The Classic Duke Ellington

Tracklist

• CD 1: CD1
• 1
  Rockin' In Rhythm
  3:15
• 2
  I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
  3:02
• 3
  Do Nothing till You Hear From Me
  3:19
• 4
  Tonight I Shall Sleep
  2:59
• 5
  I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
  3:19
• 6
  Misty Morning
  3:20
• 7
  Jump For Joy
  2:54
• 8
  East St.Louis Toodle-Oo
  3:03
• 9
  Ring Dem Bells
  2:53
• 10
  The Mood to be Wooed
  3:00
• 11
  Perdido
  3:10
• 12
  Black and Tan Fantasy
  3:20
• 13
  Solitude
  3:16
• 14
  Main Stem
  2:50
• 15
  Chelsea Bridge
  2:54
• 16
  Three Little Words
  3:08
• 17
  Jack the Bear
  3:17
• 18
  Transblucency
  3:57
• 19
  Cotton Club Stomp (Wall Street Wail)
  3:01
• 20
  Mood Indigo
  2:47
• 21
  Drop Me Off in Harlem
  3:00
• 22
  The Mooche
  3:14
• 23
  Moonglow
  3:08
• CD 2: CD2
• 1
  Take the "A" Train
  2:52
• 2
  Creole Love Call
  4:09
• 3
  Sophisticated Lady
  3:38
• 4
  Harlem Air Shaft
  2:59
• 5
  All Too Soon
  3:30
• 6
  In a Sentimental Mood
  3:18
• 7
  Sepia Panorama
  3:22
• 8
  Echoes of Harlem (Cootie's Concerto)
  3:02
• 9
  The Gal from Joe's
  2:56
• 10
  Bojangles (A Portrait of Bill Robinson)
  2:51
• 11
  Prelude to a Kiss
  3:03
• 12
  Black Beauty
  2:50
• 13
  Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Time's a Wastin)
  3:05
• 14
  I'm Beginning to See the Light
  3:16
• 15
  Ko Ko
  2:42
• 16
  It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  3:01
• 17
  Caravan
  2:48
• 18
  The Black, Brown and Beige Suite
  18:19

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

• Arthur Whetsel
  trumpet [22]
• Baby Cox
  vocal [22]
• Barney Bigard
  clarinet [22], tenor saxophone [22]
• Bubber Miley
  trumpet [22]
• Duke Ellington
  arranger [22], piano [22]
• Fred Guy
  banjo [22]
• Harry Carney
  alto saxophone [22], baritone saxophone [22], clarinet [22]
• Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton
  trombone [22]
• Johnny Hodges
  alto saxophone [22], clarinet [22], soprano saxophone [22]
• Lonnie Johnson
  guitar [22]
• Sonny Greer
  drums (drum set) [22]
• Wellman Braud
  double bass [22]

Issues

• T
  The Classic Duke Ellington

  2x CD
  1997
• 

  I
  It Don't Mean a Thing

  2x CD (Not the 1973 album by Duke Ellington & Teresa Brewer.)
  2003