My People (Duke Ellington album)
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| My People | ||||
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| Released | 1965 | |||
| Recorded | August 20, 21 & 27, 1963 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 42:16 | |||
| Label | Contact | |||
| Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
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My People is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington written and recorded in 1963 for a stage show and originally released on Bob Thiele's short-lived Contact label before being reissued on the Flying Dutchman label and later released on CD on the Red Baron label.[1][2] The album features recordings of compositions by Ellington for a stage show presented in Chicago as part of the Century of Negro Progress Exposition in 1963.
Reception[edit]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Record Mirror | [4] |
Released in 1965 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The reviewer for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote: "My People is a snapshot of a specific era and is most interesting as a representation of its time, not as an individual work."[3][better source needed]
Track listing[edit]
- All compositions by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
- "Ain't But the One/Will You Be There?/99%" – 5:16
- "Come Sunday/David Danced Before the Lord" – 6:09
- "My Mother, My Father (Heritage)" – 2:50
- "Montage" – 6:54
- "My People/The Blues" – 8:56
- "Workin' Blues/My Man Sends Me/Jail Blues/Lovin' Lover" – 5:57
- "King Fit the Battle of Alabam'" – 3:25
- "What Color Is Virtue?" – 2:49
- Recorded at Universal Studios, Chicago on August 20 (tracks 1a, 2, 4, 5b, 6a, 6c & 7), August 21 (tracks 1b, 1c, 3, 5a & 8) and August 27 (tracks 6b & 6d), 1963.
Personnel[edit]
- Duke Ellington – director, narration
- Ray Nance – cornet
- Bill Berry, Ziggy Harrell, Nat Woodard – trumpet
- Booty Wood, Britt Woodman – trombone
- Chuck Connors – bass trombone
- John Sanders – valve trombone
- Rudy Powell – alto saxophone
- Pete Clark, Russell Procope – alto saxophone, clarinet
- Harold Ashby – tenor saxophone, clarinet
- Bob Freedman – tenor saxophone
- Billy Strayhorn – piano
- Joe Benjamin – bass
- Louis Bellson – drums
- Juan Amalbert – conga
- Joya Sherrill, Lil Greenwood, Jimmy McPhail, Irving Bunton Singers – vocals
- Bunny Briggs - tap dance
References[edit]
- ^ A Duke Ellington Panorama Archived 2017-09-09 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 28, 2010.
- ^ Anderson, D. Derek's Blog: Duke Ellington's My People, accessed May 14, 2019
- ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Duke Ellington – My People: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 7, 2020..
- ^ "Duke Ellington: My People" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 161. 11 April 1964. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.