The Great Paris Concert Grilchy Party and founding member of the

and founding member of the band

but the party has kept on—and this party music

If Miles Davis had been a generation older and still a talent spotting genius

Everything is here: the birth of cool

One of the rising stars of UK jazz

The Great Paris Concert Grilchy Party and founding member of theThis set came about, in part, as a result of Ellington's signing to Frank Sinatra's Reprise label in November 1962, with the ending of his exclusive contract to Columbia. Six numbers from the three Paris dates were initially edited and released by Reprise as part of the ten song Duke Ellington's Greatest Hits, but the bulk of the performances from those shows didn't surface until many years later as The Great Paris Concert on two LPs. This album The