The Great Summit

The Great Summit: The Master Takes
Studio album by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
Released	1961
Recorded	April 3–4, 1961
Studio	RCA Victor Studio One (New York City)
Genre	Jazz
Length	1:07:23
Label	Roulette (Blue Note)
Producer	Bob Thiele
Duke Ellington chronology
Piano in the Foreground (1961) The Great Summit: The Master Takes (1961) Paris Blues (1961)
Louis Armstrong chronology
A Rare Batch of Satch (1961) The Great Summit: The Master Takes (1961) I Love Jazz (1962)
Together for the First Time
Original album cover.
The Great Reunion
Original album cover.

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The Great Summit: The Master Takes is a 2001 Blue Note album by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. It is a reissue of the two Roulette albums Together For The First Time (track 1–10) and The Great Reunion (track 11–17) from 1961. (These two albums have later resurfaced as a Roulette double-LP entitled The Duke Ellington/Louis Armstrong Years and in 1990 as a remastered CD called Together for the First Time/The Great Reunion.)

The contents of this album is an all-Ellington program performed by himself and Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars. These 17 selections are the entire result of the only studio meeting by Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. They both lead a small band - Louis Armstrong's All Stars - and play classic compositions by Ellington such as "Mood Indigo" and "Black And Tan Fantasy".