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    Festival Session (Bonus Tracks)

    02/17/2004

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    All Music Guide Review

    The Ellingtonia continues at Legacy with this reissue of Festival Session, a 1959 live outing featuring the newer material alongside the old. This set juxtaposes a pair of the then-new, three-part suites in "Duael Fuel" -- hosting a killer drummers' battle between Sam Woodyard and Jimmy Johnson -- and "Idiom '59," with a killer spotlight focus on Clark Terry and the clarinets of Russell Procope and Jimmy Hamilton. Paul Gonsalves gets his tenor honking due on another new tune called "Copout Extension." Of the vintage material, there is a gorgeous Johnny Hodges' solo on "Things Ain't What They Used to Be," and Terry shines once more on "Perdido." On the 2004 edition, there are a pair of bonus cuts, "V.I.P. Boogie," and "Jam With Sam." Add the beautiful warm sound, the bonus cuts, and a host of tunes that passed from the Duke's catalog because they never caught fire with crowds, and you have a close scope on what the band was like at a particular juncture -- yeah, they were smoking hot, and Duke was already 60. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

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