 | Jazz Royalty: Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington
Buy new: $38.98 / Used from: $24.99 This goes beyond one giant pays homage to another. Earl Hines recorded 3 CDs worth of Ellington songs over 4 years. Highlights include Black Butterfly.
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 | A Drum Is a Woman by Claude Bolling
Buy used from: $0.01 Bolling has recorded many Ellington albums, but this is my favorite. He records Ellington's history of jazz in full. Highlights include Hey Buddy Bolden and Congo Square.
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 | Plan #46 by Rigmor Gustafsson
Alice Babs sang with Ellington in his Sacred Concerts. This CD was recorded after his death. It is one of the most heartfelt tributes to Duke Ellington. Highlights include "I Like the Sunrise."
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 | Prelude to a Kiss: The Duke Ellington Album by Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Buy used from: $4.67 Bli-Blip, Night Creature and Caravan are the highlights.
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 | 100 Years of Duke Ellington by The European Broadcasting Union Jazz Orchestra
Buy used from: $0.78 Late Ellingon gems like Togo Brava Suite and Purple Gazelle highlight this recording. There's also a thirty minute hits medly.
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 | The Symphonic Ellington: Night Creature
Buy used from: $40.03 Exciting and innovative versions of Night Creature, New World A-Comin' and two movements of Three Black Kings highlight this recording.
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 | Far East Suite
Buy used from: $8.00 The Asian American Orchestra doesn't do a remake of the Ellington Stayhorn suite, but rather they reinterpret it in their own way. "Tourist Point of View" is my favorite.
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 | Duke Ellington's Sound of Love by The Vienna Art Orchestra
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $12.35 This isn't your father's Ellington. I took me a few listens to like the VAO's versions of Ellington's and Strayhorn's songs, but now I go wow. A post-modern intepretation of swing.
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 | New World A'Comin': Classical and Jazz Connection
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $11.63 Delony records Makholm and Brubeck as well as Ellington here. The highlight is his solo version of New World A' Comin'.
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 | Live in Swing City - Swingin' With Duke by Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis
Buy used from: $0.84 Straight ahead big band jazz from the LCJO. The highlight here is "Portrait of Louis Armstrong."
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 | Marcus Roberts Plays Ellington by Marcus Roberts
Buy used from: $3.33 This CD is a compilation of previously released Ellington material. The hilites are the two versions of Mood Indigo and A Single Petal of a Rose.
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 | Ultimate Ellington by Crown Project
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $0.78 Contemtory interpretations of Ellington material. La Plus Belle Africane is the highlight.
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 | Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony; Ellington: Suite From the "River," "Solitude" by Neeme Jarvi
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $7.98 Chandos has collected three Ellington pieces (The River, Harlem, and Solitude) on to one CD along with Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony. The music is superb.
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 | Plays Duke Ellington by Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra
Buy used from: $122.63 The Danish Radio Jazz Orchesta recorded this tribute to Ellington in 1999. In a Mellotone, Main Stem and The Second Line are the highlights here.
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 | Duke Ellington's Sacred Music by Big Band de Lausanne
Buy used from: $21.98 Though the choir is small, only 8 voices, they are one of the highlight of this recording. I liked The Shepherd and Praise God and Dance.
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