Album · 1987
Tracklist
The Degas Suite 27:23
1 Introduction - Opening Titles
2 Race
3 Racing
4 Piano Pastel
5 Improvisation - Marcia Regina
6 Piano Pastel
7 Daily Double
8 Drawings
9 Promenade
10 Sonnet
11 Race
The River 43:46
12 The Spring
13 The Run
14 The Meander
15 The Giggling Rapids
16 The Lake
17 The Falls
18 The Whirlpool
19 The River
20 The Neo-Hip-Hot Kiddies Community
21 The Village Of The Virgins
22 Her Majesty The Sea
23 The Spring
Line-up/Musicians
Duke Ellington – piano
Cat Anderson (tracks 1.1, 1.7 & track 2), Dave Burns (track 2) Willie Cook, Mercer Ellington (track 2.6 & 2.11), Money Johnson (tracks 1.1, 1.7 & track 2), Frank Stone (track 2.6 & 2.11), Cootie Williams (tracks 1.1, 1.7 & track 2) - trumpet
Lawrence Brown(tracks 1.1, 1.7 & track 2), Buster Cooper (tracks 1.1, 1.7 & track 2), Cliff Heathers (track 2.6 & 2.11) - trombone
Chuck Connors - bass trombone
Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone (track 1)
Russell Procope - alto saxophone, clarinet
Norris Turney - alto saxophone, flute (tracks 1.7, 2.6 & 2.11)
Harold Ashby (track 1, 2.6 & 2.11), Paul Gonsalves - tenor saxophone
Harry Carney - baritone saxophone
Jeff Castleman - bass
Rufus Jones, Joe Benjamin (tracks 2.6 & 2.11) - drums
Elayne Jones - tympani (track 1.7)
Walter Rosenberg - glockenspiel (track 1.7)
Dave Fitz - xylophone, marimba (track 1.7)
About this release
LMR
Recorded at National Recording Studio, New York on November 6, 1968 (tracks 1.1-1.11), November 23, 1968 (track 1.1), December 3, 1968 (track 1.7), at Universal Studios, Chicago on May 25, 1970 (tracks 2.1-2.5 & 2.12), at National Recording Studio, New York on June 3, 1970 (tracks 2.7-2.10), June 8, 1970 (track 2.6) and June 15, 1970 (track 2.11)
Thanks to snobb for the addition
