My People
Studio album by
Duke Ellington
Released1965
RecordedAugust 20, 21 & 27, 1963
GenreJazz
Length42:16
LabelContact
ProducerBob Thiele
Duke Ellington chronology
Studio Sessions New York 1963
(1963) 		My People
(1965) 		Ellington '65
(1965)

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.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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][better source needed]

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

References

  1. ^ A Duke Ellington Panorama Archived 2017-09-09 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 28, 2010.
  2. ^ Anderson, D. Derek's Blog: Duke Ellington's My People, accessed May 14, 2019
  3. ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Duke Ellington – My People: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 7, 2020..
  4. ^ "Duke Ellington: My People" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 161. 11 April 1964. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
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