Eight Classic Albums - Duke Ellington

Eight Classic Albums

Compilation by Duke Ellington

Released 2013

Tracklist

CD 1: Such Sweet Thunder / Black Brown and Beige
1
Such Sweet Thunder
3:21
2
Sonnet for Ceasar
2:58
3
Sonnet to Hank Cinq
1:19
4
Lady Mac
3:37
5
Sonnet in Search of a Moor
2:19
6
The Telecasters
3:01
7
Up and Down, Up and Down (I Will Lead Them Up and Down)
3:05
8
Sonnet for Sister Katie
2:18
9
The Star Crossed Lovers
3:56
10
Madness in Great Ones
3:22
11
Half the Fun
4:18
12
Circle of Fourth
1:45
13
Part 1
8:15
14
Part 2
6:11
15
Part 3 (a.k.a. Light)
6:16
16
Part 4 (a.k.a. Come Sunday)
7:56
17
Part 5 (a.k.a. Come Sunday)
3:40
18
Part 6 (a.k.a. 23rd Psalm)
2:59
CD 2: Duke Ellington at the Bal Masque / The Cosmic Scene
1
Alice Blue Gown
3:01
2
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf
2:53
3
Got a Date With an Angel
2:25
4
Poor Butterfly
3:40
5
Satan Takes a Holiday
3:15
6
The Peanut Vender
3:29
7
Satin Doll
3:48
8
Lady in Red
2:49
9
Indian Love Call
3:36
10
The Donkey Serenade
2:13
11
Gypsy Love Song
3:54
12
Laugh, Clown Laugh
3:02
13
Avalon
3:20
14
Body and Soul
4:54
15
Bass-Ment
3:01
16
Early Autumn
3:07
17
Jones
2:52
18
Perdido
2:46
19
St Louis Blues
5:04
20
Spacemen
2:30
21
Midnight Sun
3:35
22
Take the 'A' Train
4:57
CD 3: Anatomy of a Murder / Nutcracker Suite
1
Main Theme/Anatomy of a Murder
3:56
2
Flirtbird
2:10
3
Way Early Subtone
3:58
4
Hero to Zero
2:12
5
Low Key Lightly
3:37
6
Happy Anatomy
2:31
7
Midnight Indigo
2:45
8
Almost Cried
2:26
9
Sunswept Sunday
1:53
10
Grace Valse
2:29
11
Happy Anatomy
1:23
12
Haupe
2:36
13
Upper and Outest
2:19
14
Anatomy of a Murder (single version)
2:43
15
Overture
3:23
1.0 ★
16
Toot Toot Tootie Toot (dance of the Reed Pipes)
2:31
17
Peanut Brittle Brigade
4:40
18
Sugar Rum Cherry (dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy)
3:07
19
Entr'Acte
1:53
20
The Volga Vouty (Russian dance)
2:53
21
Chinoiserie (Chinese dance)
2:48
22
Dance of the Floreadones (Waltz of the Flowers)
4:05
23
Arabesque Cookie (Arabian dance)
5:43
CD 4: Piano in the Foreground / Together Again
1
I Can't Get Started
4:20
2
Gong-Go
4:13
3
Body and Soul
4:42
1.0 ★
4
Blues for Jerry
4:38
5
Fontainebleau Forest
2:46
6
Summertime
3:50
7
It's Bad to Be Forgotten
3:15
8
A Hundred Dreams Ago
2:25
9
So
4:31
1.0 ★
10
Searching
1:46
11
Springtime in Africa
3:44
12
Duke's Place
5:03
13
I'm Just a Lucky So and So
3:08
4.0 ★
14
Cottontail
3:42
15
Mood Indigo
3:56
16
Do Nuthin' Till You Hear From Me
2:37
17
The Beautiful American
3:08
18
Black and Tan Fantasy
4:00
19
Drop Me Off in Harlem
3:49
20
The Moochie
3:40
21
In a Mellow Tone
3:45

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Release credits

Aaron Bell
bass [15-17, 19-23], double bass [1-11]
Allan Emig
engineer [1-11]
Andrew “Fats” Ford
trumpet [15-17, 19-23]
Barney Bigard
clarinet [12-21]
Bill Graham
alto saxophone [13-18]
Bill Putnam
engineer [1-12], producer [1-12]
Bob Thiele
producer [13, 15, 18, 20]
Booty Wood
trombone [15-17, 19-23]
Britt Woodman
trombone [1.1-18, 3.15-17, 3.19-23, 2.1-22]
Clark Terry
trumpet [2.1-22, 1.1-18, 3.15-17, 3.19-23]
Danny Barcelona
drums (drum set) [12-21]
Duke Ellington
piano [1.1-18, 2.1-22, 3.1-11, 3.13, 3.15-17, 3.19-23, 4.1-21]
Harold “Shorty” Baker
trumpet [2.1-12, 1.13-18]
Harry Carney
baritone saxophone [2.1-12, 1.1-18, 3.15-17, 3.19-23], reeds [3.15-17, 3.19-23, 2.2, 2.11]
Irving Townsend
producer [3.15-17, 3.19-23, 4.1-11, 1.16]
Jimmy Hamilton
clarinet [3.15-17, 3.19-23, 2.1-22, 1.16], reeds [3.15-17, 3.19-23, 1.1-12, 2.2, 2.11], tenor saxophone [3.15-17, 3.19-23, 2.1-12]
Jimmy Woode
bass [1.13-14, 1.16, 2.1-22], double bass [1.1-12, 1.15, 1.17-18, 2.2, 2.11]
John Sanders
trombone [1.1-12, 2.2, 2.11], valve trombone [2.1-22, 1.13-18]
Johnny Hodges
alto saxophone [2.2, 2.11, 1.1-12, 3.15-17, 3.19-23]
Juan Tizol
valve trombone [15-17, 19-23]
Ken Robertson
remixer [1-12]
Lawrence Brown
trombone [15-17, 19-23]
Louis Armstrong
trumpet [12-21], vocal [12-16, 19, 21]
Mahalia Jackson
vocal [16, 18]
Mort Herbert
double bass [12-21]
Paul Gonsalves
tenor saxophone [2.1-22, 3.15-17, 3.19-23, 1.13-18]
Quentin Jackson
trombone [1.1-18, 2.1-22]
Ray Hall
recording [13, 15, 18, 20]
Ray Nance
solo [17], trumpet [3.15-17, 3.19-23, 1.1-18, 2.1-12], violin [16-17]
Russell Procope
alto saxophone [1.16, 3.15-17, 3.19-23, 2.1-12], clarinet [1.16, 2.1-12], reeds [1.1-12, 1.16, 2.2, 2.11, 3.15-17, 3.19-23]
Sam Woodyard
drums (drum set) [4.1-11, 1.1-18, 2.1-22], membranophone [15-17, 19-23]
Trummy Young
trombone [12-21]
William “Cat” Anderson
trumpet [2.1-12, 1.1-18]
Willie Cook
trumpet [2.1-12, 3.15-17, 3.19-23, 1.1-12]

Issues

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Eight Classic Albums
4x CD
2013