{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Duke's Delight | type = Album | artist = [[Duke Jordan]] Quintet | cover = Duke's Delight.jpg | alt = | released = 1976 | recorded = November 18, 1975 | venue = | studio = C. I. Recording Studios, NYC | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = 60:11 <small>CD with bonus tracks </small> | label = [[SteepleChase Records|SteepleChase]] <small>SCS 1046</small> | producer = Nils Winther | chronology = [[Duke Jordan]] | prev_title = [[Misty Thursday]] | prev_year = 1975 | next_title = [[Lover Man (Duke Jordan album)|Lover Man]] | next_year = 1975 }}
'''''Duke's Delight''''' is an album led by pianist [[Duke Jordan]] recorded in 1975 and released on the Danish [[SteepleChase Records|SteepleChase]] label.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/duke-jordan/catalog/#steeplechase-scs-1046 Duke Jordan discography], accessed March 12, 2015</ref><ref>[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Steeplechase_1000.htm SteepleChase Records discography], accessed March 19, 2015</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=802}}</ref> }}
In his review for [[AllMusic]], [[Scott Yanow]] said "The date lives up to its potential".<ref name="Allmusic">{{allMusic|first=Scott|last=Yanow|class=album|id=mw0000049531|title=''Duke's Delight'' – Review|accessdate= March 12, 2015}}</ref>
==Track listing== ''All compositions by Duke Jordan except as indicated'' # "Truth" – 7:55 # "[[(In My) Solitude]]" ([[Eddie DeLange]], [[Duke Ellington]], [[Irving Mills]]) – 5:36 # "Sultry Eve" – 9:46 # "Undecided Lady" – 6:07 # "Tall Grass" – 9:13 # "Duke's Delight" – 7:25 # "Undecided Lady" [Alternate Take] – 6:32 <small>Bonus track on CD release</small> # "Duke's Delight" [Alternate Take] – 7:37 <small>Bonus track on CD release</small>
==Personnel== *[[Duke Jordan]] – [[piano]] *[[Richard Williams (musician)|Richard Williams]] – [[trumpet]] (tracks 1 & 3–8) *[[Charlie Rouse]] – [[tenor saxophone]] (tracks 1 & 3–8) *[[Sam Jones (musician)|Sam Jones]] – [[double bass|bass]] (tracks 1 & 3–8) *[[Al Foster]] – [[drum kit|drums]] (tracks 1 & 3–8)
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