Jazz
Recorded in New York, New York on July 29 and September 6, 1957
Clark Terry (trumpet); Marian Bruce (vocals); Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); Paul Gonsalves (tenor saxophone); Britt Woodman, Quentin Jackson (trombone); Billy Strayhorn (piano); Tyree Glenn (vibraphone); Jimmy Woode (bass); Sam Woodyard (drums)
Originally released on Riverside (1108). Includes original liner notes by Orrin Keepnews.
Clark Terry's series of late-Fifties Riverside albums covered a very wide range (on one he shared honors with a tuba player; another featured Thelonious Monk), but Duke with a Difference may have been the most unusual. On this occasion he gathered together a number of major artists--notably including Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves, and Billy Strayhorn--who had been his colleagues for years in the Ellington orchestra, and enabled them to fulfill a mutual fantasy by performing a repertoire of some of the Duke's distinguished standards (among them "Mood Indigo," "Take the 'A' Train," and "C Jam Blues") in a deliberately non-Ellington vein. |
