The Duke - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

The Duke

Compilation by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

Released 1999

Tracklist

CD 1: Hop Head (1924–1928) (CD 1)
1
Choo Choo (Gotta Hurry Home)
3:13
2
Rainy Nights
3:24
3
I’m Gonna Hang Around My Sugar
3:01
4
Trombone Blues
2:59
5
Georgia Grind
2:42
6
Parlor Social Stomp
3:09
7
(You’ve Got Those) Wanna‐Go‐Back‐Again‐Blues
3:19
8
If You Can’t Hold the Man You Love
3:20
9
Animal Crackers
3:07
10
Li’l Farina
3:00
11
East St. Louis Toodle‐Oo
2:51
12
Birmingham Breakdown
2:43
13
Immigration Blues
2:57
14
The Creeper
2:47
15
New‐Orleans Low‐Down
2:59
16
Song of the Cotton Field
3:00
17
Birmingham Breakdown
2:38
18
East St. Louis Toodle‐Oo
2:59
19
East St. Louis Toodle‐Oo
3:04
20
Hop Head
2:54
CD 2: Hop Head (1924–1928) (CD 2)
1
Down in Our Alley Blues
3:01
2
Black and Tan Fantasy
3:18
3
Soliloquy
3:05
4
Washington Wobble
2:52
5
Creole Love Call
3:12
6
The Blues I Love to Sing
3:04
7
Black and Tan Fantasy
3:08
8
Washington Wobble
2:59
9
What Can a Poor Fellow Do
3:09
10
Black and Tan Fantasy
3:15
11
Chicago Stomp Down
2:44
12
Harlem River Quiver (Brown Berries)
2:43
13
East St. Louis Toodle‐Oo
3:30
14
Blue Bubbles
3:09
15
Red Hot Band
2:48
16
Doing the Frog
3:13
17
Sweet Mama (Papa’s Gettin’ Mad)
2:52
18
Stack O’Lee Blues
2:48
19
Bugle Call Rag
2:37
20
Take It Easy
3:08
CD 3: Jubilee Stomp (1928) (CD 1)
1
Jubilee Stomp
2:42
2
Harlem Twist (East St. Louis Toodle‐Oo)
3:15
3
Jubilee Stomp
2:35
4
Take It Easy
2:37
5
Take It Easy
2:36
6
Jubilee Stomp
2:43
7
Black Beauty (Firewater)
3:06
8
Black Beauty
2:50
9
Jubilee Stomp
2:33
10
Got Everything but You
2:57
11
Yellow Dog Blues
2:46
12
Tishomingo Blues
2:53
13
Dida Diga Doo
2:52
14
Doin’ the New Low‐Down
3:06
15
Black Beauty
3:01
16
Swampy River
2:50
17
The Mooche
3:13
18
Move Over
3:02
19
Hot and Bothered
3:15
CD 4: Jubilee Stomp (1928) (CD 2)
1
The Mooche
2:48
2
Hot and Bothered
2:45
3
Move Over
2:54
4
The Mooche
3:09
5
Louisiana
3:00
6
Awful Sad
3:15
7
The Mooche
3:31
8
Santa Claus Bring My Man Back
2:57
9
I Done Caught the Blues
2:54
10
I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
3:04
11
No, Papa, No (instrumental)
3:20
12
No, Papa, No (vocal)
3:19
13
Bandanna Babies
3:18
14
Diga Diga Doo
2:53
15
I Must Have That Man
3:23
16
The Blues With a Feelin’
3:14
17
Goin’ to Town
2:58
18
Misty Mornin’
3:19
19
Hottentot
2:31
20
Misty Mornin’
2:45
CD 5: High Life (1928–1929) (CD 1)
1
St. Louis Blues
4:12
2
Doin’ the Voom Voom
3:11
3
Tiger Rag, Part 1
2:52
4
Tiger Rag, Part 2
2:52
5
Flaming Youth
3:17
6
Saturday Night Function
3:04
7
High Life
3:07
8
Doin’ the Voom Voom
3:08
9
Japanese Dream
3:30
10
Harlemania
2:54
11
Rent Party Blues
3:27
12
Paducah
2:31
13
Harlem Flat Blues
3:07
14
The Dicty Glide
3:08
15
Hot Feet
2:36
16
Sloppy Joe
3:13
17
Stevedore Stomp
2:45
18
Saratoga Swing
2:56
19
Who Said ‘’It’s Tight Like That’’?
