Afro-Bossa

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title: "Afro-Bossa" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["reprise-records-albums", "duke-ellington-albums", "1963-albums"] description: "1963 album by Duke Ellington" topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Bossa" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary 1963 album by Duke Ellington ::

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Field	Value
name	Afro-Bossa
type	Album
artist	Duke Ellington
cover	Afro-Bossa.jpg
released	April 1963
recorded	November 29, 1962, December 20, 1962, January 4 & 5, 1963
genre	Jazz
label	Reprise
chronology	Duke Ellington
prev_title	Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
prev_year	1963
next_title	The Great Paris Concert
next_year	1963
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| name = Afro-Bossa | type = Album | artist = Duke Ellington | cover = Afro-Bossa.jpg | alt = | released = April 1963 | recorded = November 29, 1962, December 20, 1962, January 4 & 5, 1963 | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = | label = Reprise | producer = | chronology = Duke Ellington | prev_title = Duke Ellington & John Coltrane | prev_year = 1963 | next_title = The Great Paris Concert | next_year = 1963

Afro-Bossa is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington, recorded and released on the Reprise label in 1963.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Ken Dryden stated: "This is easily one of Duke Ellington's essential studio recordings of the 1960s, though it isn't as widely recognized as it ought to be". | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = | rev2 = Down Beat | rev2Score =

Track listing

:All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated

1. "Afro-Bossa" – 4:22
2. "Purple Gazelle" (also recorded as "Angelica") – 2:44
3. "Absinthe" (Billy Strayhorn, originally copyrighted in 1941 as "Lament for an Orchid") – 3:34
4. "Moonbow" – 2:33
5. "Sempre Amore" – 3:14
6. "Caline (Silk Lace)" – 2:31
7. "Tigress" (Strayhorn, also recorded as "Telstar") – 3:06
8. "Angu" – 2:42
9. "Volupté" – 2:44
10. "Bonga" – 2:49
11. "Pyramid" (Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) – 3:03
12. "Eighth Veil" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 2:48

Recorded at Fine Studios, New York, on November 29, 1962 (track 9), December 14, 1962 (track 12), December 20, 1962 (tracks 6 & 11), January 4, 1963 (track 10), and January 5, 1963 (tracks 1–5, 7 & 8).

Personnel

• Duke Ellington – piano (tracks 1, 2, 4–7 & 9–11)
• Billy Strayhorn – piano (tracks 3 & 8)
• Ray Nance – cornet, violin
• Cat Anderson, Roy Burrowes, Cootie Williams – trumpet
• Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper – trombone
• Chuck Connors – bass trombone
• Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, tenor saxophone
• Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone
• Russell Procope – alto saxophone, clarinet
• Paul Gonsalves – tenor saxophone
• Harry Carney – baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
• Ernie Shepard – bass
• Sam Woodyard – drums

References

References

1. [http://www.depanorama.net/index.htm A Duke Ellington Panorama] {{Webarchive. link. (2017-09-09 accessed May 11, 2010)
2. Dryden, K. [{{AllMusic
3. [[Down Beat]]:May 23, 1963 Vol. 30, No. 12

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