| Diminuendo, Crescendo and Blues | ||||
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| Recorded | November 15, 1958 | |||
| Studio | Munich | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 36:02 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Paul Gonsalves chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Diminuendo, Crescendo and Blues is an album recorded in 1958 by the C Jam All-Stars led by Paul Gonsalves.
The album was recorded in Munich on November 15, 1958, [2] during a Duke Ellington orchestra tour of Europe. [1] The musicians are tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves, trumpeter Clark Terry, local pianist Carlos Diernhammer, bassist Jimmy Woode, and drummer Sam Woodyard. [1] The material "is a mix of Ellington tunes, a couple of standards, and five songs written by Terry or Gonsalves". [1]
Diminuendo, Crescendo and Blues was released in Germany by Bertelsmann Record Club. [1] It was reissued on CD in the US by RCA Victor in 1999. [1] The AllMusic reviewer commented on the brief running time of the CD version, but concluded that the album was "highly recommended". [1]
Paul Gonsalves was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue," a performance credited with revitalizing Ellington's waning career in the 1950s.
Ellington at Newport is a 1956 live jazz album by Duke Ellington and his band of their 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, a concert which revitalized Ellington's flagging career. Jazz promoter George Wein describes the 1956 concert as "the greatest performance of [Ellington's] career... It stood for everything that jazz had been and could be." It is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, which ranks it "one of the most famous... in jazz history". The original release was partly recreated in the studio after the Ellington Orchestra's festival appearance.
"Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" is a jazz composition written in 1937 by Duke Ellington and recorded for the first time on May 15, 1937 by the Duke Ellington Orchestra with Wallace Jones, Cootie Williams (trumpet), Rex Stewart (cornet), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick, Laurence Brown, Joe Nanton (trombone), Harry Carney, Sonny Greer (drums), Wellmann Braud (bass), Freddie Guy (guitar), and Duke Ellington (piano). No tenor saxophone was present in this recording section, nor in "Crescendo in Blue," which was recorded the same day. In its early form, the two individual pieces, "Diminuendo in Blue" and "Crescendo in Blue," were recorded on opposite sides of a 78 rpm record. The 1956 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival revitalized Ellington's career, making newspaper headlines when seated audience members chaotically began rising to dance and stand on their chairs during Paul Gonsalves's tenor saxophone solo.
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