Ellington in Sweden 1963 (feat. Alice Babs)

Swedish telecast. Stockholm, February 7, 1963
0:02 Take The A Train [feat. Alice Babs, Paul Gonsalves]
7:05 Do Nothin' Tilll You Hear From Me (New Concerto For Cootie) [feat. Lawrence Brown]
09:05 The Blues [feat. Milt Grayson]
12:43 The Eighth Veil [feat. Cat Anderson]
15:22 Star-Crossed Lovers [feat. Johnny Hodges]
19:21 Sophisticated Lady [feat. Harry Carney]
22:50 Honeysuckle Rose [feat. Jimmy Hamilton]
25:58 Take Love Easy [feat. Alice Babs]
28:58 Dancers In Love [feat. DE]
31:07 I Got It Bad [feat. Johnny Hodges]
33:56 Guitar Amour [feat. Ray Nance]
41:20 Tutti For Cootie [feat. Cootie Williams]
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra: Cootie Williams, Roy Burrowes, Cat Anderson (t); Ray Nance (t,vl,v); Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper (tb); Chuck Connors (btb); Jimmy Hamilton (cl,ts); Russell Procope (cl,as); Johnny Hodges (as); Paul Gonsalves (ts); Harry Carney (cl,bcl,as,bar); Duke Ellington (p); Ernie Shepherd (sb); Sam Woodyard (d); Alice Babs; Milt Grayson (v)
Sorry for the poor quality... This video was transfered from an old VHS

[@christerpegel7269]

The best version of "The A train" ever recorded! I was in the audience. One of the greatest moments in my life.

[@jourwalis-8875]

Lucky you!

[@davidsaints1]

Que suerte

[@mmaybrown]

That ballad style version of the Take The A Train with Paul Gonsalves is just divine!

[@rubengreenberg2253]

This is a precious video, for it is one of the few ones with the great Ernie Shepherd on bass.

[@rand007]

What a classic concert. Never get tired of Ellington and band. Always a surprise of creative music innovations.

[@amynoonanmusic]

Can we please talk about the final breath he took at ~21:18 (Sophisticated Lady) and then started CIRCULAR BREATHING at ~21:23, BEFORE the new phrase started and he held that G#/Ab for ~58 seconds, basically an entire minute of breath, counting the notes he played before he held that long note. Wow. What a gift! Thank you for posting! And if this is too poor of audio/visual quality, then you have too high a threshold for what you open yourself up to listen you-you are losing a lot of fun music because a lot of old recordings are just not great, but it's all we've got. Loosen up! Enjoy!

[@MrYannis61]

C'est incroyable .... Alice Babs est inconnue à Genève, la ville internationale O.N.U. etc ....!

[@nickbradey619]

Superb performance ! Thanks for posting this . Alice Babbs superb as always .

[@salmon_sweet4912]

Thank you ! I love Duke Ellington

[@Naderhasan]

Legend

[@rolom3]

She really knows how to scat! 😌

[@MrBumat]

Alice från Västervik ! ❤️

[@pazoo25]

Just glad to have this available! -although some of the sound is wonky- but the Band plays well. Ray Nance is a cut up, and Cootie Williams had just come back in '62.

[@ericanilsson5572]

Skitbra 😄 Så jävla dåligt att det inte finns bättre inspelningar av detta...Duke är en legend. Och att Alice sjöng med med den legenden...
Mvh Erica

[@jourwalis-8875]

The technical quality of sound and vision is so miserable that it is practically un-viewable. I had to stop watch after the first song. A pity.