Ellington on the cheap

Posted by: woodface on 25 November 2003

I recently bought two live sets of Ellington recorded in Paris. Each one is made up of 2CD's with about 2 hours of music in total, the first dates from mid 50's the 2nd from the 60's. Each one was just 5.99 from HMV and there are a whole series of them for other artists. If anyone has yet to discover Ellington this is the place to start, wonderful live recording, wonderful music with solos from Hodges, Anderson, Gonsalves, Carney et al.

Posted on: 25 November 2003 by Wolf

My dad danced to all those bands in Connecticut in that era before the war and he thinks Ellington is the best. maybe I shuld get him that CD.

What is the website for HMV?

Thanks
Glenn

Life is analogue

Posted on: 26 November 2003 by woodface

I thik the adress is hmv.co.uk.

Posted on: 26 November 2003 by woodface

The label is 'Laserlight' Digital, there are two sets at HMV, the early 50's date is the stronger. There is loads of Ellington available dirt cheap but often the quality is poor; these are excellent.