Black, Brown and Beige (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Black, Brown and Beige
Type = Album
Artist = Duke Ellington


Released = 1958
Recorded = 1958
Genre = Swing
Big band music
Length = 72:48
Label = Columbia
Producer = Irving Townsend
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9ranqj7yojha]
Last album = "Live at the 1957 Stratford Festival"
(1957)
This album = "Black, Brown, and Beige"
(1958)
Next album = "Newport Jazz Festival (1958)"
(1958)

"Black, Brown and Beige" is a 1958 jazz album by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, featuring Mahalia Jackson.

The album is a recording of a revised version of Ellington's "Black, Brown and Beige" suite. After a disappointing critical response to its first performance in 1943, Ellington divided the three-part suite into six shorter sections, leaving in "Come Sunday" and "Work Song", and it is this version that is recorded here.

Personnel

*Duke Ellington — piano
*William "Cat" Anderson — trumpet
*Harold Shorty Baker — trumpet
*Clark Terry — trumpet
*Ray Nance — trumpet, violin
*John Sanders — valve trombone
*Quentin Jackson — trombone
*Britt Woodman — trombone
*Paul Gonsalves — tenor saxophone
*Bill Graham — alto saxophone
*Harry Carney — baritone saxophone
*Jimmy Woode — bass
*Sam Woodyard — drums
*Mahalia Jackson — vocals

Track listing

#"Part I" –8:17
#"Part II" –6:14
#"Part III" (aka Light) –6:26
#"Part IV" (aka Come Sunday) –7:58
#"Part V" (aka Come Sunday) –3:46
#"Part VI" (23rd Psalm) –3:01
#:"Bonus tracks on re-releases"
#"Track 360" (aka Trains) (alternative take) -2:02
#"Blues in Orbit" (aka Tender) (alternative take) -2:36
#"Part I" (alternative take) –6:49
#"Part II" (alternative take) –6:38
#"Part III" (alternative take) –3:08
#"Part IV" (alternative take) –2:23
#"Part V" (alternative take) –5:51
#"Part VI" (alternative take) –1:59
#"Studio conversation" (Mahalia Swears) –0:07
#"Come Sunday" ("a cappella") –5:47
#"(Pause track)" –0:06