The Great Summit
1961 studio album by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Great Summit: The Master Takes is a 2001 Blue Note album by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. It is a reissue of the two Roulette albums Together For The First Time (track 1–10) and The Great Reunion (track 11–17) from 1961. (These two albums have later resurfaced as a Roulette double-LP entitled The Duke Ellington/Louis Armstrong Years and in 1990 as a remastered CD called Together for the First Time/The Great Reunion.)
The Great Summit: The Master Takes | ||||
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Released | 1961 | |||
Recorded | April 3–4, 1961. RCA Victor's Studio One, New York City. | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 1:07:23 | |||
Label | Roulette (Blue Note) | |||
Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
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Together for the First Time | ||||
The Great Reunion | ||||
The contents of this album is an all-Ellington program performed by himself and Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars. These 17 selections are the entire result of the only studio meeting by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. They both lead a small band - Louis Armstrong's All Stars - and play classic compositions by Ellington such as "Mood Indigo" and "Black And Tan Fantasy".