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Record Details

Artists: Duke Ellington / Count Basie
Title: First Time! The Count Meets The Duke
Format: CD
Label: Columbia / Legacy / Columbia / Legacy
Cat No: CK 65571 / CK 65571 / 0655712000 / 0655712000
Released: 1999
Country:
Genres: Big BandSwing
Status Have
Added To List 8th January 2015
Disc 1 | CD
No Notes 
A Matrix:
Sony Music S0655712000-0101 A00  
B Matrix:
Sony Music S0655712000-0101 34 A00  

Additional Information

Comments 36-page booklet.

"Tracks 1-8 made up the original album, Columbia CL 1715 (Mono)/CS 8515 (Stereo), released in 1962. Tracks 3 & 7 were shortened on the original stereo issue. They are issued here in stereo but at full length as on the original mono release. Track 9 was previously released--in pseudo-stereo--first appearing in 1972 on The World Of Swing, Columbia KG-32945. Track 13 was previously released, first appearing on Black Giants, Columbia PG-33402. The ending was faded out on previous issues. Tracks 10-12, and 14 & 15 are issued for the first time. Tracks 10, 15, & 16 are indexed." [booklet]

Recorded July 6-7, 1961.
Duke Ellington Orchestra heard in the right channel.
Count Basie Orchestra heard in the left channel.

© 1962, 1999 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
℗ 1999 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

"Originally recorded 1961, originally released 1962, 1974, 1975" [along disk edge and on tray]
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