''The Jaywalker'' is a studio album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington featuring tracks recorded in 1966 and 1967 and released on the Storyville label in 2004.A Duke Ellington Panorama
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Reception

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review by Ken Dryden awarded the album 3½ stars and states "some tracks are obviously not as polished as his later (and better-known) studio or live recordings. But it is always fascinating to hear works in progress by Ellington... Serious collectors of Ellington will enjoy this compilation".Dryden, K.

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Track listing

:''All compositions by Duke Ellington, except as indicated'' # "The Shepherd" - 6:29 # "Up Jump" - 3:06 # "Rue Bleu" - 3:02 # "Chromatic Love Affair" - 4:02 # "Salomé" (

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) - 4:14 # "

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" ( Billy Strayhorn) - 3:50 # "El Viti" - 3:27 # "Kixx" - 3:55 # "Eggo" -5:37 # "I'm Hip Too" - 0:36 # "Amta" - 2:51 # "Warr" - 4:23 # "Little Purple Flower" - 4:32 # "Traffic Cop" - 3:50 # "Untitled Blues" - 4:52 # "Polícia" - 1:42 # "The B.O. of Traffic" - 0:43 # "Mac" - 2:37 # "Traffic Extension" - 5:37 # "Star" - 0:54 # "Cross Climax" - 0:27 # "B.O. Man" - 3:11 # "Tin Soldier" - 2:24 :*Recorded at RCA Studio in New York on March 29, 1966 (track 7), August 18, 1966 (track 23), March 23, 1967 (tracks 14-22), April 24, 1967 (tracks 8-13) and June 23, 1967 (tracks 1-6).

Personnel

* Duke Ellington –

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

* Cat Anderson,

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(tracks 1-7 & 23), Herb Jones, Cootie Williams -

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* Lawrence Brown,

Buster Cooper George "Buster" Cooper (April 4, 1929 – May 13, 2016) was an American jazz trombonist. Career A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, Cooper played in a territory band with Nat Towles in Texas in the late 1940s and with Lionel Hamp ...

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

*Chuck Connors - bass trombone *

Russell Procope Russell Keith Procope (August 11, 1908 – January 21, 1981) was an American clarinetist and alto saxophonist who was a member of the Duke Ellington orchestra. Before Ellington Procope was born in New York City, United States, and grew up in ...

- alto saxophone, clarinet *

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- alto saxophone *

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, clarinet * Paul Gonsalves - tenor saxophone * Harry Carney - baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet * Jimmy Jones - piano (tracks 1-6) * John Lamb - bass * Chris Columbus (tracks 1-6), Bobby Durham (tracks 8-22),

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(tracks 7 & 23) - drums * Emanuel Abdul-Rahim - congas (tracks 8-22)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jaywalker, The Storyville Records albums Duke Ellington albums 2004 albums