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Title: Duke Ellington - Ray Brown – This One's For Blanton
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre: 1975, Jazz, Swing
Matrix #: 2310 721
Condition: VG+

Cultural Facts:

1. A tribute to Jimmy Blanton, the Ellington bassist who reshaped the band’s rhythm identity before dying young in the early 1940s.

2. Pairs Ellington the elder statesman with Ray Brown, a later-generation jazz institution—two eras of Black bandstand culture in one room.

3. Made during jazz’s mid-’70s identity debates, when honoring lineage was also a way of arguing for continuity and craft.

Price Suggestions:
NM: $15–$25
VG+: $12–$20
VG: $8–$14
G: $5–$8
12/26/25