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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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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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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pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for Columbia Records in 1960 featuring jazz interpretations of the 1892 ballet "The Nutcracker" by...
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John Coltrane. It was released in January 1963 through Impulse! Records. It was one of Ellington's many collaborations in the early 1960s with musicians...
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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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In Orbit is an album by jazz trumpeter Clark Terry, also featuring Thelonious Monk, which was recorded in New York on May 7 & 12, 1958. It was Monk's...
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