The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra
Compilation by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Released 2010
Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1Moon Over Dixie2:57
- 2It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)3:10
- 3Lazy Rhapsody3:15
- 4Blue Tune3:09
- 5Baby When You Ain’t There2:41
- 6St. Louis Blues4:27
- 7Creole Love Call4:06
- 8Rose Room3:00
- 9Blue Harlem2:51
- 10The Sheik of Araby2:56
- 11Swampy River2:56
- 12Fast and Furious2:48
- 13Best Wishes3:10
- 14Slippery Horn3:13
- 15Blue Ramble3:10
- 16Clouds in My Heart3:02
- 17Lazy Rhapsody (alternate take B)3:11
- 18Blue Tune (alternate take B)3:07
- 19St. Louis Blues (alternate take A)4:27
- 20Creole Love Call (alternate take B)4:08
- 21Best Wishes (alternate take A)3:08
- 22Blue Ramble (alternate take B)3:13
- 23Clouds in My Heart (alternate take A)2:59
- CD 2
- 1Blue Mood2:53
- 2Ducky Wucky3:02
- 3Jazz Cocktail3:09
- 4Lightnin’3:05
- 5Stars3:04
- 6Swing Low2:39
- 7I Must Have That Man! (alternate take A)2:59
- 8Baby! (alternate take A)3:06
- 9Any Time, Any Day, Any Where2:49
- 10Delta Bound2:52
- 11Blue Mood (alternate take C)2:51
- 12Blue Mood (alternate take B)2:51
- 13Ducky Wucky (alternate take B)3:00
- 14Jazz Cocktail (alternate take B)3:12
- 15Lightnin’ (alternate take B)3:08
- 16Stars (alternate take B)3:03
- 17Swing Low (alternate take B)2:40
- 18I Must Have That Man! (alternate take B)3:06
- 19Baby! (alternate take B)3:07
- 20Any Time, Any Day, Any Where (alternate take B)2:51
- 21Delta Bound (alternate take B)2:57
- CD 3
- 1Diga Diga Do3:04
- 2I Can’t Give You Anything But Love3:05
- 3Porgy3:10
- 4I Must Have That Man! (master take C)3:04
- 5Baby! (master take C)3:05
- 6Eerie Moan3:08
- 7Merry-Go-Round (matrix W265049-3)2:50
- 8Sophisticated Lady3:40
- 9I’ve Got the World on a String3:21
- 10Down a Carolina Lane3:06
- 11Diga Diga Do (alternate take B)3:05
- 12I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (alternate take B)3:08
- 13Porgy (alternate take C)3:16
- 14Porgy (alternate take B)3:09
- 15I Must Have That Man! (alternate take D)3:11
- 16Baby! (alternate take D)3:00
- 17Eerie Moan (alternate take B)3:08
- 18Merry-Go-Round (matrix W265049 alternate take 2)2:52
- 19Sophisticated Lady (alternate take 1)3:38
- CD 4
- 1Slippery Horn3:02
- 2Blackbird Medley, Part 1: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Doin’ the New Low Down / I Must Have That Man! / Baby!3:02
- 3Blackbird Medley, Part 2: Dixie / Diga Diga Do / Porgy / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love3:00
- 4Drop Me Off in Harlem2:58
- 5Happy as the Day Is Long2:39
- 6Raisin’ the Rent2:50
- 7Get Yourself a New Broom (And Sweep the Blues Away)2:35
- 8Bundle of Blues3:09
- 9Sophisticated Lady3:12
- 10Stormy Weather3:01
- 11I’m Satisfied3:03
- 12Jive Stomp2:45
- 13Harlem Speaks3:06
- 14In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree3:09
- 15Solitude3:10
- 16Saddest Tale3:16
- 17Moonglow3:04
- 18Sump’n ’Bout Rhythm2:36
- 19Slippery Horn (alternate take B)3:02
