Hey Jazz Douchebags! Post a version or several of "Take the 'A'Train"

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Since I already YSI'd this one, I'll start the thread. Here's the Ellington original on The Blanton-Webster Band

As I mentioned on the Lonely Woman thread, if anybody has the Sun Ra solo piano version, I will honor your children and grandchildren.

From the Big Noise compilation, Mambomania's "Mango Mango Mangüé" (trust me on this)

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a Sun Ra version of this on Sunrise in Different Dimensions (don't remember if it's solo or not).

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Sun Ra & his Arkestra, Live at Montreux:

― Eggzakly Huhh? (zachary v.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Mingus transposes it with Exactly Like You (Jimmy McHugh) on Mingus Revisited and its AWESOME! http://webusers.siba.fi/~eonttone/mingus/details/polygram/826496-s.jpg

― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh shit, I just read the original post in its entirety. Here's the Sun Ra piano intro into Take the A Train. Maybe that's what you're looking for?:

― Eggzakly Huhh? (zachary v.), Thursday, 8 December 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

That's the one, thanks! I had forgotten the solo part was an intro to the full band version.

get the uptown version

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 9 December 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link

the king sisters, "take the 'a' train"

― thor heyerdahl (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 9 December 2005 08:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Deny the majesty of Leon Thomas at your peril, douchebags!

From the 2002 CD reissue of 'Spirits Known and Unknown'

― Bobby Peace (Bobby Peace), Friday, 9 December 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Freejazz yodelling at last!

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 9 December 2005 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Friday, 9 December 2005 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link

any more?

(That mingus sounds like a winner)

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's another Sun Ra, but this is from his (fantastic, mostly below the radar) solo piano album that came out posthumously a couple years ago:

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link

― todd (todd), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 04:50 (eighteen years ago) link

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