Duke Ellington The Ellington Suites (Pablo Series)

180g Vinyl LP!
Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab from the Original Analog Master Tape!
Pressed at QRP!
The three Ellington Suites in this release were recorded at different times along Ellington's legendary and prolific arc: "The Queen's Suite" in February and April 1959 (written for and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II, but not widely released until 1970); "The Goutelas Suite" in April 1971; and "The Uwis Suite" in October 1972. The album was released on Pablo in 1976 and won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band in the same year.
"Ellington would record his orchestra at his own expense, and then stockpile the recordings," says Nick Phillips, Vice President, Catalog and Jazz A&R at Concord and producer of the Original Jazz Classics Remasters series. "These were recordings that were later sold to Norman Granz, who had the good sense in the '70s to collect these then-unreleased suites on one album."
In the course of the "Pablo Reissue Series", Analogue Productions pays tribute to this big band jewel with a sonically excellent reissue, lovingly mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab. The LP, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, at industry leader Quality Record Pressings (QRP) and cut at 33 rpm, comes in a tip-on sleeve from Stoughton Printing.

Features:

• 180g Vinyl
• Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab from the Original Analog Master Tape
• Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
• Stoughton Printing Gatefold Jacket

Selections:

Side A
The Queen's Suite
1. Sunset And The Mocking Bird
2. Lightning Bugs And Frogs
3. Le Sucrier Velour
4. Northern Lights
5. The Single Petal Of A Rose
6. Apes And Peacocks
Side B
The Goutelas Suite
1. Fanfare
2. Goutelas
3. Get-With-Itness
4. Something
5. Having At It
6. Fanfare
The Uwis Suite
7. Uwis
8. Klop
9. Loco Madi