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Early Ellington: The Complete Brunswick and Vocalion Recordings of Duke Ellington, 1926-1931 (1994)
Duke Ellington
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Lead Performance: Duke Ellington
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A major reissue, Early Ellington: The Complete Brunswick and Vocalion Recordings of Duke Ellington, 1926-1931 is the first-ever complete set of these recordings. Such masterworks as ''Creole Rhapsody'' and ''Black Beauty'' stand alongside delightful rarities (including numbers with the legendary Bill ''Bojangles'' Robinson), plus some not-so- delightful ones (a white singer, Dick Robertson, affecting a stereotypical black dialect on ''Is That Religion?''). Ellington's genius for orchestration elevates them all. A-
Posted Dec 02, 1994
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