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Duets, Vol. 1 - Ruby Braff & Ellis Larkins
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  1. Thou Swell
  2. Where or When
  3. In a Mountain Greenery
  4. I Married an Angel
  5. Blues for Ruby
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  1. Thou Swell
  2. Where or When
  3. In a Mountain Greenery
  4. I Married an Angel
  5. Blues for Ruby
  6. Blue Moon
  7. Love for Sale
  8. What Is There to Say?
  9. Please
  10. Skylark
  11. A Sailboat in the Moonlight
  12. My Romance
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This brings together a dozen tracks originally issued on three different long players in 1956: Two By Two: Music of Rodgers and Hart, and volumes one and two of Two part Inventions in Jazz. Braff's cornet is excellently recorded; every nuance in his playing, from bright to reflective, is audible. Larkins' piano style is a full keyboard stride that, like Braff's cornet work, hearkens back to earlier players like Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, Earl Hines, James P. Johnson, Mel Powell, and Jess Stacey. The pairing of these two ...

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Duets, Vol. 1 2000, Vanguard

UPC: 090204916726

CD

Duets, Vol. 1 1999, Vanguard

UPC: 015707960922

CD