Ellington, Duke - Ellington Uptown TGSS551.1 downplaying sonic pyrotechnics in favor

downplaying sonic pyrotechnics in favor of a song-focused ensemble approach that would lay the groundwork for his successful solo career

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Ellington, Duke - Ellington Uptown TGSS551.1 downplaying sonic pyrotechnics in favorEven back in the early 50s, Columbia Records took Duke Ellington seriously enough to place this album on its prestigious Masterworks label, heretofore reserved mostly for highbrow classical music and Broadway shows. Also, this LP explodes the critical line that the early 50s was a relatively fallow period for the Duke; any of these smoking, concert length tracks will torpedo that notion. The young Louis Bellson was powering the Ellington band at that