- 20Blackbird Medley, Part 1: I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Doin’ the New Low Down / I Must Have That Man! / Baby! (alternate take B)3:03
- 21Blackbird Medley, Part 2: Dixie / Diga Diga Do / Porgy / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (alternate take C)3:06
- 22Blackbird Medley, Part 2: Dixie / Diga Diga Do / Porgy / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love (alternate take B)3:06
- 23Drop Me Off in Harlem (alternate take B)2:39
- 24Bundle of Blues (alternate take B)3:07
- 25Jive Stomp (alternate take B)2:28
- CD 5
- 1Admiration (matrix C883)2:40
- 2Farewell Blues2:28
- 3Let’s Have a Jubilee2:55
- 4Porto Rican Chaos (Moonlight Fiesta) (alternate take matrix C886-2)2:59
- 5Margie2:57
- 6Porto Rican Chaos (Moonlight Fiesta) (master take B16974-1)2:51
- 7In a Sentimental Mood3:13
- 8Showboat Shuffle2:59
- 9Merry-Go-Round (matrix B17408)2:55
- 10Admiration (matrix B17409)2:51
- 11Cotton3:05
- 12Truckin’3:00
- 13Accent on Youth3:06
- 14Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 13:23
- 15Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 23:14
- 16Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 33:15
- 17Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 43:13
- 18I Don’t Know Why I Love You So3:05
- 19Dinah Lou2:28
- 20Isn’t Love the Strangest Thing?3:10
- 21(There Is) No Greater Love3:10
- 22Clarinet Lament3:12
- 23Echoes of Harlem3:04
- 24Porto Rican Chaos (Moonlight Fiesta) (alternate take matrix B16974-2)2:46
- 25I Don’t Know Why I Love You So (alternate take 2)3:05
- 26Dinah Lou (alternate take 3)2:29
- CD 6
- 1Love Is Like a Cigarette3:04
- 2Kissin’ My Baby Good-Night3:19
- 3Oh, Babe! Maybe Someday2:51
- 4Shoe Shine Boy3:13
- 5It Was a Sad Night in Harlem3:05
- 6Trumpet in Spades3:08
- 7Yearning for Love2:55
- 8In a Jam2:58
- 9Exposition Swing3:12
- 10Uptown Downbeat (Blackout)3:25
- 11Scattin’ at the Cotton Club (Scattin’ at the Kit Kat)3:15
- 12Black Butterfly3:08
- 13The New Birmingham Breakdown2:48
- 14Scattin’ at the Kit Kat (Scattin’ at the Cotton Club)2:44
- 15I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter2:34
- 16The New East St. Louis Toodle-O2:59
- 17Exposition Swing (alternate take 2)3:13
- 18Black Butterfly (alternate take 2)3:12
- 19The New Birmingham Breakdown (alternate take 2)2:47
- 20Scattin’ at the Kit Kat (Scattin’ at the Cotton Club) (alternate take 2)2:47
- 21I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter (alternate take 2)2:35
- 22The New East St. Louis Toodle-O (alternate take 2)2:57
- CD 7
- 1There’s a Lull in My Life2:59
- 2It’s Swell of You2:44
- 3You Can’t Run Away From Love Tonight2:38
- 4Azure3:02
- 5The Lady Who Couldn’t Be Kissed2:43
- 6Old Plantation2:51
- 7Caravan2:40
- 8Azure3:13
- 9All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm (matrix M519)2:43
- 10All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm (matrix M520)2:26
- 11Alabamy Home2:42
- 12Chatter-Box (Jumpy)2:45
- 13Jubilesta2:53
- 14There’s a Lull in My Life (alternate take 2)2:56
- 15It’s Swell of You (alternate take 2)2:47
