Ella at Duke's Place is a 1965 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington, accompanied by his Orchestra. While it was the second (and last) studio album made by Fitzgerald and Ellington, following the 1957 song book recording, a live double album Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur was recorded in 1966. Ella at Duke’s Place was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 1967 Grammy Awards.
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| Released | 1965 | |||
| Recorded | October 18,19,20, 1965 | |||
| Studio | United, Hollywood | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 47:04 | |||
| Label | Verve | |||
| Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Track listing edit
For the 1965 Verve LP album, Verve V6-4070; re-issued by PolyGram-Verve on CD in 1996: Verve-PolyGram 529 700-2.
Side One:
- "Something to Live For" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 3:35
- "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing" (a.k.a. "Passion") (Strayhorn) – 5:00
- "Passion Flower" (Strayhorn) – 4:39
- "I Like the Sunrise" – 3:26
- "Azure" (Irving Mills) – 6:48
Side Two:
- "Imagine My Frustration" (Strayhorn, Gerald Stanley Wilson) – 4:49
- "Duke's Place" (a.k.a. "C Jam Blues") (Bill Katz, Ruth Roberts, Bob Thiele) – 4:13
- "Brown-skin Gal (in the Calico Gown)" (Paul Francis Webster) – 5:05
- "What Am I Here For?" (Frankie Laine) – 5:35
- "Cotton Tail" – 3:41
- All songs composed by Duke Ellington, with the exception of "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing" and "Passion Flower". Lyricists indicated.
- Recorded October 18,19,20 1965 at United Recorders, Hollywood, Los Angeles:
Personnel edit
Tracks 1-10
- Ella Fitzgerald – Vocals
- Duke Ellington – Conductor, composer, lyricist, arranger, piano
- Jimmy Jones – Arranger, piano
- Cat Anderson – Trumpet
- Mercer Ellington – Trumpet
- Herb Jones – Trumpet
- Cootie Williams – Trumpet
- Lawrence Brown – Trombone
- Buster Cooper – Trombone
- Chuck Connors – Bass trombone
- Johnny Hodges – Alto saxophone
- Russell Procope – Alto saxophone
- Paul Gonsalves – Tenor saxophone
- Jimmy Hamilton – Tenor saxophone, clarinet
- Harry Carney – Baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
- John Lamb – Bass
- Louis Bellson – Drums
Album produced by Norman Granz
Engineering by Val Valentin
References edit
- ^ "Ella at Duke's Place". Allmusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved 2011-08-07.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 493. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.