1943-47 V-Disc Recordings

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Ellington Mood
  2:55
• 2
  Air-Conditioned Jungle
  2:55
• 3
  Sophisticated Lady
  2:49
• 4
  Azure
  2:22
• 5
  Black Brown & Beige, Part 1
  6:43
• 6
  Black Brown & Beige, Part 2
  6:29
• 7
  Kissing Bug
  3:02
• 8
  Carnegie Blues
  2:50
• 9
  Creole Love Call
  4:27
• 10
  Diminuendo in Blue
  2:22
• 11
  Crescendo in Blue
  4:07
• 12
  Deep South Suite: Magnolias Dripping in Molasses
  6:20
• 13
  Deep South Suite: Hearsay (Orson Welles)
  4:41
• 14
  Deep South Suite: Nobody Was Looking
  2:52
• 15
  Deep South Suite: Happy Go Lucky Local
  6:00
• 16
  Esquire Swank
  4:21
• 17
  Flamingo
  3:24
• 18
  Frantic Fantasy
  4:41
• CD 2
• 1
  Frankie and Johnny, Part 1
  4:11
• 2
  Frankie and Johnny, Part 2
  3:11
• 3
  Hollywood Hangover
  3:37
• 4
  I Never Felt This Way Before
  3:28
• 5
  Live and Love Tonight
  3:00
• 6
  In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
  5:44
• 7
  It Don't Mean a Thing
  4:29
• 8
  Perfume Suite, Part 1
  5:48
• 9
  Perfume Suite, Part 2
  5:10
• 10
  Prelude to a Kiss
  2:54
• 11
  Ring Dem Bells
  3:15
• 12
  Take the "A" Train
  2:42
• 13
  Sentimental Lady
  2:51
• 14
  The Mood to Be Wooed
  5:03
• 15
  Things Ain't What They Used to Be
  3:19
• 16
  Unbooted Character
  4:40
• 17
  Warm Valley
  3:23
• 18
  I'm Checkin' Out, Goom-Bye
  1:57
• 19
  Tootin' Through the Roof
  2:10
• CD 3
• 1
  (A) New World a Comin', Part 1
  6:13
• 2
  (A) New World a Comin', Part 2
  6:13
• 3
  The Golden Cross
  5:11
• 4
  Are You Stickin'
  3:02
• 5
  Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  3:18
• 6
  Harlem Airshaft
  2:57
• 7
  Rockabye River
  2:49
• 8
  Main Stem
  2:49
• 9
  Ring Dem Bells
  2:58
• 10
  Perdido
  3:08
• 11
  New York City Blues
  3:10
• 12
  Boy Meets Horn
  2:59
• 13
  I Can't Give You Anything but Love
  2:08
• 14
  Sunny Side of the Street
  4:03
• 15
  Caravan
  2:48
• 16
  In a Sentimental Mood
  3:02
• 17
  Royal Garden Blues
  3:08
• 18
  The Mooche
  3:08
• 19
  Rockin' in Rhythm
  3:01
• 20
  Sultry Sunset
  4:06

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Release credits

• Al Sears
  tenor saxophone [16]
• Barney Bigard
  clarinet [17], tenor saxophone [17]
• Ben Webster
  tenor saxophone [17]
• Billy Strayhorn
  arranger [17], piano [17]
• Bob Haggart
  double bass [16]
• Claude Jones
  trombone [16]
• Duke Ellington
  piano [16]
• Fred Guy
  guitar [3.16, 1.17]
• Harry Carney
  alto saxophone [17], baritone saxophone [17], clarinet [17], reeds [16]
• Herb Jeffries
  vocal [17]
• Jimmy Blanton
  double bass [17]
• Jimmy Hamilton
  reeds [16]
• Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton
  trombone [1.17, 3.16]
• Johnny Hodges
  alto saxophone [3.16, 1.17], clarinet [17]
• Juan Tizol
  valve trombone [17]
• Lawrence Brown
  trombone [1.17, 3.16]
• Otto Hardwick
  alto saxophone [1.17, 3.16]
• Ray Nance
  trumpet [1.17, 3.16]
• Rex Stewart
  cornet [17], trumpet [16]
• Shelton "Scad" Hemphill
  trumpet [16]
• Sonny Greer
  drums (drum set) [3.16, 1.17]
• Taft Jordan
  trumpet [16]
• Wallace Jones
  trumpet [17]
• William “Cat” Anderson
  trumpet [16]
• Show all credits (24)

Issues

• 1
  1943-47 V-Disc Recordings

  3x CD
  20 April 1999