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Boxset / Compilation · 1999

Filed under Big Band
By DUKE ELLINGTON

Tracklist

Disc 1:

1. If You Can't Hold the Man You Love (Don't Cry When He's Gone) (2:48)
2. Washington Wabble (3:02)
3. Washington Wabble (3:02)
4. Black and Tan Fantasy (6:21)
5. Washington Wabble (3:02)
6. Creole Love Call (4:08)
7. Blues I Love to Sing (3:10)
8. Blues I Love to Sing (3:10)
9. Harlem River Quiver (2:48)
10. Harlem River Quiver (2:48)
11. Harlem River Quiver (2:48)
12. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (3:03)
13. Blue Bubbles (3:09)
14. Blue Bubbles (3:09)
15. Black Beauty (3:17)
16. Jubilee Stomp (2:40)
17. Got Everything But You (3:04)
18. Santa Claus, Bring My Man Back (2:58)
19. I Done Caught You Blues (2:58)
20. Mooche (3:14)

Total Time 61:59


Disc 2:

1. I Can't Give You Anything But Love (4:05)
2. No Papa No (3:18)
3. No Papa No (3:18)
4. I Can't Give You Anything But Love (4:05)
5. Bandanna Babies (3:21)
6. Diga Diga Do (2:57)
7. I Must Have That Man (5:19)
8. St. Louis Blues (5:46)
9. St. Louis Blues (5:46)
10. St. Louis Blues (5:46)
11. Flaming Youth (3:15)
12. Flaming Youth (3:15)
13. Saturday Night Function (5:22)
14. High Life (3:04)
15. Doin' the voom voom (3:09)
16. Doin' the voom voom (3:09)
17. Japanese Dream (3:30)
18. Harlemania (2:56)

Total Time 68:41

Disc 3:

1. Dicty Glide (3:15)
2. Dicty Glide (3:15)
3. Hot Feet (2:38)
4. Sloppy Joe (3:11)
5. Sloppy Joe (3:11)
6. Stevedore Stomp (2:48)
7. Night at the Cotton Club Part 1: Cotton Club Stomp / Misty Mornin' (3:49)
8. Night at the Cotton Club Part 2: Goin' To Town (4:29)
9. Cotton Club Stomp (2:57)
10. Misty mornin' (2:40)
11. Arabian Lover (2:49)
12. Saratoga Swing (2:49)
13. Mississippi (3:27)
14. Duke Steps Out (3:22)
15. Haunted Nights (3:21)
16. Swanee Shuffle (3:24)
17. Breakfast Dance (3:04)
18. Jazz Lips (3:16)
19. March of the Hoodlums (2:57)

Total Time 57:22

Disc 4:

1. Double Check Stomp (5:20)
2. My Gal Is Good For Nothing But Love (3:04)
3. I Was Made to Love You (3:05)
4. Sweet Dreams of Love (3:27)
5. Sweet Dreams of Love (3:27)
6. Jungle Nights In Harlem (2:51)
7. Sweet Jazz O' Mine (2:40)
8. Sweet Jazz O' Mine (2:38)
9. Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie (4:14)
10. Ring Dem Bells (4:07)
11. Ring Dem Bells (4:07)
12. Old Man Blues (5:05)
13. Old Man Blues (5:05)
14. Old Man Blues (5:05)
15. Three Little Words (5:12)
16. Three Little Words (5:12)
17. Ring Dem Bells (4:07)
18. Old Man Blues (5:05)
19. Old Man Blues (5:05)
20. Hittin' the Bottle (2:59)
21. Hittin' the Bottle (2:59)
22. That Lindy Hop (2:53)

Total Time 85:07

Disc 5:

