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The Great Paris Concert

live album

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ1236583 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Great Paris Concert is a 1973 live double album by jazz pianist Duke Ellington preserving pieces of a series of performances given in Paris during February 1963, a decade prior the release. For the 1989 CD reissue, 10 additional recordings from the same series of Paris concerts were added to the release. These 10 performances had previously been released on the 1967 LP Duke Ellington's Greatest Hits: Recorded "Live" In Concert (Reprise RS-6234).

Track listing

All tracks written by Duke Ellington unless otherwise noted.

All tracks live.

Editorial summary

“The Great Paris Concert” enters the record as live album. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Great, Paris and Concert can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 1963, 1989, 1967—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Great, Paris and Concert.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“The Great Paris Concert” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Great, Paris and Concert provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1236583. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1973, 1963, 1989 and 1967.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “The Great Paris Concert” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.