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Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - The Complete Sessions (1990) [DAD Reissue 1999] Hi-Res FLAC 24 bit/96kHz

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Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - The Complete Sessions (1990) [DAD Reissue 1999] Hi-Res FLAC 24 bit/96kHz

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington - The Complete Sessions (1990) [Reissue 1999]
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 68:36 minutes | 1,42 GB
DAD to Hi-Res FLAC - Source: Classic Records' DAD 1031 | Covers

Whatever the coincidence or lack thereof, jazz listeners were fortunate when Armstrong's and Ellington's paths crossed in an RCA Victor recording studio in 1961, thanks to producer Bob Thiele's influence. And jazz listeners are doubly fortunate that devoted jazz re-issue producer Michael Cuscuna found the out-takes from those sessions. The result is that listeners can be a fly on the wall during the creative process as the two kind-of centeniarians develop the final recorded tracks that the public heard on the original Roulette recordings.

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington were (and are) two of the main stems of jazz. Any way you look at it, just about everything that's ever happened in this music leads directly – or indirectly – back to them. Both men were born on the cusp of the 19th and 20th centuries, and each became established as a leader during the middle '20s. Although their paths had crossed from time to time over the years, nobody in the entertainment industry had ever managed to get Armstrong and Ellington into a recording studio to make an album together. On April 3, 1961, producer Bob Thiele achieved what should be regarded as one of his greatest accomplishments; he organized and supervised a seven-and-a-half-hour session at RCA Victor's Studio One on East 24th Street in Manhattan, using a sextet combining Duke Ellington with Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars. This group included ex-Ellington clarinetist Barney Bigard, ex-Jimmie Lunceford swing-to-bop trombonist Trummy Young, bassist Mort Herbert, and drummer Danny Barcelona. A second session took place during the afternoon of the following day. The music resulting from Thiele's inspired experiment is outstanding and utterly essential. That means everybody ought to hear this album at least once, and many will want to hear it again and again all the way through, for this is one of the most intriguing confluences in all of recorded jazz. Armstrong blew his horn with authority and sang beautifully and robustly. "Azalea" is a harmonically pixilated melody with complicated, peculiarly rhymed lyrics composed by Duke many years earlier with Armstrong in mind. Other highlights include the bluesy "I'm Just a Lucky So and So," a smoking hot, scat-laden rendition of "Cotton Tail," and "The Beautiful American," a marvelously modern exercise composed on the spot by Ellington that leaves one with the curious impression that Armstrong has just finished sitting in with Charles Mingus. It's also a premonition of the Ellington/Mingus/Roach Money Jungle session that would take place the following year. Since Thiele had "borrowed" Ellington from Columbia without permission, Roulette compensated by "lending" Count Basie & His Orchestra for the big-band blowout album entitled First Time! The Count Meets the Duke. The Armstrong/Ellington master takes were originally issued on two long-playing records; Together for the First Time came out on Roulette in 1961 and The Great Reunion appeared in 1963. Both albums later resurfaced as a Roulette LP two-fer entitled The Duke Ellington/Louis Armstrong Years.

Tracklist:

01 - Duke's Place
02 - I'm Just A Lucky So And So
03 - Cottontail
04 - Mood Indigo
05 - Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
06 - The Beautiful American
07 - Black And Tan Fantasy
08 - Drop Me Off In Harlem
09 - The Mooche
10 - In A Mellow Tone
11 - It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
12 - Solitude
13 - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
14 - I'm Beginning To See The Light
15 - Just Squeeze Me
16 - I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
17 - Azalea

Analyzed: Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington / The Complete Sessions
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -6.40 dB -22.86 dB 5:06 01-Duke's Place
DR13 -8.35 dB -24.40 dB 3:13 02-I'm Just A Lucky So And So
DR13 -6.02 dB -22.93 dB 3:48 03-Cottontail
DR15 -6.46 dB -26.49 dB 4:04 04-Mood Indigo
DR12 -8.76 dB -23.34 dB 2:40 05-Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
DR12 -6.76 dB -24.35 dB 3:13 06-The Beautiful American
DR12 -6.44 dB -22.50 dB 4:03 07-Black And Tan Fantasy
DR13 -6.02 dB -22.58 dB 3:55 08-Drop Me Off In Harlem
DR13 -6.39 dB -24.85 dB 3:46 09-The Mooche
DR13 -6.81 dB -23.65 dB 3:52 10-In A Mellow Tone
DR12 -6.07 dB -21.84 dB 4:01 11-It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
DR13 -6.06 dB -24.04 dB 4:57 12-Solitude
DR13 -6.27 dB -22.36 dB 3:36 13-Don't Get Around Much Anymore
DR12 -6.12 dB -22.43 dB 3:40 14-I'm Beginning To See The Light
DR13 -6.51 dB -23.32 dB 4:02 15-Just Squeeze Me
DR13 -8.29 dB -26.33 dB 5:32 16-I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
DR13 -7.85 dB -25.41 dB 5:09 17-Azalea
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Number of tracks: 17
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2713 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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