Title: 22 GREAT VIDEOS OF EARLY DUKE ELLINGTON
Product review: Just to balance out an incredibly vapid 2 Star review from someone who says "it could have been better" but does not say how. As this 60 min. DVD appears to contains all the available black and white snippets Duke made in Hollywood in the 30's one wonders where the compilers went wrong? The visual and sound quality is remarkably good too. For the rest of my review please see the comment I added before realising it was a DUTY to let Ellington enthusiasts know this is as good a visual historical record of his 1929-43 period as you are likely to get. There are a few other videos of his later bands contained in the PBS 2-part documentary but to see them means ploughing thru 2 hours of Ducal interviews (which can get rather boring watched over and over).
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