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Duke Ellington - New Orleans Suite

Product No: CATL 1580
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Category: Blu-ray Audio
Label: Atlantic

great piece of history, nice remaster

4 Stars
Posted Sunday, September 7, 2025 by Thomas Spitzer Historic album in a number of ways. I've had it on vinyl for about fifty years, bought it used for $7 long ago, and it was in fair shape. So it was nice to get a version that you can hear. The performances are mixed. As it says on the cover, Johnny Hodges died unexpectedly during the recording process, and he was one of the stars of this iteration of the band. There's a somber tone throughout, though the theme is a celebration of New Orleans in the history of great American music. Russell Procope presents himself admirably on a number of the tracks, Norris Turney did some nice flute work, and Harry Carney got a feature or two on baritone. About the recording, you can play this in four channel and two channel. My recommendation is to listen to the two channel mix. The four channel sends a lot of sound to the surround speakers, which does not sound natural to me. My surround processor created a better ambient mix with the two channel input as source.