music.wikisort.org - Composition"Isfahan" is a jazz piece credited to Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington and released on Ellington's 1967 album The Far East Suite; Isfahan is a city in Iran. It features long-time Ellington soloist Johnny Hodges on alto saxophone. It was originally called Elf when Strayhorn[1] composed it, months before the 1963 Ellington orchestra world tour during which the group traveled to Iran.
1967 jazz song by Duke Ellington
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| Released | 1967 |
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| Recorded | December 1966 |
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| Genre | Jazz |
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| Length | 4:02
4:11 (alternative take) |
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| Label | Bluebird/RCA |
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| Songwriter(s) | Billy Strayhorn
Duke Ellington |
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| Producer(s) | Brad McKuen |
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"Mynah"
(1966) |
"Isfahan"
(1967) |
"Depk"
(1966) |
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Legacy
Isfahan is widely considered as a jazz standard.
In The Penguin Guide to Jazz, Richard Cook and Brian Morton have suggested that "Isfahan is arguably the most beautiful item in Ellington's and Strayhorn's entire output."[2]
In 1988 the song was presented in Studio Sessions New York 1963 by LMR label and later on by the Saja Records.[3]
Notable covers
Personnel
- Cootie Williams — trumpet
- William "Cat" Anderson — trumpet
- Mercer Ellington — trumpet & flugelhorn
- Herbie Jones — trumpet & flugelhorn
- Lawrence Brown — trombone
- Buster Cooper — trombone
- Chuck Connors — trombone
- Jimmy Hamilton — clarinet & tenor saxophone
- Johnny Hodges — alto saxophone (solo)
- Russell Procope — alto saxophone & clarinet
- Paul Gonsalves — tenor saxophone
- Harry Carney — baritone saxophone
- Duke Ellington — piano
- John Lamb — bass
- Rufus Jones — drums
See also
- Duke Ellington discography
References
- David Hajdu, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996, ISBN 0-86547-512-1, page 234.
- Morton, Brian; Richard Cook (2010) [1992]. The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (10th ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 437–438. ISBN 978-0-14-104831-4.
- A Duke Ellington Panorama accessed June 28, 2010
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