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PIANO IN THE FOREGROUND |  |
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Whenever he introduced the members of his orchestra to audiences around the world, Duke Ellington 1899 1974 invariably and jokingly referred to himself as "the piano player." On Piano In The Foreground, the Maestro's singular touch and and graceful solos are center stage for a program of sublime originals, one dream like piece by longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn, plus four of the most perdurable and pleasurable entries in the Great American Songbook. Given exemplary support on the bulk of this set by Aaron Bell and Sam Woodyard, the orchestra's bass drums tandem at the time of the 1961 recordings herein, this newly remastered collection has been expanded to eighteen selections, with eight bonus tracks coming from two 1957 dates. As Joe Goldberg astutely pointed out in his original notes: "If Ellington did nothing but play the piano, he would be a giant." |
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 I Can't Get Started
Cong-Go
Body And Soul
Blues For Jerry
Fontainebleau Forest
Summertime
It's Bad To Be Forgotten
A Hundred Dreams Ago
So
Searching (Pleading For Love)
Springtime In Africa
Lotus Blossom
All The Things You Are (take 1)
All The Things You Are (take 2)
Piano Improvisation No. 2
Piano Improvisation No. 3
Piano Improvisation No. 4
Piano Improvisation No. 1 Album Version |
Personnel: Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Hodges, Clark Terry |
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