Double Bass Ray Brown In Royal Company

[Sam Sherry]

1.6 hours of Duke Ellington, Joe Pass, Ray Brown & Louis Bellson in the studio.

 

[Brent Nussey]

Wow! You know sometimes an album comes out with a special combination, and you wish you could have been a fly on the wall? You literally can here! The album is Duke's Big 4, on Pablo. Also, at 1:30:30, one of the tracks from This One's for Blanton! It is the exact audio. I always thought that these were 2 totally different sessions, but maybe not. Mr Brown said that Duke was pretty sick at the This One's for Blanton session, so maybe they recorded part of it at the end of the Big 4 session? Anyway, I'm going to go back and watch again! Thank you, Sam.

 

[DaveAceofBass]

What a gem!

 

[krfoss]

That tone. It's simultaneously rich and tight. Wow.