Ella at Duke's Place

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Ella at Duke's Place
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Studio album by
Released1965
RecordedOctober 18,19,20, 1965
Studio United, Hollywood
Genre Jazz
Length47:04
Label Verve
Producer Norman Granz
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(1984)
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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.

Contents

Track listing

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:

  1. "Something to Live For" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 3:35
  2. "A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing" (a.k.a. "Passion") (Strayhorn) – 5:00
  3. "Passion Flower" (Strayhorn) – 4:39
  4. "I Like the Sunrise" – 3:26
  5. "Azure" (Irving Mills) – 6:48

Side Two:

  1. "Imagine My Frustration" (Strayhorn, Gerald Stanley Wilson) – 4:49
  2. "Duke's Place" (a.k.a. "C Jam Blues") (Bill Katz, Ruth Roberts, Bob Thiele) – 4:13
  3. "Brown-skin Gal (in the Calico Gown)" (Paul Francis Webster) – 5:05
  4. "What Am I Here For?" (Frankie Laine) – 5:35
  5. "Cotton Tail" – 3:41

Personnel

Tracks 1-10

Album produced by Norman Granz
Engineering by Val Valentin

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References

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  2. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 493. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.