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Duke Ellington Orchestra
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Duke Ellington Orchestra · The Duke Ellington Orchestra was the big band of the pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington from Washington. From the 1920s the band played in New York, including at the Cotton Club in Harlem. Ellington wrote his pieces for the musicians he had to hand. He knew exactly how each soloist sounded and used those tone colours as a painter uses paint. In this way the band became one of the most important orchestras of the swing era.
In 1939 the composer and arranger Billy Strayhorn joined the band. He wrote Take the A Train, which was recorded in 1941 and grew into the orchestra's signature tune. Ellington's son Mercer also wrote pieces for the band in those years. After Duke Ellington's death in 1974 Mercer took over the leadership. He toured Europe with the orchestra and won a Grammy in 1988 with the album Digital Duke. After him his son Paul and grandson Edward kept the name alive.
Listening
Take the “A” Train · Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1941Apple Music ↗
Discography
Studio albums
- 1947Duke Ellington Plays The Blues
- 1949Duke Ellington's Liberian Suite
- 1953Ellington Uptown
- 1954Dance to the Duke!
- 1955Ellington Showcase
- 1956Blue Rose
- 1956George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
- 1956In a Mellotone
- 1957A Drum Is a Woman
- 1957Such Sweet Thunder
- 1958At the Bal Masque
- 1958Black, Brown and Beige
- 1958Indigos
- 1959Anatomy of a Murder (soundtrack)
- 1959Festival Session
- 1959Jazz Party
- 1960Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2. Ellington/Strayhorn: Suite Thursday
- 1960The Nutcracker Suite
- 1961Piano in the Background
- 1962Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
- 1962Midnight In Paris
- 1963Afro-Bossa
- 1964Mary Poppins
- 1965Ellington '65
- 1965Will Big Bands Ever Come Back?
- 1966Ellington '66
- 1968…and His Mother Called Him Bill
- 1968Primping For The Prom
- 1972Latin American Suite
- 1973Liberian Suite - A Tone Parallel to Harlem
- 1974The Works Of Duke - Integrale Volume 8
- 1975Carnegie Hall Concert 1948, Vol 1
- 1975The Popular Duke Ellington
- 1976The Ellington Suites
- 1985Hot From The Cotton Club
- 1986Duke Ellington Presents
- 1990Essential Jazz
- 1990Take the "A" Train (The Legendary Blanton-Webster Transcriptions)
- 1990Three Suites
- 1991Great Times!
- 1991The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse
- 19921969 All-Star White House Tribute
- 1992April in Paris
- 1992The Symphonic Ellington
- 1996Satin Doll
- 1996Through the Roof
- 1999Ellington '55
- 2001Cotton Tail
- 2001The Treasury Shows, Volume 2
- 2002The Treasury Shows, Volume 5
- 2002The Treasury Shows, Volume 6
- 2004Jazz Violin Session
- 2004The Jaywalker
- 2004The Treasury Shows, Volume 10
- 2004The Treasury Shows, Volume 9
- 2005The Treasury Shows, Volume 11
- 2007Concert in the Virgin Islands
- 2013All American in Jazz & Midnight In Paris
- 2015The Conny Plank Session
- 2020At the Hollywood Empire: Original 1949 Transcriptions
- ?All American in Jazz
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