Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - Black, Brown and Beige VINYL LP CL1162
Duke Ellington originally wrote the 50-minute Black, Brown and Beige in 1943 for a Carnegie Hall concert, where critics dismissed it as overreaching for a jazz composer. Over the next 15 years, he periodically resurrected it for performances of excerpts or, as in the case of his 1958 Columbia album, transmuting it into what was essentially a new work. Columbia's Black, Brown and Beige was one of the most extraordinary products of Ellington's second stay with the label, growing out of his 1956 Newport triumph, and it was received somewhat more readily than the original 1943 "Black, Brown and Beige."
Tracklist
A1 Part I (Work Song - Full Orchestra)
A2 Part II (Come Sunday Instrumentally)
A3 Part III (Work Song And Come Sunday)
B1 Part IV (Come Sunday)
B2 Part V (Come Sunday Interlude)
B3 Part VI (23rd Psalm)