2:55
20
He Just Don’t Appeal to Me
2:52
CD 6: High Life (1928–1929) (CD 2)
1
I Must Have That Man
3:21
2
Freeze and Melt
2:50
3
Mississippi Moan
3:22
4
A Nite at the Cotton Club, Part I
3:50
5
A Nite at the Cotton Club, Part II
4:31
6
Cotton Club Stomp
2:54
7
Misty Mornin’
3:07
8
Arabian Lover
2:46
9
Saratoga Swing
2:45
10
That Rhythmn Man
2:44
11
Beggars Blues
3:20
12
Saturday Night Function
3:26
13
Black and Blue
3:23
14
Jungle Jamboree
2:42
15
Jungle Jamboree
3:02
16
Snake Hip Dance
2:48
17
Doin’ the Voom Voom
2:47
18
Flaming Youth
2:22
19
Saturday Night Function
3:03
20
Jolly Wog
3:01
CD 7: The Duke Steps Out (1929–1930) (CD 1)
1
Jazz Convulsions
2:49
2
Mississippi
3:25
3
The Duke Steps Out
3:17
4
Haunted Nights
3:15
5
Swanee Shuffles
3:19
6
Six or Seven Times
3:02
7
Goin’ Nuts
2:33
8
Oklahoma Stomp
2:48
9
Breakfast Dance
3:01
10
Jazz Lips
3:11
11
March of the Hoodlums
2:54
12
Lazy Duke
3:08
13
Blues of the Vagabond
3:15
14
Syncopated Shuffle
2:46
15
Sweet Mama
3:07
16
Wallstreet Wail
2:58
17
Cincinatti Daddy
3:18
18
St. James Infirmary
3:00
19
When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
2:43
20
Rent Party Blues
3:06
CD 8: The Duke Steps Out (1929–1930) (CD 2)
1
Jungle Blues
3:02
2
Admiration
3:14
3
Maori (A Samoan Dance)
3:14
4
When You’re Smiling
3:09
5
Sing, You Sinners
2:37
6
St. James Infirmary
2:38
7
The Mooche
3:24
8
Ragamuffin Romeo
3:18
9
East St. Louis Toodle‐Oo
3:15
10
Double Check Stomp
2:55
11
My Gal Is Good for Nothing but Love
3:00
12
I Was Made to Love You
3:01
13
Double Check Stomp
2:57
14
Accordion Joe
3:03
15
Cotton Club Stomp
2:53
16
Sweet Dreams of Love
3:23
17
Jungle Nights in Harlem
2:55
18
Sweet Jazz o’Mine
2:42
19
Shout ’em, Aunt Tillie
3:00
20
Sweet Mama
3:01
CD 9: Black and Tan Fantasy (1930–1931) (CD 1)
1
Hot and Bothered
2:54
2
Double Check Stomp
3:23
3
Black and Tan Fantasy
3:11
4
Ring Dem Bells
2:52
5
Old Man Blues
3:07
6
Ring Dem Bells
2:56
7
Old Man Blues
3:05
8
Three Little Words
3:06
9
Hittin’ the Bottle
2:56
10
That Lindy Hop
2:54
11
You’re Lucky to Me
2:56
12
Memories of You
3:14
13
Big House Blues
3:02
14
Rocky Mountain Blues
3:10
15
Runnin’ Wild
2:43
16
Dream Blues (Mood Indigo)
2:53
17
Home Again Blues
2:56
18
Wang‐Wang Blues
3:02
19
Ring Dem Bells
2:48
20
Three Little Words
3:10
CD 10: Black and Tan Fantasy (1930–1931) (CD 2)
1
Old Man Blues
3:06
2
Sweet Chariot
2:52
3
Mood Indigo
3:08
4
I Can’t Realize You Love Me
3:20
5
I’m So in Love With You
2:57
6
Rockin’ in Rhythm
3:14
7
Nine Little Miles From Ten‐Ten‐Tennessee
3:24
8
I’m So in Love With You
3:34
9
What Good Am I Without You
2:54
10
Blue Again
3:12
11
When a Black Man’s Blue
3:03
12
What Good Am I Without You
2:48
13
When a Black Man’s Blue
2:58
14
Mood Indigo
3:04
15
Them There Eyes
3:07
16
Rockin’ Chair
3:10
17
I’m So in Love With You
2:57
18
Rockin’ Chair
3:12
19
Rockin’ in Rhythm
3:00
20
Twelfth Street Rag
2:55
CD 11: Creole Rhapsody (1931–1932) (CD 1)
1
Twelfth Street Rag
2:57
2
Rockin’ in Rhythm
2:56
3
The River and Me
3:14
4
Keep a Song in Your Soul
2:39
5
Sam and Delilah
3:28
6
The Peanut Vendor
3:15
7
Creole Rhapsody, Part I
3:09
8
Creole Rhapsody, Part II
3:20
9
Is That Religion?
