DUKE ELLINGTON — Battle Royal, The Duke Meets The Count (aka First Time! The Count Meets The Duke aka Basie Meets Ellington)

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Album · 1961

Filed under Big Band
By DUKE ELLINGTON

Tracklist

A1 Battle Royal
A2 To You
A3 Take The 'A' Train
A4 Until I Met You
B1 Wild Man
B2 Segue In C
B3 B D B
B4 Jumpin' At The Woodside

Line-up/Musicians

Duke Ellington, Count Basie – piano
Cat Anderson, Willie Cook, Eddie Mullens, Ray Nance, Sonny Cohn, Lennie Johnson, Thad Jones, Snooky Young - trumpet
Louis Blackburn, Lawrence Brown, Henry Coker, Quentin Jackson, Benny Powell - trombone
Juan Tizol - valve trombone
Jimmy Hamilton - clarinet, tenor saxophone
Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone
Russell Procope, Marshall Royal - alto saxophone, clarinet
Frank Wess - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
Paul Gonsalves, Frank Foster, Budd Johnson - tenor saxophone
Harry Carney, Charlie Fowlkes - baritone saxophone
Freddie Green - guitar
Aaron Bell, Eddie Jones - bass
Sam Woodyard, Sonny Payne - drums

About this release

CBS ‎– SBPG 62102 (UK)

Reissued in US in 1962 as "First Time! The Count Meets The Duke"(Columbia ‎– CL 1715),in UK in 1974 as "Basie Meets Ellington"(Embassy ‎– EMB 31055)

Recorded at 30th Street Studio, New York on July 6, 1961

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