Mrs. Clinkscales to The Cotton Club (1926-1929)

Compilation by Duke Ellington

Released 2005

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    It's Gonna Be a Cold, Cold Winter (So Get Another Place to Stay)
    Alberta Prime
    2:55
  • 2
    Parlor Social de Luxe
    Alberta Prime And Sonny Greer
    3:06
  • 3
    Choo Choo (Gotta Hurry Home)
    The Washingtonians
    3:14
  • 4
    Rainy Nights (Rainy Days)
    The Washingtonians
    3:26
  • 5
    How Come You Do Me Like You Do?
    Florence Bristol
    3:11
  • 6
    I'm Gonna Hang Around My Sugar
    The Washingtonians
    3:02
  • 7
    Trombone Blues
    The Washingtonians
    3:01
  • 8
    Georgia Grind
    Duke Ellington’s Washingtonians
    2:44
  • 9
    Parlor Social Stomp
    Duke Ellington’s Washingtonians
    3:11
  • 10
    (You've Got Those) Wanna-Go-Back-Again Blues
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:20
  • 11
    If You Can't Hold the Man You Love
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:22
  • 12
    I'm Just Wild About Animal Crackers
    Duke Ellington & His Washingtonians
    3:09
  • 13
    Li'l Farina
    Duke Ellington & His Washingtonians
    3:02
  • 14
    Lucky Number Blues
    Alberta Jones & The Ellington Twins
    3:02
  • 15
    I'm Gonna Put You Right in Jail
    Alberta Jones & The Ellington Twins
    3:00
  • 16
    East St. Louis Toodle-O [Sic]
    Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra
    2:54
  • 17
    Birmingham Breakdown
    Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra
    2:47
  • 18
    Immigration Blues
    Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra
    3:02
  • 19
    The Creeper (Matrix E-4323)
    Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra
    2:51
  • 20
    The Creeper (Matrix E-4324)
    Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra
    2:49
  • 21
    New Orleans Low-Down
    Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra
    3:00
  • 22
    Song of the Cotton Field
    Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra
    3:00
  • 23
    Birmingham Breakdown
    Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra
    2:41
  • 24
    East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
    Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra
    3:01
  • CD 2
  • 1
    East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
    Duke Ellington & His Washingtonians
    3:07
  • 2
    Hop Head
    Duke Ellington & His Washingtonians
    2:58
  • 3
    Down in Our Alley Blues
    The Washingtonians
    3:03
  • 4
    Black and Tan Fantasy
    The Washingtonians
    3:19
  • 5
    Soliloquy
    The Washingtonians
    3:09
  • 6
    Washington Wobble
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    2:54
  • 7
    Creole Love Call
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:13
  • 8
    The Blues I Love to Sing
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:05
  • 9
    Black and Tan Fantasie
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:09
  • 10
    Washington Wobble
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 11
    What Can a Poor Fellow Do?
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 12
    Black and Tan Fantasy
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:16
  • 13
    Chicago Stomp Down
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    2:46
  • 14
    Harlem River Quiver (Brown Berries)
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    2:44
  • 15
    East St. Louie Toodle-Oo (East St. Louie Toddle-Oo)
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:31
  • 16
    Blue Bubbles
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 17
    Red Hot Band (Red Hot Brand)
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    2:55
  • 18
    Doin' the Frog
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:10
  • 19
    Sweet Mama (Papa's Gettin' Mad)
    The Washingtonians
    2:54
  • 20
    Stack O'Lee Blues
    The Washingtonians
    2:50
