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Credits

Lead Performance: Duke Ellington; Genre: Jazz

The hallmarks of Duke Ellington's Jungle Band — growling brass that hinted of danger and strange-sounding reed harmonies that skinned the ears of '20s sophisticates — have never sounded more vibrant than on this volume of his earliest hits, Duke Ellington, Vol. 1 (1927-34). Original recordings of ''The Mooche,'' ''Black and Tan Fantasy,'' and ''Creole Love Call'' — numbers that belong in any basic jazz collection — have been brilliantly remastered in digital stereo. A


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Posted Jun 24, 1994
 

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