Plays Duke Ellington

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Plays Duke Ellington
Album cover
Album by World Saxophone Quartet
Released 1986
Recorded April 1986
Genre Jazz
Length 69:16
Label Elektra/Nonesuch
Producer Robert Hurwitz
Professional reviews
World Saxophone Quartet chronology
Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music
(1986)
Plays Duke Ellington
(1986)
Dances and Ballads
(1987)

Plays Duke Ellington was the seventh album by the jazz group the World Saxophone Quartet, released in 1986.

The album marked a departure for the quartet, in that their first six albums had been of music written by the four musicians themselves; this was their first venture into covers.

[edit] Track listing

  • "Take the 'A' Train" (Strayhorn) –1:33
  • "Lush Life" (Strayhorn) –6:30
  • "Prelude to a Kiss" (Ellington–Gordon–Mills} –2:43
  • "Sophisticated Lady" (Ellington–Mills–Parish) –4:41
  • "I Let a Song Go out of My Heart" (Ellington–Mills–Nemo) –6:02
  • "Come Sunday" (Ellington) 7:36
  • "In a Sentimental Mood" (Ellington–Kurtz–Mills) –5:16
  • "Take the 'A' Train" (Strayhorn) –34:55

[edit] Personnel