The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World

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The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World
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Live album by
Various artists
Released1975
RecordedMarch 26, 1967, Carnegie Hall, New York City, July 1, 1967, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California
Genre Jazz
Length182:09
Label Pablo
Producer Norman Granz
Duke Ellington chronology
The Jaywalker
(1966-67)		The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World
(1975)		 Studio Sessions, 1957, 1965, 1966, 1967, San Francisco, Chicago, New York
(1957-67)

The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World is a 1967 live album featuring Duke Ellington and his orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, T-Bone Walker, Coleman Hawkins, Clark Terry and Zoot Sims. It was released in 1975. [1]

Contents

Billy Strayhorn's "Blood Count" was debuted at the Carnegie Hall concert featured on the album. It was Strayhorn's last composition; he died a few months after the piece was recorded. [2]

The album marked the last recorded collaboration between Fitzgerald and Ellington and his orchestra.

The album contains the last recordings of Coleman Hawkins. During the opening of "Sweet Georgia Brown" Hawkins can be heard to say "I guess I've gotta go through with it". Then someone replies "That's right".

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow noted: "In addition to having a somewhat immodest title, this three-CD set was not actually one single concert but two...the music on the reissue is often quite special...Maybe this really was 'the Greatest Jazz Concert' after all". [1]

Track listing

Disc One

  1. "Smedley" (Oscar Peterson) – 4:16
  2. "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) – 4:59
  3. "Daytrain" (Peterson) – 5:53
  4. "Now's the Time" (Charlie Parker) – 8:26
  5. "Memories of You" (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 2:22
  6. "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) – 2:45
  7. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 2:26
  8. "Wee Dot" (J.J. Johnson, Leo Parker) – 9:49
  9. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Will Hudson, Irving Mills) – 3:29
  10. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) – 4:28
  11. "C Jam Blues" (Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington) – 6:12
  12. "Woman, You Must Be Crazy" (T-Bone Walker) – 9:08
  13. "Stormy Monday" (Walker) – 6:40

Disc Two

  1. "Swamp Goo" (Ellington) – 4:54
  2. "Girdle Hurdle" (Ellington) – 2:51
  3. "The Shepherd" (Ellington) – 6:33
  4. "Rue Bleue" (Ellington) – 2:44
  5. "Salome" (Raymond Fol) – 3:34
  6. "A Chromatic Love Affair" (Ellington) – 3:58
  7. "Mount Harissa" (Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 6:39
  8. "Blood Count" (Strayhorn) – 3:50
  9. "Rockin' in Rhythm" (Harry Carney, Ellington, Mills) – 3:40
  10. "Very Tenor" (Ellington) – 7:51
  11. "Onions (Wild Onions)" (Ellington) – 2:55
  12. "Take the "A" Train" (Strayhorn) – 5:29

Disc Three

  1. "Satin Doll" (Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Strayhorn) – 5:25
  2. "Tootie for Cootie" (Ellington, Jimmy Hamilton) – 6:45
  3. "Up Jump" (Ellington) – 3:38
  4. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Ellington, Mack Gordon, Mills) – 4:39
  5. "Mood Indigo"/"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" (Bigard, Ellington, Mills)/(Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 6:08
  6. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 4:31
  7. "Don't Be That Way" (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) – 4:09
  8. "You've Changed" (Bill Carey, Carl T. Fischer) – 4:12
  9. "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)" (Cole Porter) – 4:38
  10. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:14
  11. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg, Billy Rose) – 2:31
  12. "Day Dream" (Ellington, John La Touche, Strayhorn) – 4:49
  13. "If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight)" (Henry Creamer, James P. Johnson) – 3:18
  14. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:50
  15. "Cotton Tail" (Ellington) – 5:29

Disc One

Disc Two

Disc Three

Personnel

Oscar Peterson trio

Jimmy Jones trio

Duke Ellington Orchestra

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  1. 1 2 3 "AllMusic review". AllMusic . All Media Guide . Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  2. ↑ Gary Giddins (18 May 2000). Visions of jazz: the first century. Oxford University Press. pp. 325–. ISBN   978-0-19-513241-0 . Retrieved 13 March 2012.
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