The Treasury Shows, Vol. 24, by Duke Ellington

The Treasury Shows, Vol. 24

by Duke Ellington

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1.	Take the a Train. 01:16	buy track
2.	Harlem Air Shaft 03:11	buy track
3.	Creole Love Call 04:03	buy track
4.	C Jam Blues 05:01	buy track
5.	Is It a Sin 03:00	buy track
6.	Just A-Settin and a Rockin' 04:19	buy track
7.	Moonlight Fiesta 04:02	buy track
8.	Moonlight Fiesta 02:43	buy track
9.	The Hawk Talks, Pt.1 01:59	buy track
10.	Take the a Train 2 01:18	buy track
11.	Blue Jean Beguine 03:53	buy track
12.	Boo Dah 03:37	buy track
13.	Cocktails for Two 03:50	buy track
14.	Nothin'nothin; Baby 02:55	buy track
15.	Jump fo R Joy 03:54	buy track
16.	Perdido 04:35	buy track
17.	Blue Moon 04:13	buy track
18.	Satin' Doll #2 01:24	buy track
19.	Take the a Train # 3 00:46	buy track
20.	Concerto for Cootie 03:29	buy track
21.	Johnny Come Lately 03:01	buy track
22.	My Heart Tells Me 02:01	buy track
23.	Blue Skies 03:25	buy track
24.	Things Ain't What They Used to Be 00:27	buy track
25.	Take the a Train 00:51	buy track
26.	Caravan 03:55	buy track
27.	I Let a Song Go out of My Heart & Don't Get Around Much Anymore 04:16	buy track
28.	Bond Promo 00:29	buy track
29.	The Hawk Talks 03:52	buy track
30.	Come on Home 03:03	buy track
31.	Flamingo 02:53	buy track
32.	Bond Promo #2 00:54	buy track
33.	Jump for Joy 03:31	buy track
34.	Satin Doll 03:36	buy track
35.	Take the a Train #2 02:09	buy track
36.	Take the a Train #3 03:02	buy track
37.	The Tatooed Bride 10:48	buy track
38.	Bond Promo #3 00:49	buy track
39.	Nothin'nothin; Baby #2 03:26	buy track
40.	Rock Skippin' at the Blue Note 03:03	buy track
41.	Just Squeeze 03:43	buy track
42.	Ting-a-Ling 03:36	buy track
43.	Satin Doll #2 01:09	buy track

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Storyville Records presents: Volume 24 in the Duke Ellington Treasury Shows series, now approaching the end of this collectors’ special broadcast series. In April 1945, to promote the sale of war bonds, the US Treasury Department contacted Duke Ellington to do a series of 55 min public broadcasts. These sessions would give Ellington a wide choice of material to perform including his older work; new instrumentals and pop tunes and his extended works as well.

This double CD contains a series of different radio NBC broadcasts from the famous Blue Note club in Chicago, Illinois from the summer of 1953. The CD set also incudes a bonus recording from April 1944, a MBS broadcast from the Hurricane Restaurant in New York City. The broadcasts are featured complete with radio speaks and encouragements to buy bonds read by The Duke himself, plus bonus material and liner notes.

Ulf W. Lundin, writer of the liner notes, explains: “With this volume of the DETS series, we jump seven years ahead in the life and career of Duke Ellington. Volume 23 ended with a broadcast form the Aquarium Restaurant in NYC, 1946. Now we are in Chicago, Illinois, at the Blue Note and in 1953.” The Second World War had ended, and the “swing era” was also coming to a halt, as musical tastes had changed. Many big bands disbanded, and in 1953, Ellington was the only big band leader still playing. His popularity wasn’t what it had been in the mid-40’s, but the emergence of jazz clubs like Blue Note, Birdland and Storyville helped him find engagements and play for a more listening than dancing audience. Furthermore, the clubs were well-connected with radio stations and networks, allowing for the Treasury Show tapes to come to life.

The broadcasts on CD 1 from 1953 are the first ones in the DETS series without U.S. Government bond promotion, and were transmitted in the NBC “Music For Modern” series. The Blue Note broadcasts begins with Clark Terry, “the phenomenal trumpet player” on “Harlem Air Shaft”, and continues with classics such as “Jump for Joy”, “Satin Doll”. There’s also “a little bit nostalgic reaching back into the roaring 20’s”, as Duke says on the tape, with the romantic baritone Jimmy Grissom singing “Is It A Sin?”. It differs from other recordings from this time, among other qualities, by having Willie Cook play an extraordinarily sweet-sounding trumpet and Ray Nance on trumpet bursting through the soundscape. The broadcasts are less superficially flamboyant than some of the studio recordingd by Duke at the same time, and therefore more intense and thus effective.

CD 2 includes two broadcasts from the “All Star Parade of Bands” series played at the Blue Note, Chicago. NBC launched this series in early 1953 together with the United Federation of Musicians to use jazz and other popular artists to promote the Treasury Departments Savings Bond Program. From July 1953 at the Blue Note, we’re treated to live versions of “Caravan”, “The Tattooed Bride” plus Ellington recounting the story behind the song for the audience, and the hit single “Flamingo”.

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released April 19, 2018

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

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Storyville Records is Europe’s oldest independent jazz label. It releases a rich variety of jazz, blues and related musical genres, often accompanied by authoritative notes and rare extras. This iconic label was founded in 1952 in Denmark and today continues to augment its historic catalogue of recordings made by American jazz and blues legends with new releases from contemporary jazz artists. ... more

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