Newport 1958 is a 1958 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...

, recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival

Newport Jazz Festival

The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It was established in 1954 by socialite Elaine Lorillard, who, together with husband Louis Lorillard, financed the festival for many years. The couple hired jazz impresario George Wein to organize the...

 of that year and later in the Columbia recording studio. The original album, Newport 1958 and the French Columbia CD #COL 468436 2 are mostly studio re-recordings of numbers performed at Newport. There is also dubbed in applause and crowd noise from Newport.

During this time, Duke was frequently re-recording pieces that were performed live in the studio to be included on "live" albums. This was because he felt the live performances were not up to his standards. Only the tracks, "Just Scratchin' the Surface" and "Prima Bara Dubla" are from Newport on the original album. The double CD is all the music performed at Newport on July 3, 1958. The third CD was issued by Mosaic Records

Mosaic Records

Mosaic Records is an American specialist jazz record label, founded in 1983 by Michael Cuscuna and Charlie Lourie to issue coherent limited edition box sets of jazz recordings by individual musicians, which had fallen out-of-print...

 and contains all of the original album, minus the dubbed in crowd noise and applause. It also contains select live tracks from Newport to fill out the CD.

Track listing

1. "Just Scratchin' the Surface" (Duke Ellington) - 6:45
2. "El Gato" (William "Cat" Anderson) - 4:18
3. "Happy Reunion" (Duke Ellington) - 2:58
4. "Multi-Colored Blue" (Billy Strayhorn
   Billy Strayhorn
   William Thomas "Billy" Strayhorn was an American composer, pianist and arranger, best known for his successful collaboration with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington lasting nearly three decades. His compositions include "Chelsea Bridge", "Take the "A" Train" and "Lush Life".-Early...
   
   ) - 5:33
5. "Princess Blue" (Duke Ellington
   Duke Ellington
   Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
   
   ) - 10:33
6. "Jazz Festival Jazz" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) - 7:20
7. "Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool" (Harold Shorty Baker, (Duke Ellington) - 7:06
8. "Juniflip" (Duke Ellington) - 3:49
9. "Prima Bara Dubla" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) - 5:43
10. "Hi Fi Fo Fum" (Duke Ellington) - 5:58

Track listing

Disc one

1. Introduction by Willis Conover
   Willis Conover
   Willis Clark Conover, Jr. was a jazz producer and broadcaster on the Voice of America for over forty years. He produced jazz concerts at the White House, the Newport Jazz Festival, and for movies and television. By arranging concerts where people of all races were welcome, he is credited with...
   
    - 1:12
2. "Take the "A" Train" [excerpt] (Billy Strayhorn) - 0:45
3. "Princess Blue" (Duke Ellington
   Duke Ellington
   Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
   
   ) - 12:18
4. "Duke's Place" (Duke Ellington, Bill Katz, Bob Thiele
   Bob Thiele
   Bob Thiele was an American record producer who worked on countless classic jazz albums and record labels.-Biography:...
   
   ) - 2:44
5. "Just Scratchin' the Surface" (Duke Ellington) - 6:24
6. "Happy Reunion" (Duke Ellington) - 3:21
7. "Juniflip" (Duke Ellington) - 4:02
8. "Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool" (Harold Shorty Baker, Duke Ellington) - 7:17
9. "Jazz Festival Jazz" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) - 7:08
10. "Feet Bone" (Duke Ellington) - 3:10

Disc two

1. "Hi Fi Fo Fum" (Duke Ellington) - 7:52
2. "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
   I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
   "I Got It Bad " is a pop and jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster published in 1941...
   
   " (Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster
   Paul Francis Webster
   Paul Francis Webster was an American lyricist who won three Academy Awards for Best Song and was nominated sixteen times for the award.-Biography:...
   
   ) - 3:42
3. "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" (Hughie Cannon
   Hughie Cannon
   Hughie Cannon was a composer and lyricist who was born in Detroit 1877 and died in 1912 in Toledo.-His Works and Bio:His best known composition was the popular song Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey. He wrote the song at the age of sixteen and this ragtime song was published in 1902...
   
   ) - 2:55
4. "Prima Bara Dubla" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) - 6:52
5. "El Gato" (William "Cat" Anderson) - 4:43
6. "Multi-Colored Blue" (Billy Strayhorn) - 6:32
7. Introduction to Mahalia Jackson
   Mahalia Jackson
   Mahalia Jackson – January 27, 1972) was an African-American gospel singer. Possessing a powerful contralto voice, she was referred to as "The Queen of Gospel"...
   
    (Willis Conover) - 1:54
8. "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) - 7:08
9. "Keep Your Hand on the Plow
   Gospel Plow
   "Gospel Plow" is a traditional American folk song. It is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index, number 10075. The title is biblical, based on Luke 9:62.-Recordings:* Duke Ellington Newport Jazz Festival...
   
   " (traditional) - 5:20
10. "Take the 'A' Train" [excerpt] (Billy Strayhorn) - 0:31
11. "Jones" (Duke Ellington, Pauline Reddon) - 2:28

Track listing

Studio tracks

1. "El Gato" (William "Cat" Anderson) - 4:10
2. "Happy Reunion" (Duke Ellington) - 2:03
3. "Multi-Colored Blue" (Billy Strayhorn) - 5:00
4. "Princess Blue" (Duke Ellington
   Duke Ellington
   Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
   
   ) - 10:26
5. "Jazz Festival Jazz" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) - 7:06
6. "Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool" (Harold Shorty Baker, Duke Ellington) - 6:59
7. "Juniflip" (Duke Ellington) - 3:38
8. "Hi Fi Fo Fum" (Duke Ellington) - 5:42

Live tracks

9. "Just Scratchin' the Surface" (Duke Ellington) - 6:24
   
10. "Happy Reunion" (Duke Ellington) - 3:23
    
11. "Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool" (Harold Shorty Baker, Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington
    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
    
    ) - 7:08
    
12. "Jazz Festival Jazz" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) - 7:06
    
13. "Feet Bone" (Duke Ellington)-3:03
    
14. "Prima Bara Dubla" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) - 6:58