At Newport Édition Limitée Vinyle Rouge

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duke ellington
ELLINGTON AT NEWPORT
1956, COLUMBIA
When "The Duke" gave this concert, his star was rather declining in the face of the young wolves of new jazz like Miles Davis and the explosion of rock & roll. The album Ellington At Newport would change the game and George Wein, who founded the Newport Jazz Festival, declared upon its release that it was "the greatest performance of his career, everything jazz has been and should be." Opened with an original version of the American anthem, this concert took a decisive turn when the band launched into an epic version of the old standard from the 1930s, "Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue" with a spectacular solo by Paul Gonsalves on tenor saxophone. The track would be re-recorded in the studio for better sound quality, but the energy remained the same. And this exceptional live performance marked the renaissance of the Duke, who found himself on the cover of Time a month later. "Duke is King."