Ellington - Wildest piano Loren Schoenberg ever heard?

[hopkins]

I came across Loren Schoenberg's SoundCloud page. He posted, a few years ago, this wonderful recording of "Take The A-Train" containing a lengthy piano introduction (and highly original, based on the various versions I have heard):

Here is the track, if for some reason you cannot play it from SoundCloud:

https://storage.googleapis.com/cloudplayer/samples/The wildest Ellington piano I've ever heard.mp3

He indicates "March 4/5, 1958". According to the "Where or When" website this should be either the Travis or Mather Air Force Base dances. 

Anyone know if this is available ? Some of those two dates were issued on the "Private Collection" series, but not this track.

Thanks

He also has some recordings labeled "Duke on Fire", which seem to correspond, based on the tracks, to a December 29, 1945 broadcast from the Queensway club in Toronto, but those don't seem to be available either.

Edited December 20, 2023 by hopkins

[AllenLowe]

Noisy audience. Maybe he was waiting for them to quiet down.

[JSngry]

I love those location recordings from the dances where the balances are...imperfect. You can hear inside the sections, and with a band like this that could never be defended on to play the same thing exactly the same way two nights in a row, it can be a real treat! 

[miles65]

Thanks for posting this. I did not know about it. As Ellington once remarked in introducing a song  "... and then the piano player comes in and steals the show".