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My People is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington written and recorded in 1963 for a stage show and originally released on Bob Thiele's short-lived Contact label before being reissued on the Flying Dutchman label and later released on CD on the Red Baron label.[1][2] The album features recordings of compositions by Ellington for a stage show presented in Chicago as part of the Century of Negro Progress Exposition in 1963.

My People
Studio album by Duke Ellington
Released	1965
Recorded	August 20, 21 & 27, 1963
Genre	Jazz
Length	42:16
Label	Contact
Producer	Bob Thiele
Duke Ellington chronology
Studio Sessions New York 1963 (1963) My People (1965) Ellington '65 (1965)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Record Mirror	[4]

Released in 1965 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The reviewer for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote: "My People is a snapshot of a specific era and is most interesting as a representation of its time, not as an individual work."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn

1. "Ain't But the One/Will You Be There?/99%" - 5:16
2. "Come Sunday/David Danced Before the Lord" - 6:09
3. "My Mother, My Father (Heritage)" - 2:50
4. "Montage" - 6:54
5. "My People/The Blues" - 8:56
6. "Workin' Blues/My Man Sends Me/Jail Blues/Lovin' Lover" - 5:57
7. "King Fit the Battle of Alabam'" - 3:25
8. "What Color Is Virtue?" - 2:49

Recorded at Universal Studios, Chicago on August 20 (tracks 1a, 2, 4, 5b, 6a, 6c & 7), August 21 (tracks 1b, 1c, 3, 5a & 8) and August 27 (tracks 6b & 6d), 1963.

Personnel

• Duke Ellington – director, narration
• Ray Nance - cornet
• Bill Berry, Ziggy Harrell, Nat Woodard - trumpet
• Booty Wood, Britt Woodman - trombone
• Chuck Connors - bass trombone
• John Sanders - valve trombone
• Rudy Powell - alto saxophone
• Pete Clark, Russell Procope - alto saxophone, clarinet
• Harold Ashby - tenor saxophone, clarinet
• Bob Freedman - tenor saxophone
• Billy Strayhorn - piano
• Joe Benjamin - bass
• Louis Bellson - drums
• Juan Amalbert - conga
• Joya Sherrill, Lil Greenwood, Jimmy McPhail, Irving Bunton Singers - vocals

References

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