Duke Ellington - Such Sweet Thunder [New CD] Spain - Import

NEW MINI-LP PAPERSLEEVE GATEFOLD REPLICA WITH OBI5 STARS DOWNBEAT MAGAZINEINCLUDES 3 BONUS TRACKSThe result of many sessions, the current edition presents the complete original Such Sweet Thunder album (tracks 1-12) plus three tunes from the same sessions that were originally intended to form part of the suite but were later discarded (“Suburban Beauty”, “A Flat Minor” and “Café Au Lait”). As a bonus, this release also includes two of Ellington’s previous suites: The Harlem Suite, also known as A Tone Parallel to Harlem, and The Controversial Suite, a kind of humorous work written as a friendly critique of some of the different musical styles in jazz.PERSONNEL:DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA:Clark Terry, Willie Cook, Cat Anderson, Ray Nance (tp),Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, John Sanders (tb),Jimmy Hamilton (cl, ts), Russell Procope (as, cl),Johnny Hodges (as), Harry Carney (bar, cl, b-cl),Duke Ellington (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Sam Woodyard (d).New York, December 6, 1956-May 3, 1957.(*) B0NUS TRACKS:16: THE HARLEM SUITE. New York, December 7, 1951.17-18: THE CONTROVERSIAL SUITE. New York, December 11, 1951.TRACKS:01 SUCH SWEET THUNDER02 SONNET FOR CAESAR03 SONNET TO HANK CINQ04 LADY MAC05 SONNET IN SEARCH OF A MOOR06 THE TELECASTERS07 UP AND DOWN, UP AND DOWN (I WILL LEAD THEM UP AND DOWN)08 SONNET FOR SISTER KATE09 THE STAR CROSSED LOVERS10 MADNESS IN GREAT ONES11 HALF THE FUN12 CIRCLE OF FOURTHS13 SUBURBAN BEAUTY14 A FLAT MINOR15 CAFÉ AU LAIT16 A TONE PARALLEL TO HARLEM (THE HARLEM SUITE) (*)17 THE CONTROVERSIAL SUITE PART 1 (Before My Time) (*)18 THE CONTROVERSIAL SUITE PART 2 (Later) (*)TOTAL TIME: 68:58 Min.