2:21
10
Creole Rhapsody, Part I
4:03
11
Creole Rhapsody, Part II
4:22
12
Limehouse Blues
3:08
13
Echoes of the Jungle
3:27
14
It’s Glory
3:09
15
The Mystery Song
3:11
16
Moon Over Dixie
2:58
17
It Don’t Mean a Thing
3:10
18
Lazy Rhapsody
3:16
19
Mood Indigo / Hot and Bothered / Creole Love Call
7:38
20
Blue Tune
3:08
CD 12: Creole Rhapsody (1931–1932) (CD 2)
1
Baby, When You Ain’t There
2:42
2
East St. Louis Toodle‐Oo / Lots o’ Fingers / Black and Tan Fantasy
7:33
3
Dinah
2:52
4
Bugle Call Rag
3:04
5
St. Louis Blues
4:32
6
Creole Love Call
4:10
7
Rose Room
3:01
8
Blue Harlem
2:53
9
The Sheik of Araby
3:00
10
Swampy River
2:56
11
Fast and Furious
2:49
12
Best Wishes
3:12
13
Slippery Horn
3:15
14
Blue Ramble
3:13
15
Clouds in My Heart
3:04
16
Blue Mood
2:52
17
Ducky Wucky
3:04
18
Jazz Cocktail
3:12
19
Lightnin’
3:08
20
Maori
3:22
CD 13: Sophisticated Lady (1932–1934) (CD 1)
1
Stars
3:06
2
Swing Low
2:42
3
Baby!
3:06
4
Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
2:52
5
Delta Bound
2:54
6
Diga Diga Doo
3:05
7
I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
3:05
8
Porgy
3:09
9
I Must Have That Man
3:02
10
Baby!
3:09
11
Eerie Moan
3:09
12
Merry‐Go‐Round
2:49
13
Sophisticated Lady
3:38
14
I’ve Got the World on a String
3:17
15
Down a Carolina Lane
3:02
16
Slippery Horn
3:00
17
Blackbird Medley, Part I
3:03
18
Blackbird Medley, Part II
3:00
19
Drop Me Off at Harlem
2:57
20
Happy as the Day Is Long
2:37
CD 14: Sophisticated Lady (1932–1934) (CD 2)
1
Raisin’ the Rent
2:50
2
Get Yourself a New Broom (And Sweep the Blues Away)
2:35
3
Bundle of Blues
3:10
4
Sophisticated Lady
3:13
5
Stormy Weather
3:02
6
Hyde Park
2:55
7
Harlem Speaks
3:05
8
Ain’t Misbehavin’
2:44
9
Chicago
2:45
10
A Souvenir of Duke Ellington
2:26
11
I’m Satisified
3:04
12
Jive Stomp
2:45
13
Harlem Speaks
3:10
14
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
3:13
15
Rude Interlude
3:10
16
Dallas Doings
2:54
17
Dear Old Southland
3:32
18
Daybreak Express
2:54
19
Delta Serenade
3:16
20
Stompy Jones
3:01
CD 15: Solitude (1934–1936) (CD 1)
1
Solitude
3:25
2
Blue Feeling
3:12
3
Ebony Rhapsody
3:25
4
Cocktails for Two
3:26
5
Live and Love Tonight
3:19
6
I Met My Waterloo
3:30
7
My Old Flame
3:15
8
Troubled Waters
3:27
9
My Old Flame
3:20
10
Solitude
3:11
11
Saddest Tale
3:18
12
Moon Glow
3:06
13
Sump ’n’ Bout Rhythm
2:38
14
Admiration
2:36
15
Farewell Blues
2:24
16
Let’s Have a Jubilee
2:51
17
Porto Rican Chaos
2:39
18
Margie
2:58
19
Moonlight Fiesta (Porto Rican Chaos)
2:51
20
Tough Truckin’
3:03
CD 16: Solitude (1934–1936) (CD 2)
1
Indigo Echoes
2:48
2
In a Sentimental Mood
3:17
3
Showboat Shuffle
3:02
4
Merry‐Go‐Round
2:59
5
Admiration
2:55
6
Cotton
3:06
7
Truckin’
2:58
8
Accent on Youth
3:04
9
Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 1
3:20
10
Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 2
3:11
11
Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 3
3:14
12
Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 4
3:12
13
I Don’t Know Why I Love You So
3:06
14
Dinah Lou
2:24
15
Isn’t Love the Strangest Thing
3:08
16
(There Is) No Greater Love
3:08
17
Clarinet Lament (Barny’s Concerto)
3:10
18
Echoes of Harlem (Cootie’s Concerto)
3:02
19
Love Is Like a Cigarette
3:03
20
Kissin’ My Baby Good‐Night
3:17
CD 17: Scattin’ at the Cotton Club (1936–1937) (CD 1)
1
Oh, Babe! Maybe Someday
2:51
2
Shoe Shine Boy
3:14
3
It Was a Sad Night in Harlem
3:06
4
Trumpet’s in Spades (Rex’s Concerto)
3:11
5
Yearning for Love
2:56
6
In a Jam
2:59
7
Exposition Swing
3:12
8
Uptown Downbeat (Black Out)
3:23
9
Rexatious
2:46
10
Lazy Man’s Shuffle
2:59
11
Clouds in My Heart
2:59
12
Frolic Sam
3:01
13
Caravan
3:06
14
Stompy Jones
2:46
15
Scattin’ at the Cotton Club
3:19
16
Black Butterfly
3:05
17
Mood Indigo / Solitude
3:05
18
Sophisticated Lady / In a Sentimental Mood
3:04
19
The New Birmingham Breakdown
2:49
20
Scattin’ at the Kit Kat
2:43
CD 18: Scattin’ at the Cotton Club (1936–1937) (CD 2)
1
I Got to Be a Rug Cutter
2:35
2
The New East St. Louis Toodle‐Oo
3:01
3
I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me
2:51
4
Downtown Uproar
2:41
5
Digga Digga Doo
2:51
6
Blue Reverie
2:56
7
Whispering Tiger (Tiger Rag)
2:44
8
My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms
2:49
9
Did Anyone Ever Tell You?
