Howard McGhee, Ray Nance, Lawrence Brown, Jimmy Cleveland, Chuck Conners, Jimmy Hamilton, Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Aaron Bell, Sam Woodyard, among others.

1-10: All American In Jazz:
New York, January 2, 5, 10 & 23, 1962
Original sessions produced by Teo Macero

11-23: Midnight In Paris:
New York, January 30-31, February 27, June 21 & June 25, 1962
Original sessions by Teo Macero

Bonus Tracks (24-25)
24: Chicago, Illinois, March 16, 1962

25: Jimmy Gourley (guitar solo).
From Duke Ellington's original soundtrack to the film Paris Blues.
Paris, France, December 15-16, 1960