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Blues In Orbit

Name: Blues In Orbit
Brand: Duke Ellington
SKU: deblues-curated
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Blues In Orbit is an album worth tracking down, if only to hear the band run through a lighter side of its sound.

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color	Black
exclusive	VMP Curated Pick
jacket style	Tip-On
jacket type	Gatefold
label	Analogue Productions
mastering engineer	Bernie Grundman
mastering studio	Bernie Grundman Mastering
pressing location	Quality Record Pressings (QRP)
release type	Reissue
remastering details	Remastered

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1lp

format

1960

original release year

33¹/₃

rpm

speed

inch

vinyl size

200

gram

weight

Description

"Blues In Orbit is an album worth tracking down, if only to hear the band run through a lighter side of its sound — indeed, it captures the essence of a late-night recording date that was as much a loose jam as a formal studio date, balancing the spontaneity of the former and the technical polish of the latter. Ellington and company were just back from a European tour when the bulk of this album was recorded, at one after-midnight session in New York on December 2, 1959, to arrangements that had to be hastily written out when the copyist failed to appear for the gig. So on the one hand, the band was kicking back with these shorter pieces; on the other, the group was also improvising freely and intensely at various points. The title track, recorded more than a year before most of the rest, is a slow blues that puts Ellington's piano into a call-and-response setting with the horns, with Ellington getting in the last word."

— Bruce Eder, AllMusic Guide

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LP 1 / Side A

Three J's Blues

Smada

Pie Eye's Blues

Sweet And Pungent

C Jam Blues

LP 1 / Side B

In A Mellow Tone

Blues In Blueprint

The Swingers Get The Blues Too

The Swingers' Jump

Blues In Orbit

Villes Ville Is The Place

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