My People (Duke Ellington album)
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Released | 1963 | |||
Recorded | August 20, 21 & 27, 1963 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 42:16 | |||
Label | Flying Dutchman | |||
Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
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My People is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington written and recorded in 1963 for a stage show and originally released on Bob Thiele's short-lived Contact label before being reissued on the Flying Dutchman label and later released on CD on the Red Baron label.[1][2] The album features recordings of compositions by Ellington for a stage show presented in Chicago as part of the Century of Negro Progress Exposition in 1963.
Reception
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Released in 1963 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Stephen Thomas Erlewine says "My People is a snapshot of a specific era and is most interesting as a representation of its time, not as an individual work."[3]
Track listing
- All compositions by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
- "Ain't But the One/Will You Be There?/99%" - 5:16
- "Come Sunday/David Danced Before the Lord" - 6:09
- "My Mother, My Father (Heritage)" - 2:50
- "Montage" - 6:54
- "My People/The Blues" - 8:56
- "Workin' Blues/My Man Sends Me/Jail Blues/Lovin' Lover" - 5:57
- "King Fit the Battle of Alabam'" - 3:25
- "What Color Is Virtue?" - 2:49
- Recorded at Universal Studios, Chicago on August 20 (tracks 1a, 2, 4, 5b, 6a, 6c & 7), August 21 (tracks 1b, 1c, 3, 5a & 8) and August 27 (tracks 6b & 6d), 1963.
Personnel
- Duke Ellington – director, narration
- Ray Nance - cornet
- Bill Berry, Ziggy Harrell, Nat Woodard - trumpet
- Booty Wood, Britt Woodman - trombone
- Chuck Connors - bass trombone
- John Sanders - valve trombone
- Rudy Powell - alto saxophone
- Pete Clark, Russell Procope - alto saxophone, clarinet
- Harold Ashby - tenor saxophone, clarinet
- Bob Freedman - tenor saxophone
- Billy Strayhorn - piano
- Joe Benjamin - bass
- Louis Bellson - drums
- Juan Amalbert - conga
- Joya Sherrill, Lil Greenwood, Jimmy McPhail, Irving Bunton Singers - vocals
References
- ^ A Duke Ellington Panorama Archived 2017-09-09 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 28, 2010.
- ^ Anderson, D. Derek's Blog: Duke Ellington's My People, accessed May 14, 2019
- ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Duke Ellington – My People: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 7, 2020..