3:00
10
Alabamy Home
3:02
11
Where Are You?
2:56
12
There’s a Lull in My Life
3:00
13
It’s Swell of You
2:44
14
You Can’t Run Away From Love Tonight
2:38
15
Azure
3:01
16
The Lady Who Couldn’t Be Kissed
2:43
17
The Old Plantation
2:52
18
Solace (Lament for a Lost Love)
2:44
19
Four and One Half Street
2:36
20
Demi‐Tasse (Each Day)
2:36
CD 19: Jazz a la Carte (1937–1938) (CD 1)
1
Jazz a la Carte
2:34
2
Caravan
2:40
3
Azure
3:13
4
Foolin’ Myself
2:59
5
A Sailboat in the Moonlight
3:05
6
You’ll Never Go to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)
2:30
7
Peckin’
3:09
8
All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm (instrumental)
2:42
9
All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm (vocal)
2:26
10
Alabamy Home
2:42
11
Get It Southern Style
2:43
12
Moonlight Fiesta
2:48
13
Sponge Cake and Spinach
2:34
14
If You’re Ever in My Arms Again
2:54
15
The Back Room Romp
2:49
16
Swing Baby Swing (Love in My Heart)
2:34
17
Sugar Hill Shim Sham
2:37
18
Tea and Trumpets
2:33
19
Chatterbox
2:46
20
Jubilesta
2:54
CD 20: Jazz a la Carte (1937–1938) (CD 2)
1
Diminuendo in Blue
2:46
2
Crescendo in Blue
3:19
3
Harmony in Harlem
3:08
4
Dusk in the Desert
3:06
5
Jubilesta
2:48
6
Watching
2:56
7
Pigeons and Peppers
2:55
8
I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
2:37
9
Stepping Into Swing Society
3:08
10
Prolog to Black and Tan Fantasy
2:35
11
The New Black and Tan Fantasy
2:42
12
Drummer’s Delight
2:27
13
If I Thought You Cared
3:01
14
Have a Heart (Lost in Meditation)
2:44
15
My Day
3:05
16
Silvery Moon and Golden Sands
3:16
17
Echoes of Harlem
3:17
18
Riding on a Blue Note
2:50
19
Lost in Meditation
2:57
20
The Gal From Joe’s
2:54
CD 21: Rendezvous With Rhythm (1938) (CD 1)
1
If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do)
2:55
2
Scrounch
2:43
3
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
3:07
4
Braggin’ in Brass
2:45
5
Carnival in Caroline
2:27
6
Jeep’s Blues
2:56
7
If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do)
2:58
8
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
3:03
9
Rendezvous With Rhythmn
3:02
10
A Lesson in C
2:35
11
Swingtime in Honolulu
2:45
12
Carnival in Caroline
2:24
13
Ol’ Man River
2:50
14
Swingtime in Honolulu
2:51
15
I’m Slappin’ Seventh Avenue (With the Sole of My Shoe)
2:35
16
Dinah’s in a Jam
2:51
17
You Gave Me the Gate (And I’m Swingin’)
2:22
18
Rose of the Rio Grande
3:01
19
Pyramid
2:55
20
When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (All the Little Birdies Go Tweet‐Tweet‐Tweet)
2:37
CD 22: Rendezvous With Rhythm (1938) (CD 2)
1
Watermelon Man
2:35
2
A Gypsy Without a Song
2:59
3
The Stevedore’s Serenade
2:46
4
La Dee Doody Doo
2:27
5
You Walked Out of the Picture
2:50
6
Pyramid
2:52
7
Empty Ballroom Blues
2:31
8
Lost in Meditation
2:46
9
A Blues Serenade
2:46
10
Love in Swingtime
2:54
11
Swingin’ in the Dell
2:40
12
Jitterbug’s Lullaby
3:02
13
Chasin’ Chippies
3:01
14
Blue Is the Evening
3:11
15
Sharpie
2:45
16
Swing Pan Alley
2:33
17
A Blues Serenade
2:20
18
Love in Swingtime
2:36
