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Piano in the Foreground

Piano in the Foreground is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded and released on the Columbia label in 1961. It features Ellington in a piano trio setting, emphasizing his own keyboard prowess rather than the big band arrangements more typical of his recordings.

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated

  1. "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 4:23
  2. "Cong-Go" (Aaron Bell, Ellington) – 4:16
  3. "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton) – 4:49
  4. "Blues for Jerry" – 4:38
  5. "Fontainebleau Forest" – 2:53
  6. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) – 3:52
  7. "It's Bad to Be Forgotten" – 3:22
  8. "A Hundred Dreams Ago" – 2:26
  9. "So" – 4:33
  10. "Searching (Pleading for Love)" – 1:49
  11. "Springtime in Africa" (Bell, Ellington) – 3:46
  12. "Lotus Blossom" (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:18
  13. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 4:00 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small>
  14. "All the Things You Are" [alternate take] (Kern, Hammerstein) – 3:51 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small>
  15. "Piano Improvisation No. 2" – 3:25 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small>
  16. "Piano Improvisation No. 3" – 2:48 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small>
  17. "Piano Improvisation No. 4" – 1:53 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small>
  18. "Piano Improvisation No. 1" – 9:45 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small>

Recorded:

  • at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City, on March 20, 1957 (tracks 15–18) (stereo)
  • at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City, on October 10, 1957 (tracks 13–14) (mono)
  • at Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, on March 1, 1961 (tracks 1–11) & March 2, 1961 (track 12) (stereo)

Personnel

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