Duke Ellington – Ellingtonia Reevaluations: The Impulse Years (VG/VG) – 2xLP, US 1973

Ellingtonia Reevaluations: The Impulse Years is an LP by Duke Ellington from 1973 released on the ABC Records, Impulse! label.

About this album

Ellingtonia Reevaluations: The Impulse Years is a sharp compilation that revisits Duke Ellington’s late-career Impulse recordings, a period that brought fresh focus to his enduring big-band language. Issued in 1973, it draws together performances that show how Ellington could still rethink standards, blues forms and original themes without losing his signature swing, elegance and harmonic imagination. With material associated with John Coltrane as well as Ellington staples such as Caravan and In a Sentimental Mood, the collection highlights the breadth of his late work and the continuing vitality of his orchestra during the Impulse era. It is a useful portrait of Ellington in reflective, still adventurous mode.

Genre: Jazz