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artist: duke ellington
title: first time the count meets the duke
date: 1999
label: Columbia/Legacy
genre: Jazz
rls. date: Mar/27/2004
tracks: 16
bitrate: VBRkbps
size: 107,6 MB
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The 1999 remastering (Columbia-Legacy 65571) supercedes all
previous editions, CD or vinyl, of the 1961 album First Time!
The Count Meets the Duke, and not just because of the superior
sound and the presence of five bonus tracks that add 27 minutes
to the running time, although that's a big part of it. The
sound is improved, making the original CD release seem like a
copy of the LP, from the opening bars of the rollicking "Battle
Royal," with that bass right up front. The Sonny Cohn and Ray
Nance trumpet dialogue, and the Jimmy Hamilton clarinet and
Budd Johnson tenor sax duet on "Take the A-Train" are more
thickly textured and more "there" than on any previous
incarnation, and Willie Cook's trumpet and Paul Gonsalves'
tenor sax solo on "Corner Pocket" are gorgeously vivid. As
important as anything else here, the closer sound captures the
really hard, swinging nature of the performance on numbers like
the bluesy "Segue in C" and "Jumpin' at the Woodside." The new
notes, by bassist Aaron Bell and reissue co-producer Phil
Schaap, also provide extraordinary insights into the making of
this record ù with the album recorded more as a genial
get-together than an old-style battle of the bands, and
packaging only awaiting the approval of Basie, the Count balked
at the "Battle Royal" title and jacket design, and his manager,
Teddy Reig, supposedly flushed the only copy of the latter down
the men's room toilet, thus forcing a reconsideration of the
whole concept. The result was a hastily designed cover for an
obscurely titled album that Columbia was never fully behind in
marketing ù that it's lingered this long is, thus, even more of
a testament to the power of the music and the good feelings
from the sessions. ù Bruce Eder
-All Music Guide
http://www.sonymusicstore.com
1999 Columbia/Legacy #65571
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01-battle royal [05:35]
02-to you [03:55]
03-take the a train [03:48]
04-corner pocket (aka until i met you) [04:55]
05-wild man (aka wild man moore) [06:23]
06-segue in c [08:23]
07-bdb [04:45]
08-jumpin' at the woodside [03:14]
09-one more once [03:27]
10-take the a train (alternate take) [05:51]
11-jumpin' at the woodside (alternate take) [03:15]
12-bdb (alternate take) [04:30]
13-blues in hoss' flat (blues in frankie's flat) [03:15]
14-wild man (alternate take) [05:56]
15-battle royal (alternate take) [06:32]
16-pause track [00:07]
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73:51 min
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