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Francis A. Sinatra & Edward K. Ellington

Francis A. Sinatra & Edward K. Ellington
Frank Sinatra w, Duke Ellington

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Track Listing

  1. Follow Me [From Camelot]
  2. Sunny
  3. All I Need Is the Girl [From Gypsy]
  4. Indian Summer
  5. I Like the Sunrise
  6. Yellow Days
  7. Poor Butterfly
  8. Come Back to Me [From On a Clear Day You Can See Forever]

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #125596 in Music
  • Released on: 1999-05-11
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

The Dynamic Duo4
OK, so the critics found this not to be a wonderful recording effort. I frankly have always liked this album as much as any from Sinatra, and Ellington's band...my favorite band ever. The fact that I couldn't find it in CD format was upsetting to me...the original LP was showing its age. It is now available and it does swing! Poor Butterfly is one of my favorites, followed closely by All I Need Is The Girl. It is in my top 10 albums.

If you're so smart, why ain't you rich?5
Am I missing something? This has been one of my favorite Sinatra discs since I picked up the LP on Frank's Reprise label back in the 1970s. Even then it was in the cutouts for 33 cents?! You tell me, how can a recording by arguably the greatest pop singer of the 20th century with the greatest big band of any century be so woefully overlooked?

Is the music just too good, too mature, too deep and heartfelt to be popular? This is right up there with 'Only the Lonely' and 'Songs for Swingin' Lovers' as Sinatra's best and it came SO MUCH later in what I have always regarded as a dry spell for him.

'Francis A & Edward K' IS dry, but in a good way. Heraclitus said, "A dry soul is wisest and best." After listening to the version of `Indian Summer' on this recording, I could not agree more! This one is straight, no chaser. Smooth and true.

Absolutely marvelous5
What can I say about this wonderful album? I got it in 1986 and have been listening to it ever since. The style, professionalism, and musicality saturate everything here. I would give a lot to hear more of these sessions. This was indeed a dream team, with Ellington "sad, but wisely sad" and Sinatra smooth and simmering. This is an album I get for people I really like.