Portrait of a Lion - Jazz Characters

 
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Duke Ellington
Portrait of a Lion - Jazz Characters

[ Le Chant du Monde / 3 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 14 August 2015

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Duke Ellington is probably the only jazzman considered to be a true artist, far more celebrated as a composer than as a performer. He always saw his job as a musician as being the building of a body of work and his ambition was to create a new musical language capable of expressing in its very form the emotions, colours and personalities of black Americans.

Tracks:

CD 1
Portrait of a Lion
Jubilee stomp
Move over
Mississippi moan
The Lazy Duke
Blues of the vagabond
Syncopated shuffle
The Mooche
East St. Louis Toodle-O
Sweet mama
Hot and bothered
Black and tan fantasy
Rocky mountain blues
Old man blues
Lot o'fingers
Slippery horn
Indigo echoes
Caravan
Stompy Jones
Downtown uproar
Lament for lost love
Jazz à la carte
Moonlight fiesta
Sponge cake and spinach
Swing baby, swing
Jubilesta
Pigeons and peppers

CD 2
Portrait of a lion
My Sunday gal
Lament for Javanette
Dear old southland
The Giddy-bug gallop
Clementine
Subtle slough
Perdido
Jumping room only
Tonk
The Clothed woamn
Snibor
The New piano roll blues
Later
Primpin' at the Prom
Satin doll
Orson
Blossom
B-Sharp blues
Passion flower
Dancers in love
Things ain't what they used to be
Janet
Band call
Harlem Air-Shaft
Serious serenade

CD 3
Rubber bottom
Prelude to a kiss
Such sweet thunder
Bli-blip
Mood indigo
Solitude
23rd Psalm (Black, brown & beige)
Blues in orbit
Villes ville is the place, man
C-Jam blues
In a mellow tone
It don't mean a thing
Main stem
Black beauty
Tonight I shall sleep
Fontainebleau forest
A hundred dreams ago
Drop me off in Harlem
Take the "A" train
Paris blues
Warm valley
In a sentimental mood