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Duke Ellington Ellington Indigos Numbered Limited Edition 180g 45rpm 2LP (Indigo Purple Vinyl)

Duke Ellington

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IMXLP6060-45
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TAS Rated 5/5 Music, 5/5 Sonics in the May/June 2024 Issue of The Absolute Sound!

Michael Fremer Rated 9/10 Music, 9/10 Sound!

65th Anniversary Edition 180g Double LP!
First Time on AAA 45rpm Vinyl!
Mastered by Chris Bellman & Pressed at RTI!
Includes 4 All-Analog Mono Bonus Tracks on Vinyl for the First Time!

Special Los Angeles and Orange County Audiophile Society Edition Indigo Purple Vinyl Strictly Limited to 1,000 Numbered Pressings!

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Duke Ellington's gorgeous 1958 release, already an audiophile stand out on Impex 33-rpm vinyl and 24k Gold CD, gets all the stops pulled out on our 65th Anniversary 45-rpm LPs! Exclusive new packaging and all-analog mastering provides experiential and immersive musical engagement that has The Absolute Sound's Wayne Garcia calling it, "A musical gem, sonic knockout. What a record!" 5/5 music - 5/5 sonics

We're also debuting a super-quiet, super-limited-edition solid Indigo purple vinyl edition! Made in collaboration with our friends at the Los Angeles Orange County Audio Society in honor of their 30th Anniversary, we carefully selected vinyl chips, with help from the vinyl gurus at RTI, to craft one of the quietest color LPs ever made — all without dramatically changing the tonal excellence of the original recording!

Strictly limited to 3,000 black and 1,000 purple HQ-180 pressings, Ellington Indigos on 45rpm HQ-180 will once again redefine definitive for this timeless jazz orchestra standard!

Impex's new 65th anniversary edition of Ellington Indigos will in all likelihood offer the ne plus ultra in every conceivable aspect of the listening experience. Each of these tracks is a masterclass by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, and every soloist presents a veritable clinic of jazz interpretation and improvisation. The performances on this album are so perfectly realized that none of the Duke Ellington LPs that are in my collection can hold a candle to Ellington Indigos. With the strictly limited number of pressings available—especially so with the Indigo Purple colored vinyl variant—you don't want to wait too long. These performances are to die for, and the sound quality of both vinyl versions is beyond reproach!
IMPEX once again sets a high bar for presentation and sonics. My original '6-Eye' pressing has a warm, somewhat distant sound compared to this vibrant, alive sounding reissue that no doubt gives you what's on the tape or as close as a record can come to a tape.
-Michael Fremer, Tracking Angle, Music 9/10, Sound 9/10
Whatever my expectations, what I heard was a dramatic improvement, evident from the first few notes. The piano has far more texture in the new mastering. The percussion is far more dynamic and the separation or air between the players is significantly improved. I will go out on a limb here and say that this is perhaps the most improved 33 to 45 RPM re-issue I've heard. Hopefully it will go some way towards revitalizing interest in this shamefully ignored classic from the golden age of jazz. Of all the luxuriously packaged audiophile re-issues of the past few years, this one definitely delivers some serious musical bang for your bucks... Do Jazz reissues get any better than this?

Features

  • Special Los Angeles and Orange County Audiophile Society Edition
  • Numbered, Limited-Edition Indigo Purple Vinyl
  • Mastered with a 1:1 Flat Transfer of the Original Analog Master Tapes by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering
  • Two 45-rpm LPs Pressed at RTI
  • Four All-Analog Mono Bonus tracks on Vinyl for the First Time*
  • The Full Impex Treatment Packaging featuring a 16-Page Heavy-Stock Booklet with Rare Photos & New Historical Notes by Producer/Author/Historian Charles L. Granata
  • Indigo Purple Vinyl Strictly Limited to Only 1,000 Pressings

Musicians

Ray Nance trumpet
"Cat" Anderson trumpet
"Shorty" Baker trumpet
Clark Terry trumpet
Willie Cook trumpet
Sam Woodyard drums
John Sanders trombone
Britt Woodman trombone
Quentin Jackson trombone
Jimmy Wood bass
Johnny Hodges sax
Harry Carney sax
Russell Procope sax
Jimmy Hamilton sax
Paul Gonsalves sax
Duke Ellington piano

Selections

Side One:

  1. Solitude
  2. Where or When
  3. Mood Indigo

Side Two:

  1. Autumn Leaves
  2. Prelude To a Kiss
  3. Willow Weep for Me

Side Three:

  1. Tenderly
  2. Dancing In the Dark
  3. Night and Day*

Side Four:

  1. All the Things You Are*
  2. The Sky Fell Down*
  3. Love (My Heart, My Mind, My Everything)*

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