Duke Ellington - Happy-Go-Lucky-Local

Duke Elington
& his Orchestra
Jan. 1954

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Music

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• Duke
• Ellington
• Happy-Go-Lucky-Local
• Orchestra

[tyoonz]

This is INCREDIBLE!! Thank you so much for posting it! So many of Ellington's premier sidemen were aboard (no pun intended!) for this recording.  Duke's band didn't sound like a train in this...rather they BECAME a train!

Just listen to screech trumpeter par excellence Cat Anderson playing the part of the train whistle up in the super-altissimo register!! Mind blowing!!

[caoamarelo]

And thank you!

[BlockChordsRed]

Duke "out-Minguses" Mingus on this amazing

track!

[alexjrmarino]

I mean is this really from 54, the quality is just unearthly good, thank you!

[MyFlare123]

i like the version by the enoch light orchestra!

[kurtarmbruster]

Yup, Forrest "borrowed" HGLL for "Night Train" (jeez, ya think??), made his pile, made Ellington a little mad, but did nothing to diminish the charm and greatness of the original. There was only one Duke. Swingin'!

[Easleytee]

Ellington's 1944-1949 musical enclave was the finest Jazz ensemble ever established. 

[MrJohnpiano]

To correct old post from MrBosnian78... This recording came from a time when Johnny Hodges and Cootie Williams were not in the band (1954). Alto would have been either Russell Procope or Rick Henderson. Johnny Hodges sound is unmistakable - so even if he was sitting in, you'd know for sure. The trumpet at 1.50 sounds to me like Ray Nance. Besides Cootie, Nance was Ellington's main plunger man on trumpet. The dirty tenor sound is from Jimmy Hamilton - Ashby wasn't in this band either.

[MrJohnpiano]

To correct old post from MrBosnian78... This recording came from a time when Johnny Hodges and Cootie Williams were not in the band (1954). Alto would have been either Russell Procope or Rick Henderson. Johnny Hodges sound is unmistakable - so even if he was sitting in, you'd know for sure. The trumpet at 1.50 sounds to me like Ray Nance. Besides Cootie, Nance was Ellington's main plunger man on trumpet. The dirty tenor sound is from Jimmy Hamilton - Ashby wasn't in this band either.

[MrJohnpiano]

This album "Ellington '55" is where I cut my Duke teeth when I was in HS (early '70s). Not a bad place to start. Then I discovered the 1940 version of the band. Wow!

[7734Duke]

THE ORIGIN OF "NIGHT TRAIN"....LISTEN NEAR THE END...JIMMY FOREST MAY HAVE BEEN IN HIS ORCHESTRA AND WENT ON TO HAVE A HIT WITH IT...THEN BUDDY MORROW....AND JAMES BROWN

[baritonebree]

@MrBosnian78

If it was recorded in 1954, it won't be Harold Ashby on tenor. Probably Jimmy Hamilton before switching to clarinet for his solo.

[2047alvi]

omg! i had to come here, i lost this tune on the cd i bought and then...i lost it also on mi ipod. this is the only way.