Duke Ellington – Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown (1956) {2000, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.73 GB (ISO) + 754 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: SME Records | Japan | Cat#: SRGS-4547 | Genre: Swing
Even back in the early ’50s, Columbia Records took Duke Ellington seriously enough to place this album on its prestigious Masterworks label, heretofore reserved mostly for highbrow classical music and Broadway shows (later in the decade, though, it was retitled Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown and reissued on the pop series with an additional piece, “The Controversial Suite”). Continue reading “Duke Ellington – Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown (1956) {2000, Japan, Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip}”