19
Please Forgive Me
3:02
20
Lambeth Walk
2:26
CD 23: Prelude to a Kiss (1938–1939) (CD 1)
1
Prelude to a Kiss
3:01
2
Hip Chic
2:56
3
Buffet Flat
2:28
4
Prelude to a Kiss
2:42
5
There’s Something About an Old Love
2:43
6
The Jeep Is Jumpin’
2:28
7
Krum Elbow Blues
2:37
8
Twits and Twerps
2:36
9
Mighty Like the Blues
2:37
10
Jazz Potpourri
2:58
11
T.T. on Toast
2:50
12
Battle of Swing
2:58
13
I’m in Another World
3:04
14
Hodge Podge
2:37
15
Dancing on the Stars
2:56
16
Wanderlust
3:02
17
Delta Mood
2:46
18
The Boys From Harlem
2:17
19
Mobile Blues
2:31
20
Gal‐Avantin’
2:19
CD 24: Prelude to a Kiss (1938–1939) (CD 2)
1
Blue Light (Transblucency)
2:43
2
Old King Dooji
2:34
3
Boy Meets Horn
3:04
4
Slap Happy
2:45
5
Like a Ship in the Night
2:41
6
Mississippi Dream Boat
2:39
7
Swingin’ on the Campus
2:41
8
Dooji Wooji
2:59
9
Beautiful Romance
2:44
10
Boudoir Benny
2:50
11
Ain’t the Gravy Good?
3:08
12
She’s Gone
3:02
13
Just Good Fun
2:29
14
Informal Blues
2:42
15
San Juan Hill
2:39
16
I’ll Come Back for More
2:52
17
Lady in Blue
2:54
18
Smorgasbord and Schnapps
2:40
19
Savoy Strut
2:32
20
Rent Party Blues
2:39
CD 25: I’m Checkin’ Out, Goom Bye (1939) (CD 1)
1
Dance of the Goon
2:36
2
Good Gal Blues
2:59
3
Finesse
2:40
4
Portrait of the Lion
2:25
5
(I Want) Something to Live For
2:50
6
Solid Old Man
2:40
7
Kitchen Mechanic’s Day
2:31
8
My Heart Jumped Over the Mood
2:38
9
You Can Count on Me
3:17
10
Home Town Blues
2:40
11
Cotton Club Stomp
2:51
12
Doin’ the Voom Voom
2:41
13
Way Low
3:28
14
Serenade to Sweden
3:23
15
Utt‐Da‐Zay (The Tailor Song)
2:48
16
Chew Chew Chew (Chew Your Bubble Gum)
2:43
17
Barney Goin’ Easy
2:57
18
Just Another Dream
2:43
19
In a Mizz
3:07
20
I’m Checkin’ Out, Goom‐Bye
2:25
CD 26: I’m Checkin’ Out, Goom Bye (1939) (CD 2)
1
A Lonely Co‐Ed
3:17
2
You Can Count on Me
2:56
3
Night Song
2:47
4
Blues A‐Poppin’
2:52
5
Top and Bottom
2:54
6
Black Beauty
2:47
7
Bouncing Buoyancy
2:43
8
The Sergeant Was Shy
2:42
9
I’m Checkin’ Out, Goom‐Bye
1:57
10
Tootin’ Through the Roof
2:12
11
Grievin’
3:10
12
The Rabbit’s Jump
2:41
13
Moon Romance
2:47
14
Truly Wonderful
2:22
15
Dream Blues
3:01
16
Little Posey
2:40
17
I Never Felt This Way Before
2:59
18
Grievin’
2:52
19
Tootin’ Through the Roof
2:55
20
Weely (A Portrait of Billy Strayhorn)
2:57
CD 27: Cotton Tail (1940) (CD 1)
1
Toasted Pickle
2:39
2
Give It Up
2:58
3
You, You Darlin’
3:21
4
Jack the Bear
3:17
5
Ko‐Ko
2:43
6
Morning Glory
3:18
7
So Far, So Good
2:54
8
Conga Brava
2:58
9
Concerto for Cootie
3:17
10
Me and You
2:54
11
Bojangles
2:44
12
Cotton Tail
3:10
13
Never No Lament (Don’t Get Around Much Anymore)
3:18
14
Blue Goose
3:20
15
Dusk
3:19
16
Bojangles
2:52
17
A Portrait of Bert Williams
3:10
18
Blue Goose
3:22
19
Harlem Air Shaft
2:59
20
At a Dixie Roadside Dinner
2:46
CD 28: Cotton Tail (1940) (CD 2)
1
All Too Soon
3:31
2
Rumpus in Richmond
2:44
3
My Greatest Mistake
3:24
4
Sepia Panorama
3:20
5
There Shall Be No Night
3:12
6
In a Mellotone
3:17
7
Five O’Clock Whistle
3:18
8
Warm Valley
3:14
9
Pitter Panther Patter
