Mercer Ellington & The Duke Ellington Orchestra - Harlem Throwbacks (2017)
Mercer Ellington & The Duke Ellington Orchestra - Harlem Throwbacks (2017)
Jazz | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:29:30 | 70 MB
Label: Squatty Roo Records
Jazz | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:29:30 | 70 MB
Label: Squatty Roo Records
In the mid 1980s Mercer Ellington, the son of legendary American Composer/Bandleader Duke Ellington made several attempts to get his father’s posthumous big band in the studio to record albums in order to stay relevant. While recording in L.A., he employed both East Coast and West Coast nuclei, which were utilized for Mercer’s touring band. On Harlem Throwbacks, the focus was to do modern recreations of records made in the Cotton Club days of the late 1920s up to the early 1940s. Several Duke Ellington alumni were present for this outing, such as Harold Minerve, Art Baron, Rocky White, Anita Moore, Barrie Lee Hall, and Chuck Connors. It is quite interesting to hear these classic arrangements re-recorded in digital stereo in 1984.
TRACKLIST
01. Hot And Bothered
02. The Mooche
03. Creole Love Call
04. Daybreak Express
05. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
06. Caravan
07. Echoes Of Harlem
08. Ring Dem Bells
09. Harlem Speaks