Arguably Mingus's greatest recording! Featuring John Handy, Booker Ervin, Jimmy Knepper, Horace Parlan, Dannie Richmond and many others, tracks include "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," "Better Git It in Your Soul," "Fables of Faubus," "Jelly Roll" and other classics. This 20-bit digitally remastered edition boasts 3 bonus tracks, 6 tracks in unedited form for the 1st time, brilliant new liners, and great, rare session shots!
Rediscover the 1959 classic through this 20-bit remastered version with a bonus track: an alternate take of Flamenco Sketches. Recorded at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City on March 2, 1959 (tracks 1–3) and April 22, 1959 (tracks 4–6). Remixed from the original three-track tapes at Sony Music Studios, using a Presto all-tube, three-track recorder.
To coincide with the centennial celebration of the great Duke Ellington, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (under the direction of Wynton Marsalis) returns with a new album of all Ellington compositions, featuring performances by Cyrus Chestnut, Dianne Reeves and Illinois Jacquet. This "live" album was recorded as a companion to a PBS documentary on Ellington (to air May '99), and kicks off the Orchestra's world tour and the release of Jump for Joy, a literary homage to Duke Ellington.