3:01
10
Body and Soul
3:09
11
Sophisticated Lady
2:44
12
Mr. J.B. Blues
3:04
13
The Flaming Sword
3:07
14
Warm Valley
3:24
15
Across the Track Blues
2:58
16
Chloe (Song of the Swamp)
3:25
17
I Never Felt This Way Before
3:29
18
Day Dream
2:57
19
Good Queen Bess
3:00
20
That’s the Blues, Old Man
2:53
CD 29: Blue Serge (1940–1941) (CD 1)
1
Junior Hop
3:08
2
Without a Song
2:46
3
My Sunday Gal
3:09
4
Mobile Bay
3:06
5
Linger a While
3:24
6
Charlie the Chulo
3:03
7
Lament for Javanette
2:51
8
A Lull at Dawn
3:28
9
Ready Eddy
3:12
10
Sidewalks of New York
3:15
11
Flamingo
3:23
12
The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You
3:18
13
Take the “A” Train
2:55
14
Jumpin’ Punkins
3:33
15
John Hardy’s Wife
3:28
16
Blue Serge
3:22
17
After All
3:21
18
Dear Old Southland
3:25
19
Solitude
3:27
20
Bakiff
3:20
CD 30: Blue Serge (1940–1941) (CD 2)
1
Are You Sticking?
3:04
2
Just A‐Sittin’ and A‐Rockin’
3:35
3
The Giddybug Gallop
3:32
4
Chocolate Shake
2:52
5
I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)
3:18
6
Clementine
2:56
7
The Brown Skin Gal
3:10
8
Jump for Joy
2:52
9
Jump for Joy
2:55
10
Moon Over Cuba
3:10
11
Some Saturday
3:01
12
Subtle Slough
3:18
13
Menelik (The Lion of Judah)
3:19
14
Poor Bubber
3:20
15
Squaty Roo
2:24
16
Passion Flower
3:06
17
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
3:38
18
Goin’ Out the Back Way
2:42
19
Five O’Clock Drag
3:13
20
Rocks in My Bed
3:05
CD 31: Chelsea Bridge (1941–1944) (CD 1)
1
Bli‐Blip
3:05
2
Chelsea Bridge
2:54
3
Brown Suede
3:08
4
Noir Bleu
3:15
5
“C” Jam Blues
2:54
6
June
3:17
7
Raincheck
2:30
8
What Good Would It Do?
2:45
9
I Don’t Know What Kind of Blues I Got
3:14
10
Chelsea Bridge
2:53
11
Perdido
3:08
12
“C” Jam Blues
2:40
13
Moon Mist
2:59
14
What Am I Here For?
3:27
15
I Don’t Mind
2:50
16
Someone
3:11
17
My Little Brown Book
3:11
18
Main Stem
2:49
19
Johnny Come Lately
2:39
20
Hayfoot, Strawfoot
2:31
CD 32: Chelsea Bridge (1941–1944) (CD 2)
1
Sentimental Lady
3:03
2
A Slip of the Lip
2:54
3
Sherman Shuffle
2:39
4
Boy Meets Horn
4:46
5
Hop Skip Jump
2:38
6
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
3:18
7
Main Stem
2:56
8
Creole Love Call
4:29
9
The Mood to Be Wooed
5:03
10
My Little Brown Book
3:12
11
I’m Checkin’ Out Goom‐Bye
1:49
12
Tootin’ Through the Roof
2:12
13
I Ain’t Got Nothing but the Blues
2:41
14
I’m Beginning to See the Light
3:15
15
Don’t You Know I Care
2:58
16
I Didn’t Know About You
2:44
17
Work Song
4:39
18
Come Sunday
4:34
19
The Blues
4:36
20
Three Dances
4:26
CD 33: Mood Indigo (1945) (CD 1)
1
Carnegie Blues
2:49
2
Blue Cellophane
2:56
3
Mood to Be Wooed
2:59
4
My Heart Sings
2:51
5
Mood Indigo
2:56
6
Bug in a Rug
2:46
7
The Mooche
3:04
8
Kandylamb
2:54
9
Perfume Suite, Part I: Under the Balcony / Strange Feeling
4:52
10
Perfume Suite, Part II: Dancer in Love / Coloratura
5:11
11
Frantic Fantasy
4:42
12
It Don’t Mean a Thing
4:28
13
Black, Brown and Beige, Part I: Blues
5:09
14
Black, Brown and Beige, Part II: West Indian Dance / Emancipation Celebration / Sugar Hill Penthouse