- 16You Can’t Run Away From Love Tonight (alternate take 2)2:37
- 17Azure (alternate take 2)2:58
- 18Old Plantation (alternate take 2)2:55
- 19All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm (matrix M519 alternate take 2)2:45
- 20All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm (matrix M520 alternate take 2)2:24
- 21Alabamy Home (alternate take 2)2:43
- CD 8
- 1Diminuendo in Blue2:46
- 2Crescendo in Blue3:16
- 3Harmony in Harlem3:08
- 4Dusk on the Desert3:06
- 5Stepping Into Swing Society3:07
- 6Prologue to Black and Tan Fantasy2:36
- 7The New Black and Tan Fantasy2:43
- 8Riding on a Blue Note2:49
- 9Lost in Meditation2:56
- 10The Gal From Joe’s2:58
- 11If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?)2:55
- 12Skrontch (Scrounch)2:44
- 13I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart3:08
- 14Braggin’ in Brass2:45
- 15Carnival in Caroline2:29
- 16Diminuendo in Blue (alternate take 2)2:39
- 17Crescendo in Blue (alternate take 2)3:14
- 18Harmony in Harlem (alternate take X)3:09
- 19Harmony in Harlem (alternate take 1)3:00
- 20Dusk on the Desert (alternate take 1)3:15
- 21Riding on a Blue Note (alternate take 2)2:51
- 22The Gal From Joe’s (alternate take 2)3:10
- 23If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?) (alternate take 1)2:54
- 24Skrontch (Scrounch) (alternate take 1)2:43
- 25I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (alternate take 1)3:11
- 26Braggin’ in Brass (alternate take 2)2:45
- CD 9
- 1Swingtime in Honolulu2:55
- 2I’m Slappin’ Seventh Avenue (With the Sole of My Shoe)2:38
- 3Dinah’s in a Jam2:52
- 4When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (All the Little Birdies Go Tweet-Tweet-Tweet)2:40
- 5You Gave Me the Gate (And I’m Swingin’)2:23
- 6Rose of the Rio Grande3:01
- 7Pyramid2:57
- 8The Stevedore’s Serenade2:48
- 9La De Doody Doo2:28
- 10Watermelon Man2:37
- 11(A) Gypsy Without a Song2:58
- 12A Blues Serenade2:23
- 13Love in Swingtime2:36
- 14Please Forgive Me3:01
- 15Lambeth Walk2:28
- 16Prelude to a Kiss3:00
- 17Hip Chic2:56
- 18Buffet Flat2:27
- 19Twits and Twerps (Boy Meets Horn) (matrix M898-1)2:44
- 20Mighty Like the Blues2:39
- 21Rose of the Rio Grande (alternate take 2)2:59
- 22Pyramid (alternate take 2)2:53
- 23Prelude to a Kiss (alternate take 2)2:58
- 24Twits and Twerps (Boy Meets Horn) (matrix M898-2)2:46
- 25Mighty Like the Blues (alternate take 1)2:37
- CD 10
- 1Jazz Potpourri2:58
- 2T.T. on Toast (Lady in Doubt)2:51
- 3Battle of Swing2:59
- 4Old King Dooji2:33
- 5Boy Meets Horn (Twits and Twerps)3:02
- 6Slap Happy2:47
- 7Pussy Willow2:43
- 8Subtle Lament3:03
- 9Lady in Blue2:55
- 10Smorgasbord and Schnapps2:41
- 11Portrait of the Lion2:29
- 12(I Want) Something to Live For2:53
- 13Solid Old Man2:41
- 14T.T. on Toast (Lady in Doubt) (alternate take 2)2:50
- 15Battle of Swing (alternate take 1)2:57
- 16Slap Happy (alternate take 2)2:47
- 17Subtle Lament (alternate take X)3:17
- 18Lady in Blue (alternate take X)3:14
- 19Portrait of the Lion (alternate take 2)2:34
- CD 11
- 1Cotton Club Stomp2:53
