Name: Money Jungle
Brand: Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach

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Catalogue number

27314

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Limited edition

Release date

2024-05-10

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8436542012911

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350262

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COMPLETE ALBUM + BONUS TRACK

8436563185410

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Duke Ellington

Charles Mingus

Max Roach

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Jazz

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Poll Winner Records

Duke Ellington was an influential American jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. He is known for his residency at the Cotton Club from 1927 to 1931 and for composing over a thousand pieces, many of which have become standards in the genre. He frequently collaborated with Billy Strayhorn. Duke Ellington's son, Mercer Ellington, took over leadership of his father's orchestra until his own death in 1996. He is also the grandfather of Edward Ellington.

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Charles Mingus was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist. Born on April 22, 1922 in Nogales, Arizona, USA, he was a forerunner in double bass technique and pioneered innovative studio techniques such as overdubbing and tape cutting. Mingus also authored the autobiographical novel "Beneath The Underdog". He passed away at the age of 56 on January 5, 1979 in Cuernavaca, Mexico due to Lou Gehrig's disease.

Max Roach was an American jazz drummer, bandleader, and artist. He was born on January 10, 1924 in Newland, Pasquotank County, North Carolina and passed away on August 16, 2007 in Manhattan, New York City at the age of 83. Roach was married to singer Abbey Lincoln and their daughter was a talented viola player.
Roach is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished jazz drummers and percussionists of his time. Throughout his career, he collaborated with legendary jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Sonny Rollins.
If you enjoy the music of Andrew Hill, Freddie Hubbard or Oliver Nelson among others from that era of jazz music then Max Roach's work will surely captivate you. His contributions to the genre are highly influential and continue to inspire generations of musicians today.

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

Money Jungle

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Discover Money Jungle by Duke Ellington on Poll Winner Records. Reissued album with the iconic trio collaboration. Vinyl records available.