Piano in the Foreground
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| Studio album by Duke Ellington | ||||
| Released | 1961 | |||
| Recorded | March 1 & 2, 1961 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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Piano in the Foreground is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded and released on the Columbia label in 1961. It features Ellington in a small group setting, emphasising his own piano prowess rather than the big band arrangements more typical of his recordings.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "This rare trio session by Duke Ellington was the first of several in the early '60s that featured his piano in a variety of settings. It is particularly interesting hearing Ellington, along with three standards and a blues, performing some of his rarer compositions... One wishes that today's revivalists when playing "the Duke Ellington Songbook" would bring back some of his true obscurities such as the ones on this somewhat forgotten session".
:All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated
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