Caravan Suite

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Caravan Suite
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Studio album by Paul Bley
Released 1993
Recorded April 18, 1992
Studio SteepleChase Digital Studio, Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre Jazz
Length56:02
Label SteepleChase SCCD 31316
Producer Nils Winther
Paul Bley chronology
Annette
(1992)		Caravan Suite
(1993)		 Homage To Carla
(1992)

Caravan Suite is an album of compositions by Duke Ellington performed by pianist Paul Bley which was recorded in Denmark in 1992 and released on the SteepleChase label. [1] [2]

Duke Ellington American jazz musician, composer and band leader

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than fifty years.

Paul Bley Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist

Hyman Paul Bley, CM was a Canadian pianist known for his contributions to the free jazz movement of the 1960s as well as his innovations and influence on trio playing and his early live performance on the Moog and Arp audio synthesizers. Bley was a long-time resident of the United States. His music has been described by Ben Ratliff of the New York Times as "deeply original and aesthetically aggressive". Bley's prolific output includes influential recordings from the 1950s through to his solo piano records of the 2000s.

SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time. He began recording performances at Jazzhus Montmartre, where many American expatriates played, and was given permission by some of the artists to release the material on record.

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote that the "piano is very crisp and exact, suiting the material admirably." [3]

<i>The Penguin Guide to Jazz</i> book

The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which are currently available in Europe or the United States. The first nine editions were compiled by Richard Cook and Brian Morton, two well known chroniclers of jazz resident in the United Kingdom.

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington

  1. "Caravan Suite:" – 32:57
    1. "Section 1" – 7:21
    2. "Section 2" – 7:40
    3. "Section 3" – 8:55
    4. "Section 4" – 7:02
  2. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" – 7:30
  3. "(In My) Solitude" – 11:06
  4. "I'm Beginning to See the Light" – 6:17

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Paul Bley catalog, accessed March 22, 2017
  2. ↑ SteepleChase Productions ApS, accessed March 22, 2017
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 141. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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