Ellington at Newport

Great album, when I think of listening to jazz this is what I want to hear.

Inoffensive big band that never really struck a chord with me throughout our time together. Maybe I find the faux-live style disingenuous? I don't know, Duke Ellington is certainly someone to be respected, but this was just stereotypical "50s music" to my ears.

It’s a 5. I don’t need to use any more than 2 paragraphs to explain why.

It’s a live jazz album, what did you think it was gonna get? The only way it could’ve been any lower than a 4 would be if someone had just been yelling into a microphone the whole time. I’m not super deep into music theory to tell someone why these are good, or to explain the deep complexities in the performance. I have an ear, and that’s about all I need, I think. My ear is telling me this was really fucking good.

This is my first time listening to anything by Duke Ellington. I now want to listen to even more of Duke Ellington – I know the name, I know his place in history, and I know his deep, deep importance to this specific era of big band jazz. There’s a reason Stevie Wonder made Sir Duke. He lived up to the hype and more – this is a spectacular 44 minutes; there's neither a wasted note nor a moment where the energy dies down. Mix that with a red-hot crowd hanging onto every single flourish & some stellar compositions, and you end up at an easy 5.

Had muddy waters at Newport yesterday, so good to get a direct
Comparison to another live album,
This is good, but has the pitfalls of what I don’t like about love albums. The CD version is also far too long. But more than worthy of this list

Excellent....

Great jazz album. This was 1956. The performance was amazing and live recording and production was perfect.

Geluisterd naar de korte oorspronkelijke versie (door zelf een playlist te maken).

Het is fijn werken met deze muziek op de achtergrond. Er heel wat muziek in. Maar hoe houdt het tegenover andere jazz namen uit die tijd? Daar helpt het algoritme. Na het album volgen andere jaren 50 jazz nummers. En dat merk ik pas na een aantal nummers als ik ineens een extra fijn nummer hoor. Dan moet ik concluderen dat ik het genre fijn vind, maar dit album niet meer waardeer dan gemiddeld.

Nyt on perusteita livelevyn sisällyttämiselle. Yleisö villiintyy, käsittämätön soolo ja ylipäätään upeeta keikkajazzia! 5/5 menee vakiokiertoon (toki ehkä ilman välihuutoja)

This album was a really cool experience, and it's history really earned it the rating. I love the energy that these guys inspire from the crowd, especially during that insane sax solo on Diminuendo in Blue (the best song on the album). I really felt like I was transported back to this Jazz club. Very impressive album that I'll check back on for years to come. 5/5.

One of those, what you hear isn't what you heard live albums... The extended version has the live performance but the original was fabricated and mixed and mashed from live and studio overdubs.

I usually love live albums but this one is a little overly live with crowd noise, I can see why they fudged it up with studio replacement

Equally fascinating, entertaining, stimulating, and important.

4/5

Looks like a long, but iconic album. I'm hearing trumpets do something I've never heard before (black and tan fantasy). The music is outstanding but the live-ness and talking in this adds no value unfortunately. After Cash's prison album nothing holds a candle to that kind of live album. 4.5 rounded up to 5* because the spoken interludes can be so cringy at times. Like, people started to riot? IDK, maybe I don't go to cool enough concerts. The musical artistry is impeccable.

Generator is bringing out the big (band) guns, with Sinatra, Fitzgerald & Ellington all in about a week!

Really happy for Paul and his two-hour sax solo in "Diminuendo", what a warm audience response; speaking of that track, the first listen was grating, the 2nd a few hours later was sublime.

It was weird listening to this when I was craving more straightforward rock (I've been putting on QOTSA & Black Sabbath this scorching weekend, which Ellington isn't QUITE the same frequency as). However, the performances are amazing, it's a bop, I'll give credit where it's due.

HL: "Festival Junction", "Newport Up", "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue"

July 13, 2024

Not my music of choice, but I had a hard day of concentration so it was some nice background music.

Classic. Delightful.

Classic, beautiful, masterful.

The music wasn't bad and some was actually really impressive aside from the occasional trumpet squeaks and squeals. However, I could've done without every "Duke does something" track; I skipped every one of those. Way too long due to the banter. Could've been a 4, but 3/5 instead.

Just an average jazz album. Decent for background music. 2.5/5

I am not a huge listener of jazz and I do not like live albums.

I absolutely hate how the hats on this album overpower every other instrument when they play, it's all I can focus on as they are so loud over everything else and I am not a fan of the talking and cheering between songs.

The second part of the album on Spotify was better as the hats weren't as loud.

I did not listen to tracks 9-18 on disc 2 as they are not part of the original show according to Wikipedia.

I will give this album a 2/5 because the music would be ok if the hats weren't as loud and if there wasn't talking after every song.

This is not my favorite style of jazz but it is certainly executed exceptionally.