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- From: simpson@cactus.org (Randall L. Simpson)
- Subject: Re: Ellington suggestions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.044329.7395@cactus.org>
- Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx
- References: <1hasrvINNr7b@manuel.anu.edu.au> <1992Dec28.174652.7731@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:43:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.174652.7731@news.columbia.edu> jte@beefheart.cc.columbia.edu writes:
- >No one's collection should be lacking the following:
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- >Money Jungle -- Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach
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- >This would probably be my single desert island disk, if I had to pick one.
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- >This recording really gives you a chance to hear Duke play some heavy shit
- >on the piano. And you can guess how Mingus and Roach are. The
- >combination works beautifully. All Ellington compositions.
- >
- I agree wholeheartedly. I had no idea Duke could play so much piano.
- My impetus to purchase the album was hearing Mingus and Roach in a trio.
- Ellington's piano blew me away. All three play their asses off.
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