  • 21
    Bugle Call Rag
    The Washingtonians
    2:39
  • 22
    Take It Easy
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:11
  • 23
    Jubilee Stomp
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    2:44
  • 24
    Harlem Twist
    Lonnie Johnson's Harlem Footwarmers
    3:16
  • CD 3
  • 1
    East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
    The Washingtonians
    2:55
  • 2
    Jubilee Stomp
    The Whoopee Makers
    2:36
  • 3
    Take It Easy
    The Washingtonians
    2:39
  • 4
    Take It Easy
    The Washingtonians
    2:41
  • 5
    Jubilee Stomp
    The Washingtonians
    2:46
  • 6
    Black Beauty (Firewater)
    The Washingtonians
    3:14
  • 7
    Black Beauty
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    2:52
  • 8
    Jubilee Stomp
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    2:34
  • 9
    Got Everything but You
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    2:58
  • 10
    Yellow Dog Blues
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    2:58
  • 11
    Tishomingo Blues
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:00
  • 12
    Diga Diga Doo
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    2:54
  • 13
    Doin' the New Low-Down
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:08
  • 14
    Black Beauty
    3:03
  • 15
    Swampy River
    2:51
  • 16
    The Mooche
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:14
  • 17
    Move Over
    Lonnie Johnson's Harlem Footwarmers
    3:06
  • 18
    Hot and Bothered (Hot and Brothered)
    Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
    3:18
  • 19
    The Mooche
    The Whoopee Makers
    2:49
  • 20
    Hot and Bothered
    The Whoopee Makers
    2:46
  • 21
    Move Over
    The Whoopee Makers
    2:56
  • 22
    The Mooche
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:13
  • 23
    Louisiana
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:03
  • 24
    Awful Sad
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:17
  • CD 4
  • 1
    The Mooche
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:33
  • 2
    Santa Claus, Bring My Man Back to Me
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    2:59
  • 3
    I Done Caught You Blues
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    2:55
  • 4
    I Can't Give You Anything but Love
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:06
  • 5
    No, Papa, No (take 1)
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:22
  • 6
    No, Papa, No (take 2)
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:21
  • 7
    Bandanna Babies
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:20
  • 8
    Diga Diga Doo
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    2:54
  • 9
    I Must Have That Man
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:24
  • 10
    The Blues With a Feelin'
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:17
  • 11
    Goin' to Town
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    2:59
  • 12
    Misty Mornin'
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:20
  • 13
    Hit Me in the Nose Blues
    Ozie Ware With The Whoopee Makers
    3:20
  • 14
    It's All Coming Home to You
    Ozie Ware With The Whoopee Makers
    2:41
  • 15
    St. Louis Blues
    Warren Mills and His Blues Serenaders
    4:14
  • 16
    Hottentot
    The Whoopee Makers
    2:33
  • 17
    Misty Mornin'
    The Whoopee Makers
    2:49
  • 18
    Doin' the Voom Voom
    The Jungle Band
    3:10
  • 19
    Tiger Rag - Part 1
    The Jungle Band
    2:54
  • 20
    Tiger Rag - Part 2
    The Jungle Band
    2:54
  • 21
    Flaming Youth
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:19
  • 22
    Saturday Night Function
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:05
  • 23
    High Life
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:08
  • 24
    Doin' the Voom Voom
    Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra
    3:09

