Blues To Be There
Newport Jazz Festival
Recorded in performance at the American Jazz Festival at Newport, R.I., on July 7, 1956
Columbia CL 934
From Billboard - December 29, 1956: Herein is the Ellington performance that stampeded last summer's Jazz Festival and brought the Duke back into the jazz picture, but good. The number that blew things apart was "Diminuendo" and Crescendo in Blue," with its 27 consecutive tenor sax choruses by Paul Gonsalves. One can hear and feel the crowd and then the band catch fire. Unfortunately, Gonsalves was off the recording mike throat, or this package could be a runaway. As is, it will only be a hit. Rounding it out is the fine new "Newport Jazz Festival Suite" and a remake of "Jeep's Blues," featuring the wonderful Johnny Hodges.
Festival Junction
Blues To Be There
Newport Up
Jeep's Blues
Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue
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