The Girl's Suite and The Perfume Suite

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The Girl's Suite and The Perfume Suite
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Compilation album by
Released1982
RecordedDecember 2 and 9, 1957 and September 19 and 20, 1961
StudioColumbia Studio, Los Angeles and New York City
Genre Jazz
Label Columbia
FC 38028
Producer Irving Townsend/Teo Macero
Duke Ellington chronology
First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
(1961)
The Girl's Suite and The Perfume Suite
(1982)
All American in Jazz
(1962)

The Girl's Suite and The Perfume Suite is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington compiling recordings from 1957 and 1961 which were released on the Columbia label in 1982. [1]

Contents

Re The Perfume Suite, as per Stanley Dance in the original album notes, "Originally premiered at Carnegie Hall on 19 December 1944, this four-part work was a deliberate attempt to dazzle a seated audience. 'The premise behind it,' Ellington wrote in Music Is My Mistress, 'was what perfume does to or for the woman who is wearing it, and each part portrayed the mood a woman gets into – or would like to get into – when wearing a certain type of perfume.'"

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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated, "Overall, this set is mostly comprised of lesser Ellington pieces, but it is certainly not without its interesting moments." [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington except where noted.

  1. "Girls" – 2:41
  2. "Mahalia" – 3:12
  3. "Peg o' My Heart" (Fred Fisher, Alfred Bryan) – 2:59
  4. "Sweet Adeline" (Harry Armstrong) – 2:49
  5. "Juanita" – 3:18
  6. "Sylvia" – 2:41
  7. "Lena" – 2:13
  8. "Dinah" (Harry Akst, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) – 2:33
  9. "Clementine" (arranged Ellington) – 2:48
  10. "Diane" (Ernö Rapée, Lew Pollack) – 2:37
  11. "Under the Balcony" – 2:55
  12. "Strange Feeling" – 3:53
  13. "Dancers in Love" – 2:17
  14. "Coloratura" – 2:50

Personnel

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References

  1. A Duke Ellington Panorama accessed June 16, 2010
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Duke Ellington: The Girl's Suite and the Perfume Suite – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved August 18, 2017.