INTIMATE ELLINGTON: BALLADS & BLUES

$19.99
Label
CRISS CROSS
Release Date
February 26, 2013
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      GORDON, WYCLIFFE
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 26, 2013
    • UPC
      8712474135325
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CSS1353.2
    • LABEL
      CRISS CROSS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Pie Eye's Blues

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Wycliffe Gordon, Adrian Cunningham, Zach Brock, Yasushi Nakamura, Aaron Diehl, Alvin Atkinson Jr.

    2. Jeep's blues

      Composer: Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges

      Performer: Wycliffe Gordon, Adrian Cunningham, Zach Brock, Yasushi Nakamura, Aaron Diehl, Alvin Atkinson Jr.

    3. I Got it Bad and That Ain't Good

      Composer: Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn

      Performer: Dee Daniels, Wycliffe Gordon, Adrian Cunningham, Zach Brock, Yasushi Nakamura, Aaron Diehl, Alvin Atkinson Jr.

    4. Creole Love Call

      Composer: Bert Miley, Duke Ellington

      Performer: Wycliffe Gordon, Adrian Cunningham, Zach Brock, Yasushi Nakamura, Aaron Diehl, Alvin Atkinson Jr.

    5. Stevie

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Wycliffe Gordon, Adrian Cunningham, Zach Brock, Yasushi Nakamura, Aaron Diehl, Alvin Atkinson Jr.

    6. The Intimacy of the Blues

      Composer: Billy Strayhorn

      Performer: Wycliffe Gordon, Adrian Cunningham, Zach Brock, Yasushi Nakamura, Aaron Diehl, Alvin Atkinson Jr.

    7. Lotus Blossom

      Composer: Billy Strayhorn

      Performer: Dee Daniels, Wycliffe Gordon, Adrian Cunningham, Zach Brock, Yasushi Nakamura, Aaron Diehl, Alvin Atkinson Jr.

    8. Something Sexual

      Composer: Duke Ellington

      Performer: Wycliffe Gordon, Adrian Cunningham, Zach Brock, Yasushi Nakamura, Aaron Diehl, Alvin Atkinson Jr.

    9. Sophisticated Lady

      Composer: Duke Ellington, Otto Hardwick

      Performer: Wycliffe Gordon, Adrian Cunningham, Zach Brock, Yasushi Nakamura, Aaron Diehl, Alvin Atkinson Jr.

    10. Caravan

      Composer: Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington

      Performer: Wycliffe Gordon, Adrian Cunningham, Zach Brock, Yasushi Nakamura, Aaron Diehl, Alvin Atkinson Jr.


On his eighth Criss Cross leader date, Wycliffe Gordon (awarded 2012 Trombonist of the Year by both the DownBeat Critics Poll and the Jazz Journalists' Asssociation) distills his exhaustive knowledge of the oeuvre of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn on a wellcrafted, ten-piece program spanning a timeline from 1927 (Creole Love Call) to 1967 (The Intimacy of the Blues).