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Black, Brown and Beige (album)

Black, Brown and Beige
Black, Brown, and Beige.jpg
Studio album by Duke Ellington
Released 1958
Recorded February 4–5 & 11-12, 1958
Genre Swing
Big band music
Length 72:48
Label Columbia
Producer Irving Townsend
Duke Ellington chronology
Live at the 1957 Stratford Festival
(1957)
Black, Brown, and Beige
(1958)
Newport Jazz Festival (1958)
(1958)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Down Beat 5/5 stars
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars [1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 3/5 stars

Black, Brown and Beige is a 1958 jazz album by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, featuring Mahalia Jackson.

The album is a recording of a revised version of Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige suite. After a disappointing critical response to its first performance in 1943, Ellington divided the three-part suite into six shorter sections, leaving in "Come Sunday" and "Work Song", and it is this version that is recorded here.

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