Ellington Uptown
by Duke Ellington And His Orchestra

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Ellington Uptown by Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Year: 1953
Overall rank: 2,794th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 96 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1953 (2nd)
Award Top 100 albums of of the 1950s (84th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,794th)

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Duke Ellington And His Orchestra bestography

Ellington Uptown is ranked 2nd best out of 84 albums by Duke Ellington on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Duke Ellington is Ellington At Newport which is ranked number 1053 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,662.

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra album bestography « Higher ranked (1,053rd)
Ellington At Newport This album (2,794th)
Ellington Uptown Lower ranked (3,063rd) »
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Ellington Uptown rankings

Ellington Uptown rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,794th | 1950s rank: 84th | 1953 rank: 2nd  Overall chart history
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76/100 (from 96 votes)
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From 09/18/2013 02:39 | #86230 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I've yet to hear a mediocre recording from The Duke, but this one is something special. It's more energetic and adventurous than his work with the Blanton-Webster band. There are a lot of great tracks, but I especially enjoyed "A Tone Parallel to Harlem."
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From 01/30/2016 20:16 | #158230 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Holy drums Batman at the end of Skin Deep! A Train is just a classic and solid scat singing. Dug the Mooche. The rest is pretty standard. Surprised this isn't rated higher with other big Jazz albums of the 50s.
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From 02/19/2013 18:43 | #65530 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The first two tracks (Skin Deep and The Mooche) are perfect! Then it starts to be just a normal, nice to listen to jazz. Bus still, a really nice album.
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From 11/18/2019 09:07 | #244965 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
there is a doubt if this album belongs to this year, there is a 1951 release
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From 03/26/2016 11:51 | #162640 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
A fine record by a jazz genius.
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