Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport (1956) - [Greatest Jazz Festival]

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Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport (1956)

00:00 - Festival Junction (1956)
08:05 - Blues to Be There (1956)
15:15 - Newport Up (1956)
20:52 - Jeep's Blues (1956)
24:24 - Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue (1956)

Ellington at Newport is a 1956 live jazz album by Duke Ellington and his band of their 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, a concert which revitalized Ellington's flagging career. Jazz promoter George Wein describes the 1956 concert as "the greatest performance of Ellington's career... It stood for everything that jazz had been and could be.". It is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, which ranks it "one of the most famous... in jazz history". The original release was partly recreated in the studio after the Ellington Orchestra's festival appearance.
Many big bands folded by the mid-1950s, but Ellington kept his band working, occasionally doing shows in ice-skating rinks to stay busy. The Duke Ellington Orchestra did European tours during the early 1950s, and Ellington was chiefly supporting the band himself through royalties earned on his popular compositions of the 1920s to 1940s. At the time of the festival, the band did not even have a record deal.

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