More of the Music of Duke Ellington
- A vintage Pablo pressing with solid Double Plus (A++) sound or BETTER from first note to last
- Both sides here are clean, clear, full-bodied and present with plenty of bottom end weight
- “One of Duke Ellington’s finest small group sessions from his final decade… [his] percussive style always sounded modern and he comes up with consistently strong solos on such numbers as ‘Love You Madly,’ ‘The Hawk Talks’ and especially ‘Cotton Tail,’ easily keeping up with his younger sidemen. Highly recommended.”
It’s incredibly hard to find a Pablo recording of the Duke from this era that has such big, open, clear, solid sound. Val Valentin did the engineering, and as he has so often did the course of his storied career, he knocked it out of the park.