- 2Doin’ the Voom Voom2:42
- 3Way Low3:30
- 4Serenade to Sweden3:23
- 5In a Mizz3:09
- 6I’m Checkin’ Out - Go’om Bye2:29
- 7A Lonely Co-Ed3:19
- 8You Can Count on Me2:56
- 9Bouncing Buoyancy2:43
- 10The Sergeant Was Shy2:44
- 11Grievin’ (matrix WM 1064)3:38
- 12Little Posey2:41
- 13I Never Felt This Way Before3:00
- 14Grievin’ (matrix WM 1093)2:52
- 15Tootin’ Through the Roof2:55
- 16Weely3:00
- 17Your Love Has Faded2:55
- 18Killin’ Myself2:28
- 19Country Gal2:58
- 20Solitude3:00
- 21Stormy Weather2:35
- 22Mood Indigo2:45
- 23Sophisticated Lady2:51
- 24I Never Felt This Way Before (alternate take B)3:03
- 25Tootin’ Through the Roof (alternate take B)2:54
More by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Release credits
- vocal [3.4-5, 3.15-16, 2.7-8, 2.18-19]
- trumpet [1.1-23, 3.1-19, 6.1-22, 7.1-21, 8.1-10, 8.21-22, 2.1, 2.1-21, 4.1-25, 5.1-3, 5.5, 5.7-26]
- alto saxophone [8.5-7, 8.14, 10.1, 9.12-13, 9.17-18], clarinet [9.5-8, 9.12-13, 9.17-18, 1.12, 6.4, 10.1, 11.1, 11.23, 5.12-13, 5.16-17, 5.20-21, 8.5-7, 8.14-15], reeds [6.1-7, 6.9-22, 9.1-25, 3.4-10, 3.15-19, 5.1-3, 5.7-22, 5.25-26, 1.1-12, 1.14-20, 1.22-23, 4.1-4, 4.8-25, 10.1-10, 10.14-18, 2.1, 2.1-6, 2.11-17, 7.1-12, 7.14-21, 8.1-7, 8.11-20, 8.23-26, 11.1-25], tenor saxophone [1.11-13, 1.21, 8.8-10, 8.21-22, 10.11-13, 10.19]
- tenor saxophone [11.20-23, 5.11-13, 6.9-10, 6.17]
- arranger [3, 14]
- arranger [11], piano [11.16-18, 10.12]
- bass [4-7], double bass [11.1, 11.1-19, 11.24-25, 6.1-2, 6.2-4, 6.9-15, 6.17-21, 9.1-5, 9.5-6, 9.6-7, 9.7-8, 9.8-12, 9.12-13, 9.13-17, 9.17-18, 9.18-25, 8.5, 8.5-6, 8.6-7, 8.7-14, 8.14-15, 8.15, 8.21-26, 5.3-8, 5.8-20, 5.20-22, 5.25-26, 7.9-11, 7.19-21, 10.1, 10.1-19], tuba [5.3, 6.4-7]
- vocal [6, 19]
- trumpet [3, 8]
- trumpet [6.1-22, 9.1-25, 2.1, 2.1-21, 11.1-25, 4.1-25, 10.1-19, 3.1-19, 5.1-26, 1.1-23, 7.1-3, 7.7, 7.9-17, 7.19-21, 8.1-6, 8.6-26], vocal [3, 17]
- vocal [1, 11]
- membranophone [22], piano [9.1-6, 9.8-18, 9.20-21, 9.23, 9.25, 10.1-4, 10.6-11, 10.13-19, 6.1-22, 2.1, 2.1-21, 3.1-19, 4.1-25, 1.1-23, 5.1-26, 7.1-21, 8.1-25, 11.1-2, 11.4-15, 11.19-25], tom-tom [7]
- performing orchestra
- vocal [2-3, 12-14]
- drums (drum set) [8]
- banjo [4.1-4, 4.19-23, 2.3-4, 2.14-15, 1.1-23], guitar [6.1-7, 6.9-22, 7.1-12, 7.14-21, 1.11-12, 2.1, 2.1-2, 2.5-13, 2.16-21, 11.1-25, 10.1-19, 9.4-25, 4.1-14, 4.19-25, 5.1-3, 5.7-22, 5.25-26, 3.1-12, 3.15-19, 8.1-7, 8.7, 8.11-20, 8.23-26]
- trumpet [7.12, 3.1-3, 3.7-14, 3.18-19, 4.1-25, 9.1-3, 5.3, 1.1-23, 8.1-26, 2.1, 2.1-21]
- trumpet [5-7, 14-15]
- alto saxophone [9.12-13, 9.17-18, 2.1-2, 2.11-13, 3.10, 1.9-13, 1.21, 8.5-7, 8.14, 10.1], baritone saxophone [6.4-7, 6.11-12, 6.18, 5.4-6, 8.5-7, 8.13-15, 8.25-26, 1.12, 10.1, 10.4-6, 10.11-13, 10.16, 10.19, 9.12-13, 9.17-18, 7.4-11, 7.17-21, 11.1-4, 11.17-19, 3.1-3, 3.11-14], clarinet [10.1, 9.12-13, 9.17-18, 1.12, 8.5-7, 8.14], reeds [11.1, 11.9-11, 11.20-23, 3.2-3, 7.12, 10.7-10, 10.17-18, 5.3, 5.8, 5.12-13, 5.16-17, 5.20-21, 6.1-4, 6.13-16, 6.19-22, 8.1-4, 8.6-7, 8.14-20, 4.1-4, 4.8-10, 4.13-23, 1.1-3, 1.6-8, 1.11-12, 1.17, 1.19-20, 2.1], saxophone [6.1-3, 6.9-10, 6.17, 2.3-10, 2.14-21, 10.1-3, 10.14-15, 7.1-3, 7.14-16, 11.5-8, 11.12-16, 11.24-25, 1.4-5, 1.14-16, 1.18, 1.22-23, 8.8-12, 8.21-24, 4.8-14, 4.24-25, 3.4-9, 3.15-19, 5.1-3, 5.7-22, 5.25-26, 9.1-25], vocal [15, 21]
