Live at the Blue Note is a live album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded at The Blue Note nightclub in Chicago for the Roulette label in 1959.
The album was originally released as a single LP and rereleased as a double CD in 1994 with fourteen bonus tracks on the Blue Note label.
Reception The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "This two-CD set gives one a good example of how Duke Ellington's Orchestra sounded in 1959. Greatly expanded from the original single LP, the release essentially brings back a full night by the Ellington band, three nearly complete sets. The music ranges from old favorites to some newer material".Yanow, Scott. . Accessed May 18, 2010.
Track listing All compositions by Duke Ellington, except where noted.
Disc 1 "Take the 'A' Train" (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:17 Bonus track on CD reissue "Newport Up" (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 4:40 Bonus track on CD reissue "Haupe" [aka "Polly's Theme"] - 3:58 "Flirtibird" - 3:01 "Pie Eye's Blues" - 3:16 "Almost Cried" - 3:20 Bonus track on CD reissue "Duael Fuel (Dual Filter)" - (Ellington, Clark Terry) - 11:37 Bonus track on CD reissue "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) - 3:56 "Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool" (Shorty Baker, Ellington) - 7:17 "El Gato" (Cat Anderson) - 4:13 Bonus track on CD reissue "C Jam Blues" (Barney Bigard, Ellington) - 4:52 Bonus track on CD reissue "Tenderly" (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) - 5:30 Bonus track on CD reissue "Honeysuckle Rose" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller) - 4:20 Bonus track on CD reissue "Drawing Room Blues" (Strayhorn) - 6:05 Bonus track on CD reissue "Tonk" (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 1:57 Bonus track on CD reissue
Disc 2 "In a Mellow Tone" (Ellington, Milt Gabler) - 2:36 "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) - 2:31 "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington) - 2:50 "Jeep's Blues" (Ellington, Johnny Hodges) - 3:50 "Mood Indigo" (Bigard, Ellington, Mills) - 11:02 Bonus track on CD reissue "Perdido" (Juan Tizol) - 4:32 "Satin Doll" (Ellington, Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer) - 4:48 Bonus track on CD reissue "A Disarming Visit by June Christy & Stan Kenton" - 2:56 "Newport Up" (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 5:03 Bonus track on CD reissue "Medley: Black and Tan Fantasy/Creole Love Call/The Mooche" (Ellington, Strayhorn, James "Bubber" Miley) - 9:19 "Passion Flower" (Strayhorn) 5:13 "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 4:29 "El Gato" (Anderson) - 4:18 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel Duke Ellington – piano (tracks 1.2-2.13) Billy Strayhorn – piano (tracks 1.1 & 1.14) Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker, Willie Cook, Clark Terry – trumpet Ray Nance – trumpet, violin Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman – trombone John Sanders – valve trombone Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, tenor saxophone Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone Russell Procope – alto saxophone, clarinet Paul Gonsalves – tenor saxophone Harry Carney – baritone saxophone Jimmy Woode – bass (tracks 1.1-2.6 & 2.8-2.13) Johnny Pate – bass (track 2.7) Sam Woodyard – drums James "Jimmy" Johnson Jr. – drums
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