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Claude Bolling Big Band - A Drum Is a Woman (1996) [Swing, Big Band]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

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Claude Bolling Big Band - A Drum Is a Woman (1996) [Swing, Big Band]; FLAC (tracks+.cue)

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Artist: Claude Bolling Big Band
Album: A Drum Is a Woman
Genre: Swing, Big Band
Label: Milan Jazz
Released: 1996
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
  1. A Drum Is a Woman (4:05)
  2. Rhythm Pum Te Dum (3:50)
  3. What Else Can You Do with a Drum (1:59)
  4. New Orleans (2:39)
  5. Hey, Buddy Bolden (6:05)
  6. Carribee Joe (3:48)
  7. Congo Square (6:50)
  8. A Drum Is a Woman Part 2 (3:06)
  9. You Better Know It (2:55)
  10. Madam Zajj (4:48)
  11. Ballet of the Flyin' Saucers (5:26)
  12. Zajj's Dream (3:29)
  13. Rhumbop (2:13)
  14. Carribee Joe Part 2 (3:58)
  15. Final (1:09)

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In 1956, Duke Ellington's show A Drum Is a Woman was broadcast on television. Although utilizing the Ellington orchestra, the emphasis was on a somewhat abstract and bizarre story line involving characters named Madame Zajj and Carribee Joe. Zajj, who is born as Joe's drum, travels the world and becomes famous but still dreams of Carribee Joe, who preferred to remain in the jungle. Forty years after the Ellington telecast, French bandleader Claude Bolling revived the story for a show and this recording. Jeffery Smith is the narrator (at times sounding a bit like Duke Ellington), and he shares the vocals with Laika and Francine Romain while joined by the Claude Bolling Orchestra. The revival performance is well done, but the original story is so odd that the results are just a historical curiosity.
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