First Time! The Count Meets The Duke DSD256 borderline-manic celebration of musical possibility

borderline-manic celebration of musical possibility

Ma Tête 16:50

Ravel - Le Tombeau De Couperin and Ravel Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte Producer: James Walker Engineer: Roy Wallace

Sourced from RCA Living Stereo 1/S 1/S original pressing

First Time! The Count Meets The Duke DSD256 borderline-manic celebration of musical possibilityThere are few moments in jazz when history doesnt just move forward, it pauses, turns back, and salutes itself. First Time! The Count Meets The Duke is one of those rare occasions. Recorded in July 1961 at Columbias famed 30th Street Studio in New York City and released the following year, the album brought together two orchestras that had written the very grammar of swing: the Count Basie Orchestra and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. The 30th Street