Take the 'A' Train

Tracklist

• 1
  Take the 'A' Train
  2:57
• 2
  Flamingo
  3:25
• 3
  Sophisticated Lady
  2:42
• 4
  It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  3:00
• 5
  What Am I Here For?
  3:28
• 6
  Swamp Fire
  2:51
• 7
  I Don't Mind
  2:52
• 8
  Come to Baby, Do!
  2:49
• 9
  Jump for Joy
  2:53
• 10
  Solitude
  3:04
• 11
  Cotton Tail
  3:12
• 12
  Never No Lament
  3:19
  4.0 ★
• 13
  The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You
  3:20
• 14
  Blue Goose
  3:23
• 15
  Dusk
  3:21
• 16
  Moon Over Cuba
  3:12
• 17
  Just A-Settin' and A-Rockin'
  3:35
• 18
  Times A-Wastin'
  3:08
• 19
  Rockin' Chair
  3:10
• 20
  Twelfth Street Rag
  3:00
• 21
  Jack the Bear
  3:18
• 22
  Ko-Ko
  2:44
• 23
  Concerto for Cootie
  3:18
• 24
  Perdido
  3:10
• 25
  What Am I Here For?
  3:27

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Release credits

• Barney Bigard
  clarinet [21-22], tenor saxophone [21-22]
• Ben Webster
  tenor saxophone [21-22]
• Billy Strayhorn
  arranger [21]
• Cootie Williams
  trumpet [21-22]
• Duke Ellington
  arranger [21], piano [21-22]
• Fred Guy
  guitar [21-22]
• Harry Carney
  alto saxophone [21-22], baritone saxophone [21-22], clarinet [21-22], reeds [22]
• Herb Jeffries
  vocal [2, 9]
• Ivie Anderson
  vocal [7]
• Jimmy Blanton
  double bass [21-22]
• Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton
  trombone [21-22]
• Johnny Hodges
  alto saxophone [21-22], clarinet [21-22], saxophone [22]
• Joya Sherrill
  vocal [4, 8]
• Juan Tizol
  valve trombone [21-22]
• Lawrence Brown
  trombone [21-22]
• Otto Hardwick
  alto saxophone [21-22], clarinet [22], reeds [22]
• Rex Stewart
  cornet [21-22]
• Sonny Greer
  drums (drum set) [21-22]
• Wallace Jones
  trumpet [21-22]
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Issues

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  Take the 'A' Train

  CD
  2005