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70th Birthday Concert is a live album by American pianist composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded in England recorded at the Free Trade Hall in Manch.

70th Birthday Concert is a live album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded in England recorded at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England and originally released on the Solid State label in 1970. The album was later reissued on CD on the Blue Note label in 1995. All tracks written by Duke Ellington, except where noted.

Ellington In Concert ‎(Reel, 4tr Mono, 5" Reel, Album, Club). This is the companion volume to Duke Ellington - Ellington In Concert, Volume 2 (World Record Club T 195) - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra live at Cornell University, 10 december 1948. Reply Notify me Helpful. Marketplace 0 22 For Sale from €. 9.

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70th Birthday Concert. The live performance gives listeners a good idea as to just how Duke's ensemble sounded in concert, and it serves as both a retrospective and a display of the strengths of Ellington's mighty band

When Duke Ellington returned from his 1965 tour he wrote the Virgin Islands Suite, consisting of the four compositions opening the set. Studio recordings of other music the orchestra performed on location make up the remainder. The album cover presents a lush, tropical panorama through textured nuances of the color green and vivid floral display. The resplendent composer at its center, providing a glimpse of what is to come  . The concept for this album is that this is a set of tunes that Ellington would have played, had he performed a Concert in the Virgin Islands. But it was recorded in the studio, not in the Virgin Islands. The fidelity is better than most digitally mastered CDs of today, because it is free of the artifical gimmicry that's used to over-brighten modern recordings.

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions. In the words of Bob Blumenthal of the Boston Globe "In the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American or otherwise, than Edward Kennedy Ellington.