All Star Road Band


All Star Road Band is a live album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded at Sunset Ballroom in Carrolltown, Pennsylvania, for radio broadcast and first released as a double LP on Bob Thiele's Doctor Jazz label in 1983. The album was rereleased on CD under the title All Star Road Band Volume One.

Reception

Commenting on the original release in The New York Times, jazz critic John S. Wilson wrote: "It is a collection that brings Duke Ellington and his orchestra vividly alive for anyone who ever saw them and it may offer an explanation of his personal and musical charisma for those who missed him." The AllMusic review by Heather Phares stated: "Fresh arrangements of 'Take the 'A' Train', 'Mood Indigo', 'I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)' and 'Sophisticated Lady' make this set as invigorating now as it was."

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington except where noted
Disc 1
  1. "Take the 'A' Train" – 4:57
  2. "Take the 'A' Train" – 2:50 Vocal by Ray Nance
  3. "Such Sweet Thunder" – 2:54
  4. "Frustration" – 3:39
  5. "Cop Out" – 3:14
  6. "Perdido" – 4:34
  7. "Mood Indigo" - 8:05
  8. "Bassment" – 4:30
Disc 2
  1. "Sophisticated Lady" – 3:56
  2. "Stardust" – 3:54
  3. "Jeeps Blues" – 5:58
  4. "All of Me" – 2:38
  5. "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" – 11:60
  6. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)" – 3:26
  7. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" – 4:34

Personnel