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Studio album by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong | |||||
Released | 1961 | ||||
Recorded | April 3–4, 1961. RCA Victor's Studio One, New York City. |
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Genre | Jazz | ||||
Length | 1:07:23 | ||||
Label | Roulette (Blue Note) | ||||
Producer | Bob Thiele | ||||
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Together for the First Time | |||||
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The Great Reunion | |||||
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The Great Summit: The Master Takes is a 2001 Blue Note album by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. It's a reissue of the two Roulette albums Together For The First Time (track 1–10) and The Great Reunion (track 11–17) from 1961. (These two albums have later resurfaced as a Roulette double-LP entitled The Duke Ellington/Louis Armstrong Years and in 1990 as a remastered CD called Together for the First Time/The Great Reunion.)
The contents of this album is an all-Ellington program performed by himself and Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars. These 17 selections are the entire result of the only studio meeting by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.
All songs composed by Duke Ellington solely (except where otherwise stated).
Already on August 1, 2000 Blue Note had released the compilation The Great Summit: The Complete Sessions, which contained the reissue above plus a second CD with alternate takes (rehearsals, false starts etc.). The alternate takes were digitally remastered in 2000.
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