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| 1. | Such Sweet Thunder
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| 2. | Sonnet for Caesar
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| 3. | Sonnet to Hank Cinq
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| 4. | Lady Mac
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| 5. | Sonnet in Search of a Moor
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| 6. | The Telecasters
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| 7. | Up and Down, Up and Down (I Will Lead Them Up and Down)
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| 8. | Sonnet for Sister Kate
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| 9. | The Star-Crossed Lovers
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| 10. | Madness in Great Ones
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| 11. | Half the Fun (aka Lately)
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| 12. | Circle of Fourths
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| 13. | The Star-Crossed Lovers [Stereo LP Master][*] (aka Pretty Girl)
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| 14. | Circle of Fourths [Stereo LP Master][*]
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| 15. | Suburban Beauty [Master Take][*]
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| 16. | A-Flat Minor [Preferred Take][*]
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| 17. | Café au Lait [Preferred Take][*]
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| 18. | Half the Fun [Alternate Take][*]
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| 19. | Suburban Beauty [Alternate Take][*]
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| 20. | A-Flat Minor [*][Outtake]
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| 21. | Café au Lait [*][Outtake] (aka the Star-Crossed Lovers)
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| 22. | Pretty Girl [*]
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Jazz
Duke Ellington - Orchestration, Piano
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Billy Strayhorn - Orchestration
Britt Woodman - Trombone
Cat Anderson - Trumpet
Clark Terry - Trumpet
Harry Carney - Bass, Saxophone
Jimmy Hamilton - Clarinet, Sax (Tenor), Saxophone
Jimmy Woode - Bass
John Sanders - Trombone
Johnny Hodges - Sax (Alto), Saxophone
Paul Gonsalves - Sax (Tenor), Saxophone
Quentin Jackson - Trombone
Ray Nance - Trumpet
Russell Procope - Clarinet, Sax (Alto), Saxophone
Sam Woodyard - Drums
Willie Cook - Trumpet
* Darren Salmieri - A&R
* Don Hunstein - Photography
* Howard Fritzson - Art Direction
* Irving Townsend - Liner Notes, Original Recording Producer
* John Jackson - Production Assistant
* Juliana Myrick - Package Manager
* Mark Wilder - Digital Mastering
* Phil Schaap - Liner Notes, Reissue Producer, Remastering, Research, Restoration
* Randall Martin - Design
* Steven Berkowitz - A&R
The 1999 reissue of this album marks a total reconstruction and rethinking of the original LP, and such a complete break from the original album that its story could fill a book. Such Sweet Thunder was originally announced as a stereo and mono release, but only showed up in mono thanks to the technical problems inherent in early stereo in creating a concert-like ambience in which the performance seemed continuous. The reissue presents the original album as it was intended, using alternate takes from the original sessions, plus the stereo masters of the takes used on the original album, all rounded out with a mono outtake or two. The music itself counts among Ellington's most well-realized "concept projects," all inspired by Shakespeare's work and filled with memorable melodies and ample opportunities for solos by Cat Anderson, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, and Quentin Jackson. The Ellington-Strayhorn compositions treat their soloists like actors doing scenes and, in effect, playing parts, even quoting lines after a fashion -- Clark Terry "plays" Puck in "Up and Down, Up and Down (I Will Lead Them Up and Down)," and Johnny Hodges turns in one of the most sensuous performances of his career for "Half the Fun," from -Antony and Cleopatra. These moments more than justify the cost of the CD, and the bonus tracks, many of which are different takes and others are simply material that came from the same sessions, more than double the length of the original LP. The extended notes by Phil Schaap deserve some kind of award for detail and clarity.
---Bruce Eder, All Music Guide |
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