Festival Session

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FieldValue
nameFestival Session
typeAlbum
artistDuke Ellington
coverFestival Session.jpg
released1959
recordedSeptember 8, 1959
studioColumbia 30th Street (New York)
genreJazz
labelColumbia
chronologyDuke Ellington
prev_titleLive at the Blue Note
prev_year1959
next_titleBlues in Orbit
next_year1959
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| name = Festival Session | type = Album | artist = Duke Ellington | cover = Festival Session.jpg | alt = | released = 1959 | recorded = September 8, 1959 | venue = | studio = Columbia 30th Street (New York) | genre = Jazz | length = | label = Columbia | producer = | chronology = Duke Ellington | prev_title = Live at the Blue Note | prev_year = 1959 | next_title = Blues in Orbit | next_year = 1959

Festival Session is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington, recorded for the Columbia Records label in 1959. 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".

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". | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = | rev2 = DownBeat | rev2score = |rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |rev3score = |rev4 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |rev4Score = {{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 69

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
  6. "Idiom '59, Part 1" – 2:02
  7. "Idiom '59, Part 2" – 4:36
  8. "Idiom '59, Part 3" – 7:06
  9. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington) – 3:00
  10. "Launching Pad" (Ellington, Terry) – 7:37 Bonus tracks on 2004 CD re-issue
  11. "V.I.P.'s Boogie" – 2:57
  12. "Jam With Sam" – 3:17

Personnel

References

  • Columbia CS 8200

References

  1. "A Duke Ellington Panorama".
  2. Dryden, K. [{{AllMusic
  3. DeMichael, Don. (17 March 1960). "Duke Ellington: ''Festival Session''".
  4. (2008). "[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz". [[Penguin Books.

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