tracks

Jungle Triangle #1
Come Sunday
Will You Be There / 99% Won't Do
Ain't But No One
David Danced
Heritage (My Mother, My Father And Love) #1
After Bird Jungle
Montage
My People (Soap Box)
The Blues Ain't
Blues At Sundown
Walking And Singing The Blues
Working Blues
My Man Sends Me
Jail Blues
I Love My Lovin' Lover
Jungle Triangle #2
King Fit The Battle Of Alabam
King
Purple People
What Color Is Virtue
Purple People - Music
Piano Blues Ouverture
Strange Feeling
Heritage (My Mother, My Father And Love) #2

notes

Recorded in Chicago, August 20, 21 & 27, 1963.

"Duke Ellington's arguably most important show - My People - staged and recorded in Chicago in 1963, is presented on this CD for the first time in its complete form."

Comes in Digipak.

Made in EU.

credits

Alto Saxophone, Clarinet – Rudy Powell, Russell Procope
Baritone Saxophone – Bob Freedman
Bass – Joe Benjamin
Choir – The Irving Bunton Singers
Congas – Emmanuel Abdul Rahim,
Drums – Louis Bellson
Narrator – Richelle Le Noir Guilmenet
Narrator, Directed By – Duke Ellington
Piano, Celesta – Billy Strayhorn
Piano, Conductor – Jimmy Jones (3)
Tap Dance – Bunny Briggs
Tenor Saxophone – Harold Ashby, Pete Clarke (4)
Trombone – Booty Wood, Britt Woodman, John Sanders
Trumpet – Bill Berry, Nat Woodard, Ray Nance, Ziggy Harrell
Vocals – Jimmy Grissom, Jimmy McPhail, Joya Sherrill, Lil Greenwood

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Storyville Records
Copyright (c) – Storyville Records
Made By – Dicentia

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