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Release credits

  • vocal [13]
  • vocal [14-15]
  • vocal [1-2]
  • trumpet [3.7, 3.9, 3.13, 3.16, 3.23-24, 4.1, 4.7-9, 4.11-12, 4.17-18, 4.18-20, 4.22]
  • vocal [16]
  • clarinet [4.1, 4.3, 4.11-12, 4.18, 2.19-24, 3.7, 3.9, 3.13, 3.16], reeds [2.19-21, 3.23-24, 4.7-9, 4.11-12, 4.17-18, 4.18-20, 4.22], tenor saxophone [3.7, 3.9, 3.13, 3.16, 4.1, 4.11-12, 2.19-24]
  • trumpet [1.3-4, 1.12-13, 1.16-24, 3.7, 3.9, 3.13, 3.16, 3.23-24, 2.1-4, 2.14-16, 2.16-24, 4.8, 4.11-12, 4.17-18, 4.18-20, 4.22]
  • trombone [3-4, 6-11]
  • trumpet [2.1-3, 1.12-13, 1.17]
  • reeds [8-11]
  • arranger [4.11-12, 2.1-4, 2.11, 2.13, 2.22-24, 3.13, 3.16, 1.7-9, 1.17-18, 1.21-22], piano [2.1-5, 2.11, 2.13-16, 2.16-24, 3.7, 3.9, 3.13-14, 3.14-15, 3.15-16, 3.23-24, 1.1-7, 1.7-24, 4.1, 4.3, 4.7-9, 4.11-12, 4.16-18, 4.18-20, 4.22], solo [14-15]
  • alto saxophone [1.16-24, 2.1-3, 2.5]
  • vocal [5]
  • banjo [2.1-5, 2.11, 2.13-16, 2.16-24, 3.7, 3.9, 3.13, 3.16, 3.23-24, 4.1, 4.7-9, 4.11-12, 4.17-18, 4.18-20, 4.22, 1.6-13, 1.16-18, 1.21-24]
  • trumpet [3, 7-9, 11-12, 17-18, 18-20, 22]
  • banjo [3-4]
  • alto saxophone [4.1, 2.2, 2.11, 2.13, 2.16, 2.19-24, 3.7, 3.9, 3.13, 3.16], baritone saxophone [3.7, 3.9, 3.13, 3.16, 2.1-3, 2.11, 2.13, 2.16, 2.19-24, 4.18], clarinet [3.13, 3.16, 4.1, 2.2, 2.11, 2.13, 2.19-24], reeds [3.23-24, 4.7, 4.9, 4.18, 4.18-20, 4.22, 2.14-21]
  • trumpet [8-11]
  • reeds [12-13]
  • tuba [2]
  • tuba [2.1-2, 2.2-3, 2.3, 1.6-11, 1.17]
  • vocal [4.8, 3.12-13]
  • trumpet [11, 13]
  • trombone [2.1-5, 2.11, 2.13, 2.16-24, 3.7, 3.9, 3.13, 3.16, 3.23-24, 4.1, 4.7-9, 4.11-12, 4.17-18, 4.18-20, 4.22, 1.16-24], trumpet [14-16]
  • alto saxophone [4.1, 4.11-12, 4.18, 3.13, 3.16], baritone saxophone [13], clarinet [3.16, 4.1, 4.11-12], reeds [4.7-9, 4.11-12, 4.17-18, 4.18-20, 4.22, 3.23-24], soprano saxophone [3.13, 3.16, 4.11-12]
  • trumpet [5]
  • trumpet [8-11]
  • guitar [4.11-12, 3.16]
  • trumpet [2.1-5, 2.11, 2.13-16, 2.16-24, 3.9, 1.16-24]
  • tuba [1.12-13, 1.16-24, 2.1-5]
  • alto saxophone [3.7, 3.9, 2.1-3, 2.11, 2.13, 2.16, 2.19-24, 1.3-7, 1.14-15], baritone saxophone [1-3, 11, 13, 19-24], reeds [2.1-5, 2.14-21, 1.8-9, 1.16-17, 1.21-24], saxophone [4.8, 4.11-12, 4.17, 4.20, 1.8-13, 1.16-20], soprano saxophone [1-3, 11, 13, 19-24]
  • vocal [3, 6-8, 13-14]
  • trumpet [6-7]
  • clarinet [1-3], reeds [1.6-13, 1.16-18, 1.21-22, 2.1-4], tenor saxophone [1-3]
  • baritone saxophone [2], clarinet [1-3, 11, 13, 16], reeds [14-21], tenor saxophone [1-3, 11, 13]
  • drums (drum set) [4.1, 4.3, 4.7-9, 4.11, 4.11-12, 4.12, 4.17-18, 4.18-20, 4.22, 1.3-4, 1.6-13, 1.16-24, 2.1-2, 2.2-3, 2.3-5, 2.11, 2.13-16, 2.16-19, 2.19-20, 2.20-24, 3.7, 3.9, 3.13, 3.16, 3.23-24], vocal [2]
  • double bass [2.11, 2.13-16, 2.16-19, 2.19-20, 2.20-24, 3.7, 3.9, 3.13, 3.16, 3.23-24, 4.3, 4.7-9, 4.11, 4.11-12, 4.12, 4.17-18, 4.18-20, 4.22], tuba [1]

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