Eight Classic Albums

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
• 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
• 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
• 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 [3.15-17, 3.19-23, 1.1-18, 2.1-22]
• Clark Terry
  trumpet [2.1-22, 3.15-17, 3.19-23, 1.1-18]
• Danny Barcelona
  drums (drum set) [12-21]
• Duke Ellington
  piano [3.1-11, 3.13, 3.15-17, 3.19-23, 2.1-22, 1.1-18, 4.1-21]
• Harold “Shorty” Baker
  trumpet [1.13-18, 2.1-12]
• Harry Carney
  baritone saxophone [1.1-18, 3.15-17, 3.19-23, 2.1-12], reeds [3.15-17, 3.19-23, 2.2, 2.11]
• Irving Townsend
  producer [1.16, 3.15-17, 3.19-23, 4.1-11]
• Jimmy Hamilton
  clarinet [1.16, 2.1-22, 3.15-17, 3.19-23], reeds [3.15-17, 3.19-23, 1.1-12, 2.2, 2.11], tenor saxophone [2.1-12, 3.15-17, 3.19-23]
• Jimmy Woode
  bass [2.1-22, 1.13-14, 1.16], 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 [1.13-18, 2.1-22]
• Johnny Hodges
  alto saxophone [2.2, 2.11, 3.15-17, 3.19-23, 1.1-12]
• 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 [1.13-18, 2.1-22, 3.15-17, 3.19-23]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [2.1-22, 1.1-18]
• Ray Hall
  recording [13, 15, 18, 20]
• Ray Nance
  solo [17], trumpet [2.1-12, 3.15-17, 3.19-23, 1.1-18], violin [16-17]
• Russell Procope
  alto saxophone [3.15-17, 3.19-23, 2.1-12, 1.16], clarinet [2.1-12, 1.16], reeds [2.2, 2.11, 1.1-12, 1.16, 3.15-17, 3.19-23]
• Sam Woodyard
  drums (drum set) [2.1-22, 4.1-11, 1.1-18], membranophone [15-17, 19-23]
• Trummy Young
  trombone [12-21]
• William “Cat” Anderson
  trumpet [1.1-18, 2.1-12]
• Willie Cook
  trumpet [2.1-12, 3.15-17, 3.19-23, 1.1-12]
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Issues

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  Eight Classic Albums

  4x CD
  2013