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Cristiano Radtke
I'm not sure, but I'm almost certain that the Duke's version comes from his Ellington Uptown LP. Take a listen from 1:20 onwards:
EDIT: That's THE version. I compared this one with the Still Life intro and they're the same.
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Cristiano Radtke
I wonder if "Ellington Uptown" is the record he mentions on this interview:
"Was part of the Stones' success down to the fact that each of you had really done your homework?
I sort of agree with that. Everything's easier and quicker now. I wanted to be Max Roach or Kenny Clarke playing in New York with Charlie Parker in the front line. Not a bad aspiration. It actually meant a lot of bloody playing, a lot of work. I don't think kids are interested in that. But that may be true of every generation, I don't know. When I was what you'd call a young musician, jazz was very fashionable. It was very hip to know there was a new Miles Davis album out. Now no one knows what records come out. Especially me! Because of this thing [gestures at my iPhone recording the interview, with the inference that it is somehow the devil's work] … But in those days … an album: you kept it, you treasured it.
You must have really studied the records you had.
Oh, we did. I remember a Duke Ellington album that we played for ever".
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