Blues in Orbit

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Release credits

• Andrew “Fats” Ford
  trumpet [3]
• Billy Strayhorn
  piano [6, 12]
• Booty Wood
  trombone [4-6, 8-14]
• Britt Woodman
  trombone, trombone [1-6, 8-14]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [1-3]
• Duke Ellington
  piano [1-5, 8-11, 13-14]
• Harold “Shorty” Baker
  trumpet [1-3]
• Harry Carney
  baritone saxophone [1-6, 8-14], bass clarinet [12], clarinet [12]
• Jimmy Hamilton
  clarinet [1-6, 8, 8-9, 9-14, 14], tenor saxophone [1-5, 5-6, 8-14, 14]
• Jimmy Johnson
  drums (drum set) [4-6, 8-14], membranophone [10]
• Jimmy Woode
  bass [1-6, 8-14]
• John Sanders
  trombone, trombone [2-3], valve trombone [1-3]
• Johnny Hodges
  alto saxophone [3-6, 8-14]
• Matthew Gee
  baritone horn [13], trombone [4-6, 8-14]
• Paul Gonsalves
  tenor saxophone [1-6, 8-14], tenor vocals [8]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [1-3]
• Ray Nance
  trumpet, trumpet [1-6, 8-14], violin [8]
• Russell Procope
  alto saxophone [1-6, 8-14], clarinet [1-6, 8-14]
• Sam Woodyard
  drums (drum set) [1-3]
• William “Cat” Anderson
  trumpet [1-3]
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Issues

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  Blues In Orbit

  Digital Media
  1 January 1960
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  B
  Blues in Orbit

  12" Vinyl
  1960
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  B
  Blues in Orbit

  Unknown format
  1988
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  B
  Blues in Orbit

  CD
  1988
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  B
  Blues in Orbit

  Hybrid SACD (CD layer), Hybrid SACD (SACD layer, 2 channels)
  8 November 1999
• B
  Blues in Orbit

  Unknown format
  27 July 2004
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  B
  Blues In Orbit

  Digital Media
  27 July 2004
• 

  B
  Blues in Orbit

  CD
  2004
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  B
  Blues in Orbit

  CD
  2004
• 

  B
  Blues in Orbit

  CD
  1 February 2008
• B
  Blues in Orbit

  CD
  3 April 2009
• B
  Blues in Orbit

  CD
  27 September 2010
• B
  Blues in Orbit

  SACD
  2016
• B
  Blues in Orbit

  Digital Media
  2020