by Duke Ellington, Mahalia Jackson · Essential Jazz Classics · CD · EAN 8436028694303
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«Black, Brown and Beige» is the album by Duke Ellington with Mahalia Jackson, released in 2009 by Essential Jazz Classics, on CD.
The central work is the suite «Black, Brown and Beige», recorded in 1958 with the Duke Ellington orchestra and the voice of Mahalia Jackson, featuring passages such as «Come Sunday» and «23rd Psalm». This edition adds the suite «Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald» and two vocal arrangements from Masterpieces by Ellington, including «Mood Indigo» and «Sophisticated Lady».
The original album was recorded in Los Angeles in February 1958; this reissue from Essential Jazz Classics adds recordings from 1957 and 1950 and has a total duration of 78:42.
For fans of orchestral jazz and the swing of the big bands of the 1950s.
