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Festival Session

1959 studio album by Duke Ellington

Festival Session is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for the Columbia Records label in 1959.[1] The album was rereleased on CD in 2004 with two bonus tracks.

According to the original liner notes by Irving Townsend Ellington waited with the recording of the new material till the end of the festival season, before he started the recording session in New York and finally recorded the whole album "from 8 a.m. to Noon".

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Reception

The Allmusic reviewer Ken Dryden stated: "Duke Ellington was constantly composing new material as well as creating new arrangements of vintage works, as heard on this Columbia LP recorded in 1959... Long one of the classic sleepers awaiting discovery in Duke Ellington's considerable discography... Highly recommended".[2]

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Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated

LP Side A

  1. "Perdido" (Juan Tizol) – 4:36
  2. "Copout Extension" – 8:19
  3. "Duael Fuel, Part 1" (Ellington, Clark Terry) – 2:45
  4. "Duael Fuel, Part 2" (Ellington, Terry) – 1:43
  5. "Duael Fuel, Part 3" (Ellington, Terry) – 6:17

LP side B

  1. "Idiom '59, Part 1" – 2:02
  2. "Idiom '59, Part 2" – 4:36
  3. "Idiom '59, Part 3" – 7:06
  4. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington) – 3:00
  5. "Launching Pad" (Ellington, Terry) – 7:37

Bonus tracks on 2004 CD re-issue

  2. "V.I.P.'s Boogie" – 2:57
  3. "Jam With Sam" – 3:17

Personnel

References

  1. [1]
    A Duke Ellington Panorama accessed May 18, 2010
  2. [2]
    Dryden, K. Allmusic Review accessed May 18, 2010
  3. [3]
    DeMichael, Don (17 March 1960). "Duke Ellington: Festival Session". DownBeat. Vol. 27, no. 6. pp. 34–36.
  4. [4]
    Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 69. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. [5]
    Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 435. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  • Columbia CS 8200
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