The Ellington Era is an excellent three-record compilation of Duke Ellington's work on Columbia (and Okeh) that Columbia never deemed fit to release on CD, instead scattering its contents on various other compilations, some more obscure than others... lots of gold here, including the original 1937 versions of "Diminuendo in Blue" and "Crescendo in Blue," which are great even without the Paul Gonsalves tenor sax interlude added for Newport... Wrapping up 1972 for "Dark Star," on to 1973... the two greatest years for that mammoth space ditty... I love the Sun Ra rehearsal recordings on releases like The Intergalactic Thing... it still amazes me how many of his compositions were diligently rehearsed that we rarely got to hear...
Playlist 2026-02-16:
*[Ahmed]: Wood Blues
*Art Ensemble of Chicago: 1980-10-05 Atlanta (CDR) (disc 1)
*Beach Boys: We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years (discs 1, 2, 3)
*Beatles: Anthology 4 (disc 1)
*Booker T. & the MGs: Time Is Tight (disc 2)
*Anthony Braxton: Trillium X (disc 1)
*Circle: 1971-03-04 Hamburg (CDR) "There Is No Greater Love"
*Gerald Cleaver/Brandon Lopez/Hprizm: In the Wilderness
*Nat King Cole: Just One of Those Things (and More)
*Kris Davis/Lutosławski Quartet: The Solastalgia Suite
*Deepstaria Enigmatica: The Eternal Now is the Heart of a New Tomorrow
*Walt Dickerson Quartet: Impressions of A Patch of Blue
*Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra: The Ellington Era, Vol. 1: 1927-1940 (sides 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
*Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: A Drum Is a Woman (side 1)
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 7: Studio Sessions
*Duke Ellington: The Private Collection, Vol. 8: Studio Sessions
*Grateful Dead: Listen to the River: St. Louis '71 '72 '73 (disc 10)
*Grateful Dead: 1972-11-26 San Antonio (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1972-12-11 Winterland, SF (CDR) "Dark Star"
*Grateful Dead: 1972-12-15 Long Beach, CA (CDR) "Jam > Dark Star"
*Hatfield and the North: The Rotters' Club (50th Anniversary Ed.) (side 2)
*Heldon: "Allez-Téia"
*Joe Henderson: Mode for Joe
*Bobby Hutcherson: Oblique
*Joëlle Léandre/Jérôme Bourdellon: Evidence
*Charles Mingus: Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (disc 2)
*New Ting: 2026-01-19 "According" (wav)
*Rova Saxophone Quartet/Kyle Bruckmann/Henry Kaiser: Steve Lacy's Saxophone Special Revisited
*Wayne Shorter: The All Seeing Eye
*Sinclair and the South: The Rotters' Club (50th Anniversary)
*Sparks: Live at the Record Plant 1974 (side 1)
*Sun Ra and His Astro Ihnfinity Arkestra: The Intergalactic Thing (side 1)
*Sun Ra: The Antique Blacks "The Antique Blacks Suite"
*Sun Ra: The Soul Vibrations of Man (sides 1, 2)
*Sun Ra: Strange Celestial Road (side 1)
*Sun Ra and His Omniverse Jet-Set Arkestra: Beyond the Purple Star Zone
*Craig Taborn: Dream Archive
*Cecil Taylor Feel Trio: Two Ts for a Lovely T (disc 3)
*Ben Webster: King of the Tenors
*Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans (Super Deluxe Ed.) (discs 3, 4, 5, 6)
*John Zorn/Brian Marsella Trio: Calculus "The Ghost of Departed Quantities"
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