6:31
15
The Kissing Bug
3:01
16
Everything but You
2:52
17
Riff Staccato
3:05
18
Prelude to a Kiss
3:01
19
Caravan
2:47
20
Black and Tan Fantasy
2:48
CD 34: Mood Indigo (1945) (CD 2)
1
Mood Indigo
2:43
2
Harlem Airshaft
4:02
3
The Minor Goes a Muggin’
2:58
4
In a Sentimental Mood
2:59
5
It Don’t Mean a Thing
3:00
6
Sophisticated Lady
2:40
7
Tonight I Shall Sleep
2:57
8
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
3:04
9
Solitude
3:03
10
Frankie and Johnnie
3:06
11
Jumpin’ Room Only
2:59
12
Black Beauty
2:48
13
Every Hour on the Hour
3:07
14
Hollywood Hangover
3:38
15
Kissing Bug
3:03
16
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
4:55
17
Frankie and Johnnie, Part I
3:56
18
Frankie and Johnnie, Part II
3:11
19
Sugar Hill Penthouse
4:22
20
Diminuendo in Blue / Crescendo in Blue
6:29
CD 35: New World a Comin’ (1945–1946) (CD 1)
1
New World a Comin’, Part 1
6:15
2
New World a Comin’, Part 2
6:15
3
Prelude to a Kiss
2:53
4
Ring Dem Bells
3:16
5
Perfume Suite: Strange Feeling
3:11
6
Perfume Suite: Coloratura
3:02
7
Perfume Suite: Balcony Serenade
3:08
8
Perfume Suite: Coloratura
3:00
9
Time’s a Wastin’
3:05
10
Perfume Suite: Dancers in Love
2:20
11
Carnegie Blues
2:50
12
Tell Ya What I’m Gonna Do
2:47
13
Come to Baby, Do!
2:48
14
I’m Just a Lucky So and So
3:14
15
Long, Strong and Consecutive
2:56
16
The Wonder of You
2:48
17
Tonk
2:44
18
Drawing Room Blues
3:36
19
Esquire Swank
3:59
20
“C” Jam Blues
1:59
CD 36: New World a Comin’ (1945–1946) (CD 2)
1
Unbooted Character
4:18
2
Rockabye River
3:04
3
Suddenly It Jumped
2:48
4
Transblucency
2:59
5
Just Squeeze Me
3:25
6
A Gathering in a Clearing
3:09
7
You Don’t Love Me No More
3:23
8
Pretty Woman
2:43
9
Hey! Baby
2:47
10
Indiana
2:46
11
Blue Is the Light
3:03
12
Lover Man
3:18
13
Just You, Just Me
2:51
14
Beale Street Blues
2:52
15
My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms
3:07
16
Memphis Blues
3:01
17
I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
3:01
18
St. Louis Blues
2:57
19
Swamp Fire
2:51
20
Royal Garden Blues
3:04
CD 37: Magenta Haze (1946) (CD 1)
1
Esquire Swank
3:31
2
Midriff
3:15
3
Diminuendo in Blue
2:44
4
Magenta Haze
2:57
5
The Golden Cress
4:31
6
Sultry Sunset
4:02
7
Deep South Suite, Part 1 (Magnolia’s Dripping With Molasses)
4:40
8
Deep South Suite, Part 2 (Hearsay or Orson Welles)
4:44
9
Deep South Suite, Part 3 (Nobody Was Lookin’)
2:55
10
Deep South Suite, Part 4 (Happy Go Lucky Local)
6:02
11
Liberian Suite (I Like the Sunrise)
4:31
12
Liberian Suite (Dance No.1)
4:56
13
Liberian Suite (Dance No.2)
3:27
14
Liberian Suite (Dance No.3)
3:47
15
Liberian Suite (Dance No.4)
3:07
16
Liberian Suite (Dance No.5)
5:08
CD 38: Magenta Haze (1946) (CD 2)
1
Take the “A” Train
3:39
2
Melloditti
8:21
3
Fugueaditty
3:19
4
Jam‐A‐Ditty
4:25
5
Magenta Haze
5:22
6
Diminuendo in Blue / Transblucency
8:08
7
Crescendo in Blue
4:03
8
Suburbanite
4:38
9
I’m Just a Lucky So and So
4:56
10
Riffin’ Drill
2:48
CD 39: In a Mellow Tone (1946–1947) (CD 1)
1
Caravan
3:59
2
In a Mellow Tone
3:06
3
Solid Old Man
3:41
