Piano in the Foreground
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Released | 1961 | |||
Recorded | March 1 & 2, 1961 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
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Piano in the Foreground is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded and released on the Columbia label in 1961.[1] It features Ellington in a piano trio setting, emphasising his own keyboard prowess rather than the big band arrangements more typical of his recordings.
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | Not rated[2] |
Track listing[]
:All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated
- "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) - 4:23
- "Cong-Go" (Aaron Bell, Ellington) - 4:16
- "Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) - 4:49
- "Blues for Jerry" - 4:38
- "Fontainebleau Forest" - 2:53
- "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) - 3:52
- "It's Bad to Be Forgotten" - 3:22
- "A Hundred Dreams Ago" - 2:26
- "So" - 4:33
- "Searching (Pleading for Love)" - 1:49
- "Springtime in Africa" (Bell, Ellington) - 3:46
- "Lotus Blossom" (Billy Strayhorn) - 3:18
- "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 4:00 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "All the Things You Are" [alternate take] (Hammerstein, Kern) - 3:51 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Piano Improvisation No. 2" - 3:25 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Piano Improvisation No. 3" - 2:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Piano Improvisation No. 4" - 1:53 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Piano Improvisation No. 1" - 9:45 Bonus track on CD reissue
- Recorded:
- at Columbia Records 30th Street Studio on March 20, 1957 (tracks 15-18) (stereo)
- at Columbia Records 30th Street Studio on October 10, 1957 (tracks 13-14) (monaural)
- at Radio Recorders, Los Angeles on March 1, 1961 (tracks 1-11) & March 2, 1961 (track 12) (stereo)
Personnel[]
- Duke Ellington – piano
- Aaron Bell - bass (#1-12)
- Jimmy Woode - bass (#13-18)
- Sam Woodyard - drums
References[]
- ^ A Duke Ellington Panorama Archived 2017-09-09 at the Wayback Machine accessed May 14, 2010
- ^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/piano-in-the-foreground-mw0001955818
Categories:
- Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz release group identifiers
- Columbia Records albums
- Duke Ellington albums
- 1961 albums