Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach - Money Jungle

The Poll Winners label is devoted to the reissue of albums that received the maximum 5-Star review ratings in the iconic jazz magazine DownBeat, this felease features the complete original album Money Jungle (United Artists UAS 15017), which was the only trio collaboration of Duke Ellington with Charles Mingus and Max Roach. Both Mingus and Roach greatly admired Duke Ellington, who himself briefly featured Roach in his band during the early 1950s and expressed on multiple occasions his appreciation for Mingus' compositions. Most of the repertoire here was especially composed for the date, but there are also three standards from the Ellington book - Warm Valley, Caravan, and Solitude.

As a bonus, this edition also offers for comparison, studio orchestral versions of the Caravan and Solitude by the Ellington Orchestra.

Includes a comprehensive 12-page booklet.