East St. Louis Toodle-O / Birmingham Breakdown

by Duke Ellington

East St. Louis Toodle-O / Birmingham Breakdown cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: March 1927
  • Label: Vocalion
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 4.13/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Opening with Bubber Miley's famously sinister growling trumpet, this instrumental defined the bandleader's early, mysterious aesthetic. The dense, urban arrangement proved that dance band music could simultaneously possess immense compositional depth and emotional grit.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, melodic, instrumental, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. East St. Louis Toodle-O = El Tudel-O De East Saint Louis
  2. Birmingham Breakdown = El Quiebro De Birmingham

Credits

  • Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra - primary artist
  • Duke Ellington - written-by

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