Festival Session
| Festival Session | ||||
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| Released | 1959 | |||
| Recorded | September 8, 1959 | |||
| Studio | Columbia 30th Street (New York) | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
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Festival Session is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for the Columbia Records label in 1959. The album was rereleased on CD in 2004 with two bonus tracks.
According to the original liner notes by Irving Townsend, Ellington waited with the recording of the new material till the end of the festival season, before he started the recording session in New York and finally recorded the whole album "from 8 a.m. to Noon".