- vocal [1, 11]
- double bass [8.5, 8.5-6, 8.6-7, 8.7-14, 8.14-15, 8.15, 8.21-26, 7.9-11, 7.19-21, 6.1, 6.1-2, 6.2-3, 6.3-4, 6.4-7, 6.9-12, 6.14, 6.17-18, 6.20, 5.3, 5.11-17, 5.20-21, 5.21-22], vocal [14, 20]
- trombone [13-15, 25-26]
- vocal [1, 11]
- vocal [11.5-8, 11.20-22, 3.9, 2.10, 2.21, 1.2, 6.1-5, 6.15, 6.21, 7.1-3, 7.6, 7.14-16, 7.18, 5.3, 5.11-12, 5.19-20, 5.26, 4.5-6, 4.11, 8.11-12, 8.15, 8.23-24, 9.4-6, 9.21]
- double bass [20-23, 23]
- trombone [2.1, 2.1-21, 7.1-21, 8.1-26, 10.1-19, 3.1-19, 9.1-25, 11.1-25, 1.1-23, 4.1-25, 5.1-4, 5.6-21, 5.23-26, 6.1-22]
- tenor saxophone [5-7]
- vocal [1, 11]
- alto saxophone [4.8-14, 4.24-25, 7.7-11, 7.19-21, 9.1-13, 9.17-22, 9.24-25, 1.1-5, 1.11-18, 1.21-23, 10.1-3, 10.11-15, 10.19, 8.5-15, 8.21-26, 11.17-23, 3.7-9, 3.18-19, 5.1-3, 5.7-13, 5.18-19, 5.25-26, 6.1-7, 6.11-12, 6.18], clarinet [8.5-7, 8.14, 9.12-13, 9.17-18, 1.12, 10.1], reeds [7.12, 10.4-10, 10.16-18, 2.1, 6.1-4, 6.13-16, 6.19-22, 8.1-4, 8.6-7, 8.14-20, 1.6-8, 1.11-12, 1.19-20, 9.5-8, 3.10, 5.3, 5.8, 5.12-17, 5.20-21, 11.1, 11.9-11, 11.23, 4.1-4, 4.8-10, 4.13-14, 4.19-23], saxophone [3.1-6, 3.11, 3.13-17, 8.5-7, 9.12-18, 9.23, 2.1-21, 7.1-6, 7.14-18, 4.5-7, 4.15-18, 5.20-22, 1.9-10, 11.1-8, 11.12-16, 11.24-25, 6.9-10, 6.17], soprano saxophone [10.1, 8.5-7, 8.14, 1.12, 5.4-6, 9.8-13, 9.17-18]
- valve trombone [3.1-19, 4.1-25, 8.1-12, 8.14-24, 2.1, 2.1-21, 5.1-26, 1.1-23, 6.1-22, 11.1-25, 9.1-25, 7.1-21, 10.1-10, 10.14-18]
- trombone [9.1-25, 8.1-6, 8.6-26, 11.1-25, 3.1-11, 3.13-19, 2.1, 2.1-21, 6.1-22, 5.1-4, 5.6-10, 5.12-13, 5.16-26, 10.1-19, 7.1-21, 1.9-16, 1.21-23, 4.1-25]
- alto saxophone [9.1-6, 9.8-18, 9.21, 9.23, 3.1-3, 3.7-9, 3.11-14, 3.18-19, 1.9-16, 1.21-23, 10.1, 4.1-25, 2.5-10, 2.16-21, 6.4-7, 6.9-12, 6.17-18, 7.1-11, 7.14-21, 8.5-7, 8.7, 8.11-15, 8.23-26, 11.5-8, 11.12-19, 11.24-25, 5.4-6, 5.11-13, 5.18-19, 5.25-26], baritone saxophone [12], bass saxophone [3.10, 4.11-14, 4.25], reeds [5.3, 5.8, 5.12-17, 5.20-21, 11.9-11, 11.20-23, 8.1-4, 8.6-7, 8.14-20, 7.12, 4.8-10, 4.13-14, 10.4-10, 10.16-18], saxophone [2.1, 2.3-4, 2.14-15, 6.4, 6.13-16, 6.19-22, 10.1-3, 10.11-15, 10.19, 11.1-4, 11.23, 5.1-3, 5.7, 5.9-10, 5.20-22, 8.8-10, 8.21-22, 1.11-12, 9.19-20, 9.24-25]
- alto saxophone [1-3]
- alto saxophone [1-3]
- vocal [5, 16]
- cornet [11.1-25, 6.1-7, 6.9-22, 5.1-22, 5.25-26, 8.1-10, 8.13-22, 8.25-26, 9.1-25, 7.1-3, 7.5-12, 7.14-16, 7.18-21, 10.1-19], vocal [15, 21]
- vocal [12-14]
- drums (drum set) [6.1-22, 10.1-19, 5.1-26, 8.1-26, 3.1-19, 7.1-21, 1.1-23, 11.1-25, 2.1, 2.1-21, 4.1-25, 9.1-25], vocal [1]
- vocal [1, 11]
- trumpet [11.1-25, 10.1-19, 8.5-7, 8.11-15, 8.23-26, 9.1-25]
- double bass [5.1-6, 4.1-9, 4.9-10, 4.10-14, 4.14-25, 1.1-11, 1.11-12, 1.12-23, 3.1-2, 3.2-3, 3.3-19, 2.1, 2.1-21]





