The Great Paris Concert

Live album by Duke Ellington

Released

1973

Recorded

Feb 1, 1963 – Feb 23, 1963

Genre

Jazz

Length

118:34

Label

Atlantic

Producer

(Reissue) Ilhan Mimaroglu, Bob Porter

Duke Ellington chronology

Afro-Bossa (1963)

The Great Paris Concert
(1963)

The Symphonic Ellington (1963)

Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[1]

The Great Paris Concert is a 1973 live double album by jazz legend Duke Ellington preserving pieces of a series of performances given in Paris during February 1963. Several of the tracks were previously edited and included in Duke Ellington's Greatest Hits. Those edited tracks were included on the 1989 CD re-release of The Great Paris Concert.

Track listing

All tracks written by Duke Ellington unless otherwise noted. All tracks live.

"Kinda Dukish" – 1:52
"Rockin' in Rhythm" (Harry Carney, Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:47
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:58
"The Star-Crossed Lovers" (Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 4:18
"All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 2:35
"Theme from the Asphalt Jungle" – 4:08
"Concerto for Cootie" – 2:31
"Tutti for Cootie" (Ellington, Jimmy Hamilton) – 2:31
"Suite Thursday: Misfit Blues" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 3:39
"Suite Thursday: Schwiphti" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 2:50
"Suite Thursday: Zweet Zurzday" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 3:55
"Suite Thursday: Lay-By" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 6:25
"Perdido" (Ervin Drake, H.J. Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 5:22
"The Eighth Veil" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 2:33
"Rose of the Rio Grande" (Ross Gorman, Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren) – 2:41
"Cop Out" – 6:58
"Bula" – 4:42
"Jam With Sam" – 3:51
"Happy Go Lucky Local" – 3:25
"Tone Parallel to Harlem" – 14:05

Additional tracks on 1989 re-release

"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 2:33
"Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (Ellington, Russell) – 4:33
"Black and Tan Fantasy" (Ellington, Bubber Miley) – 2:43
"Creole Love Call" – 2:08
"The Mooche" – 5:38
"Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 2:53
"Pyramid" (Ellington, Irving Gordon, Mills, Tizol) – 3:25
"The Blues" – 3:36
"Echoes of Harlem" – 3:32
"Satin Doll" – (Ellington, Mercer, Strayhorn) – 2:27

Personnel

Cat Anderson – trumpet
Lawrence Brown – trombone
Roy Burrowes – trumpet
Harry Carney – clarinet, saxophone
Chuck Connors – trombone
Buster Cooper – trombone
Duke Ellington – piano
Paul Gonsalves – saxophone
Milt Grayson – vocals
Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, saxophone
Johnny Hodges – saxophone
Ray Nance – violin, cornet
Russell Procope – clarinet, saxophone
Ernie Shephard – bass
Cootie Williams – trumpet
Sam Woodyard – drums
Stanley Dance – liner notes
Ilhan Mimaroglu – reissue producer, production coordination, editing, sequencing, original collating
Giuseppe Pino – liner notes, photography
Popsie – liner notes
Bob Porter – reissue producer
Fred Seligo – liner notes

References

↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 69. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

Duke Ellington

Studio albums

Live albums

Collaborations

with Alice Babs	Serenade to Sweden

with Count Basie	First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

with Teresa Brewer	It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

with Rosemary Clooney	Blue Rose

with John Coltrane	Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

with Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook Ella at Duke's Place The Stockholm Concert, 1966 Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur

with Coleman Hawkins	Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins

with Frank Sinatra	Francis A. & Edward K.

Compositions

"All Too Soon"
"Azure"
"Black and Tan Fantasy"
"Black, Brown and Beige"
"C Jam Blues"
"Cotton Tail"
"Day Dream"
"Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue"
"Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me"
"Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
"Drop Me Off in Harlem"
"Echoes of Harlem"
"Everything But You"
"I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues"
"I Didn't Know About You"
"I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)"
"I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart"
"I'm Beginning to See the Light"
"I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So"
"In a Mellow Tone"
"In a Sentimental Mood"
"It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
"Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'"
"Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)"
"Mood Indigo"
" Prelude to a Kiss"
"Rocks in My Bed"
"(In My) Solitude"
"Sophisticated Lady"

Billy Strayhorn compositions associated with Ellington	"Take the "A" Train" "Lush Life" "Chelsea Bridge" "Something to Live For" "Satin Doll" "Blood Count"

Juan Tizol compositions associated with Ellington	"Caravan" "Perdido"

Orchestra
members

Filmography

Discography

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