Essential Jazz

Tracklist

• 1
  Take the "A" Train
  2:57
• 2
  Sophisticated Lady
  3:00
• 3
  Perdido
  4:32
• 4
  I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
  3:39
• 5
  In a Mellow Tone
  2:43
• 6
  Mood Indigo
  3:48
• 7
  Happy Go Lucky Local
  3:01
• 8
  It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  2:51
• 9
  Things Ain't What They Used to Be
  2:58
• 10
  Caravan
  3:11
• 11
  I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
  2:41
• 12
  Dancers in Love
  2:21
• 13
  Something to Live For
  2:45
• 14
  Solitude
  2:58
• 15
  Black Beauty
  3:15
• 16
  Black and Tan Fantasy
  6:25
• 17
  U.M.M.G.
  4:28

More by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

Duke Ellington's Finest Hour

Duke Ellington's Finest Hour 2002

The Best of Early Ellington

The Best of Early Ellington 1996

The Intimacy of the Blues

The Intimacy of the Blues 1991

JazzTime

JazzTime 1989

Latin American Suite

Latin American Suite 1972

…and His Mother Called Him Bill

…and His Mother Called Him Bill 1968

Release credits

• Andrew “Fats” Ford
  trumpet [9, 17]
• Bobby Rosengarden
  percussion [17]
• Booty Wood
  trombone [5]
• Britt Woodman
  trombone [2, 5, 9, 17]
• Chauncey Morehouse
  percussion [17]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [9, 17]
• Cootie Williams
  trumpet [2]
• Dizzy Gillespie
  guest [17], trumpet [17]
• Duke Ellington
  piano [2, 5, 9, 17]
• Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [2]
• Harold “Shorty” Baker
  trumpet [9, 17]
• Harry Carney
  baritone saxophone [2, 5, 9, 17]
• Irving Townsend
  producer [17]
• James Johnson
  membranophone [9]
• Jimmy Hamilton
  clarinet [2, 5, 9], tenor saxophone [2, 5, 9, 17]
• Jimmy Johnson
  drums (drum set) [5], membranophone [5]
• Jimmy Woode
  bass [5], double bass [2, 9, 17]
• John Sanders
  trombone [17], valve trombone [2, 9]
• Johnny Hodges
  alto saxophone [2, 5, 9, 17]
• Larry Keyes
  remixer [17]
• Matthew Gee
  trombone [5]
• Paul Gonsalves
  tenor saxophone [2, 5, 9, 17]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [2, 9, 17]
• Ray Nance
  trumpet [2, 5, 9, 17]
• Rosemary Clooney
  lead vocals [2]
• Russell Procope
  alto saxophone [2, 5, 9, 17], clarinet [2, 5, 9]
• Sam Woodyard
  drums (drum set) [2, 17], membranophone [9]
• William “Cat” Anderson
  trumpet [2, 9, 17]
• Willie Cook
  trumpet [2, 9]
• Show all credits (29)

Issues

• 

  T
  The Essential Duke Ellington

  CD
  1990
• 

  E
  Essentiel Jazz: Duke Ellington

  CD
  1994
• E
  Essential Jazz

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