Blues in Orbit is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for the Columbia label in 1959 and released in 1960. The...
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Blues in Orbit is an album by jazz composer, arranger, conductor and pianist Gil Evans, recorded in 1969 and 1971 by Evans with an orchestra featuring...
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which Ellington himself had recorded in 1932. Howard Stern used a recording of this song (from Ellington's Blues in Orbit album) as the opening theme to The...
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contained two quartet pieces, "Blues In Orbit" (or "Cheryl"*) and "Isabel" (or "The Underdog"*), which are not available on CD. In the UK, the original album...
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vocalist Adelaide Hall. The song entered the Billboard USA song charts in 1928 at No. 19. In 1988, during a radio interview with the journalist and radio host...
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those nominally led by his sidemen (mainly in the 1930s and early 1940s), and his later collaborations (mainly in the 1960s) with musicians with whom Ellington...
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Caravan (Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington song) (category Jazz compositions in F minor)
performed by Ellington in 1936. Irving Mills wrote lyrics, but they are rarely sung. The first version of the song was recorded in Hollywood in 1936 and performed...
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Take the "A" Train (category Jazz compositions in C major)
(1999) Tina May – Tina May – Live in Paris (2000) Nikki Yanofsky – Nikki (2010) Lost Weekend – Harbor Lights and Cowboy Blues (2001) James Moody – Moody 4B...
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
3:51 "Take the "A" Train" (Strayhorn) – 6:37 "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues" (Ellington, Don George) – 4:39 "Clementine" (Strayhorn) – 2:37 "I Didn't...
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re-releases "Track 360" (a.k.a. Trains) (alternative take) – 2:02 "Blues in Orbit" (a.k.a. Tender) (alternative take) – 2:36 "Part I" (alternative take)...
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