Piano in the Foreground is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded and released on the Columbia label in 1961.[1] It features Ellington in a piano trio setting, emphasising his own keyboard prowess rather than the big band arrangements more typical of his recordings.
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:All compositions by Duke Ellington except as indicated
- "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 4:23
- "Cong-Go" (Aaron Bell, Ellington) – 4:16
- "Body and Soul" (Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Johnny Green) – 4:49
- "Blues for Jerry" – 4:38
- "Fontainebleau Forest" – 2:53
- "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward) – 3:52
- "It's Bad to Be Forgotten" – 3:22
- "A Hundred Dreams Ago" – 2:26
- "So" – 4:33
- "Searching (Pleading for Love)" – 1:49
- "Springtime in Africa" (Bell, Ellington) – 3:46
- "Lotus Blossom" (Billy Strayhorn) – 3:18
- "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 4:00 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "All the Things You Are" [alternate take] (Hammerstein, Kern) – 3:51 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Piano Improvisation No. 2" – 3:25 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Piano Improvisation No. 3" – 2:48 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Piano Improvisation No. 4" – 1:53 Bonus track on CD reissue
- "Piano Improvisation No. 1" – 9:45 Bonus track on CD reissue
- at Columbia Records 30th Street Studio on March 20, 1957 (tracks 15–18) (stereo)
- at Columbia Records 30th Street Studio on October 10, 1957 (tracks 13–14) (monaural)
- at Radio Recorders, Los Angeles on March 1, 1961 (tracks 1–11) & March 2, 1961 (track 12) (stereo)
