Duke Ellington Ellington At Newport

Ellington at Newport kicked off Ellington's comeback in the mainstream. It is the recording of a spectacular performance at the Newport Jazz Festival on Rhode Island in 1956 that exceeded all audience expectations and ensured Ellington's financial success for life. The concert began with a strongly blues-influenced suite written especially for the festival, in which Ellington's agile piano riffs, Jimmy Hamilton's peppery clarinet interludes and Clark Terry's trumpet runs set the tone. The highlight of the evening, however, was a union of the titles Diminuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Bluewith the tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves as soloist. Already with the first notes there was movement in the audience, with the seventh chorus people began to dance. And then the auditorium was transformed into such a cauldron for a total of 27 choruses that the organizers were on the verge of breaking off the concert.
Re-mastered and pressed at RTI, Mobile Fidelity is now releasing this jazz classic in the Silver Series with unprecedented transparency and authenticity. Musically and sonically a must!
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Silver Label
Since the beginning of 2011, MFSL has been releasing a new series of LPs under the product name Silver Label. These are remastered and cut at Mobile Fidelity on the mastering chain constructed by Tim de Paravicini and pressed onto 140g vinyl at RTI in Los Angeles. With a lined rice paper inner sleeve, a protective intermediate sleeve and a consecutive serial number on the outer cover, the packaging meets the same high standards as the well-known Original Master Recording series. Mobile Fidelity is planning a series of experimental publications and in this series is also willing to make do with a copy of the master tape if the original tape cannot be made available. All LPs appear as limited editions and are likely to develop into coveted collector's items.

Selections:

1. Festival Junction
2. Blues to Be There
3. Newport Up
4. Jeep's Blues
5. Diminuendo and Crescendo In Blue