Featuring Paul Gonsalves

Featuring Paul Gonsalves

Studio album by Duke Ellington
Released	1985
Recorded	May 1, 1962
Genre	Jazz
Label	Fantasy

Featuring Paul Gonsalves is an album by American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader Duke Ellington. Without new material to work with, Ellington recorded the album with his orchestra and saxophonist Paul Gonsalves in 1962 during a four-hour recording session. It was not released until 1985 by Fantasy Records.^[1]

Critical reception

Writing for Playboy, Robert Christgau said while his own tastes in jazz ran to bebop rather than Ellington's big band, Gonsalves' performance highly impressed him: "It goes without saying that Gonsalves shows more sonic and harmonic imagination than such R&B contemporaries (and heroes of my youth) as Lee Allen and Sam 'The Man' Taylor. The beauty is that he's not above outhonking them as well."^[1] The AllMusic review by Stephen Cook awarded the album four ouf of five stars and stated, "Gonsalves turns this one-off session into one of the more enjoyable titles in Ellington's catalog".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated.

"C Jam Blues" (Barney Bigard, Ellington) - 5:14
"Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) - 5:43
"Happy Go Lucky Local" - 5:03
"Jam With Sam" - 3:18
"Caravan" (Ellington, Irving Mills, Juan Tizol) - 6:12
"Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'" (Ellington, Lee Gaines, Strayhorn) - 4:49
"Paris Blues" - 3:30
"Ready, Go!" (Ellington, Strayhorn) - 5:01

- Recorded at A & R Studio, New York on May 1, 1962

Personnel

Duke Ellington – piano
Ray Nance - cornet
Cat Anderson, Bill Berry, Roy Burrowes - trumpet
Lawrence Brown, Leon Cox - trombone
Chuck Connors - bass trombone
Jimmy Hamilton - clarinet, tenor saxophone
Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope - alto saxophone
Paul Gonsalves - tenor saxophone
Harry Carney - baritone saxophone
Aaron Bell - bass
Sam Woodyard - drums

References

1 2 Christgau, Robert (August 1985). "Hüsker Dü, Katrina and the Waves, Duke Ellington/Paul Gonsalves". Playboy. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
↑ Cook, S. Allmusic Review accessed June 16, 2010

External links

Featuring Paul Gonsalves at Discogs (list of releases)

Duke Ellington

Studio albums

Live albums

Collaborations

with Alice Babs	Serenade to Sweden

with Count Basie	First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

with Teresa Brewer	It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

with Rosemary Clooney	Blue Rose

with John Coltrane	Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

with Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook Ella at Duke's Place The Stockholm Concert, 1966 Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur

with Coleman Hawkins	Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

with Frank Sinatra	Francis A. & Edward K.

Compositions

"All Too Soon"
"Azure"
"Black and Tan Fantasy"
"Black, Brown and Beige"
"C Jam Blues"
"Cotton Tail"
"Day Dream"
"Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue"
"Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me"
"Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
"Drop Me Off in Harlem"
"Echoes of Harlem"
"Everything But You"
"I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues"
"I Didn't Know About You"
"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)"
"I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart"
"I'm Beginning to See the Light"
"I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So"
"In a Mellow Tone"
"In a Sentimental Mood"
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
"Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'"
"Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)"
"Mood Indigo"
" Prelude to a Kiss"
"Rocks in My Bed"
"(In My) Solitude"
"Sophisticated Lady"

Billy Strayhorn compositions associated with Ellington	"Take the "A" Train" "Lush Life" "Chelsea Bridge" "Something to Live For" "Satin Doll" "Blood Count"

Juan Tizol compositions associated with Ellington	"Caravan" "Perdido"

Orchestra
members

Filmography

Discography

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