4
Spiritual (Come Sunday) / Worksong
12:57
5
The Blues
5:54
6
Rugged Romeo
4:12
7
Sono
5:29
8
Air‐Conditioned Jungle
6:20
9
Pither Panther Patter
2:50
CD 40: In a Mellow Tone (1946–1947) (CD 2)
1
The New Look (Snibor)
3:45
2
Blue Serge
3:54
3
Triple Play
6:12
4
Harlem Airshaft
3:44
5
Johnny Hodges Medley: Wanderlust / Junior Hop / Jeep’s Blues / Squatty Roo / The Mood to Be Wooed
6:47
6
Mella Brava
4:06
7
Kickapoo Joy Juice
3:56
8
On a Turquoise Cloud
4:11
9
Bakiff
6:10
10
Cotton Tail
3:24

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Release credits

Al Sears
tenor saxophone [9]
Arthur Whetsel
trumpet [11.17, 9.8, 15.1]
Barney Bigard
clarinet [29.11, 27.4-5, 27.13, 11.17], reeds [22.19, 23.18, 15.1, 9.8], tenor saxophone [29.11, 11.17, 27.4-5, 27.13]
Ben Webster
tenor saxophone [27.4-5, 27.13, 29.11]
Billy Strayhorn
arranger [27.4, 29.11], piano [35.18, 29.11]
Billy Taylor Sr.
double bass [22.19, 23.18]
Claude Jones
trombone [9], valve trombone [9]
Cootie Williams
trumpet [15.1, 9.8, 23.18, 27.4-5, 27.13, 22.19, 11.17]
Cootie Williams and His Rug Cutters
performer [18]
Duke Ellington
arranger [4], piano [35.18, 22.19, 15.1, 23.12, 23.18, 27.4-5, 27.13, 36.9, 9.8, 11.17]
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
performing orchestra [19]
Francis Williams
trumpet [9]
Fred Guy
banjo [9.8, 11.17], guitar [29.11, 22.19, 15.1, 27.4-5, 27.13, 36.9]
Freddy Jenkins
trumpet [15.1, 9.8, 11.17]
Harold “Shorty” Baker
trumpet [9]
Harry Carney
alto saxophone [27.4-5, 27.13, 29.11, 11.17], baritone saxophone [23.18, 27.4-5, 27.13, 29.11, 36.9, 11.17], clarinet [11.17, 27.4-5, 27.13, 29.11, 36.9], reeds [36.9, 23.18, 15.1, 27.5, 9.8], saxophone [19]
Herb Jeffries
vocal [11]
Irving Mills
vocal [13]
Ivie Anderson
lead vocals [17]
Jimmy Blanton
double bass [27.4-5, 27.13, 29.11]
Jimmy Hamilton
clarinet [9], reeds [9], tenor saxophone [9]
Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton
trombone [29.11, 22.19, 36.9, 9.8, 11.17, 27.4-5, 27.13, 15.1]
Johnny Hodges
alto saxophone [29.11, 27.4-5, 27.13, 36.9, 11.17], clarinet [29.11, 11.17, 27.4-5, 27.13], reeds [9.8, 15.1, 23.18], saxophone [22.19, 23.18, 27.5], soprano saxophone [17]
Juan Tizol
valve trombone [27.4-5, 27.13, 11.17, 22.19, 29.11, 9.8]
Lawrence Brown
trombone [27.4-5, 27.13, 29.11, 36.9, 11.17, 22.19, 15.1]
Louis Bacon
trumpet [1]
Oscar Pettiford
double bass [9]
Otto Hardwick
alto saxophone [27.4-5, 27.13, 22.19, 29.11], clarinet [5], reeds [15.1, 23.18, 27.5], saxophone [18]
Ray Nance
lead vocals [9], trumpet [36.9, 29.11], vocal [9]
Rex Stewart
cornet [27.4-5, 27.13, 29.11, 22.19]
Russell Procope
alto saxophone [9], reeds [9]
Scat Powell
vocal [19]
Shelton "Scad" Hemphill
trumpet [9]
Sonny Greer
drums (drum set) [36.9, 27.4-5, 27.13, 22.19, 11.17, 23.18, 15.1, 9.8, 29.11]
Taft Jordan
trumpet [9]
The Rhythm Boys
vocal [8]
Wallace Jones
trumpet [22.19, 27.4-5, 27.13, 29.11]
Wellman Braud
double bass [11.17, 15.1, 9.8]
Wilbur de Paris
trombone [9]
William “Cat” Anderson
trumpet [9]

Issues

T
The Duke
40x CD
1999