1. You're Lucky To Me (2:56)
2. Memories Of You (3:15)
3. Nine Little Miles from Ten-Ten-Tennessee (3:24)
4. Nine Little Miles from Ten-Ten-Tennessee (3:23)
5. I'm So In Love With You (4:16)
6. I'm So In Love With You (4:16)
7. What Good Am I Without You? (2:51)
8. Blue again (3:13)
9. When a Black Man's Blue (3:06)
10. Mood Indigo (3:05)
11. What Good Am I Without You? (2:51)
12. When a Black Man's Blue (3:06)
13. River And Me (2:59)
14. Keep a Song In Your Soul (2:45)
15. Sam And Delilah (3:28)
16. Rockin' in Rhythm (3:48)
17. Rockin' in Rhythm (3:48)
18. Creole Rhapsody, Part 1 (3:07)
19. Creole Rhapsody, Part 2 (3:18)
20. Creole Rhapsody, Part 2 (3:18)

Total Time 62:53

Disc 6:

1. Limehouse Blues (3:11)
2. Echoes of the Jungle (3:31)
3. It's Glory (3:09)
4. Mystery Song (3:18)
5. Mystery Song (3:18)
6. Mood Indigo / Hot And Bothered / Creole Love Call (7:37)
7. Mood Indigo / Hot And Bothered / Creole Love Call (7:37)
8. East St. Louis Toodle-oo / Lot O' Fingers / Black And Tan Fantasy (7:32)
9. Dinah (2:55)
10. Bugle Call Rag (3:57)
11. Maori (3:13)
12. Rude Interlude (3:10)
13. Rude Interlude (3:10)
14. Dallas Doings (2:57)
15. Dallas Doings (2:57)

Total Time 58:52

Disc 7:

1. Dear Old Southland (3:32)
2. Dear Old Southland (3:32)
3. Daybreak Express (2:55)
4. Daybreak Express (2:56)
5. Delta Serenade (3:16)
6. Delta Serenade (3:16)
7. Stompy Jones (6:38)
8. Solitude (5:32)
9. Blue Feeling (3:15)
10. Ebony Rhapsody (3:21)
11. Cocktails For Two (3:26)
12. Cocktails For Two (3:24)
13. Live and Love Tonight (3:23)
14. I Met My Waterloo (3:35)
15. Troubled Waters (3:27)
16. Troubled Waters (3:27)
17. My Old Flame (3:21)

Total Time 59:37

Disc 8:

1. You, You Darlin' (5:19)
2. Jack the Bear (3:18)
3. Ko-ko (2:40)
4. Ko-ko (2:40)
5. Morning Glory (3:20)
6. So Far, So Good (4:11)
7. Conga brava (4:17)
8. Concerto For Cootie (2:36)
9. Me and You (2:58)
10. Bojangles (2:56)
11. Cotton Tail (4:39)
12. Never No Lament (3:17)
13. Blue Goose (5:21)
14. Dusk (3:22)
15. Dusk (3:22)
16. Bojangles (2:56)
17. Portrait Of Bert Williams (3:12)
18. Blue Goose (5:21)
19. Harlem Air Shaft (4:03)

Total Time 66:28




Disc 9:

1. Sepia Panorama (3:22)
2. Sepia Panorama (3:22)
3. There Shall Be No Night (3:10)
4. In a Mellow Tone (3:15)
5. Five O'Clock Whistle (3:17)
6. Warm Valley (3:13)
7. Pitter Panther Patter (3:07)
8. Pitter Panther Patter (3:01)
9. Body and Soul (3:03)
10. Body and Soul (3:05)
11. Body and Soul (3:08)
12. Sophisticated Lady (2:53)
13. Sophisticated Lady (2:45)
14. Mr. J.B. Blues (3:02)
15. Mr. J.B. Blues (3:11)
16. The Flaming Sword (3:20)
17. The Flaming Sword (3:06)
18. The Flaming Sword (3:08)
19. Warm Valley (3:19)
20. Warm Valley (3:21)
21. Across the Track Blues (2:59)
22. Across the Track Blues (2:58)
23. Chloe (3:24)

Total Time 66:44

Disc 10:

1. I Never Felt This Way Before (3:30)
2. I Never Felt This Way Before (3:34)
3. Day Dream (2:56)
4. Good Queen Bess (2:58)
5. Good Queen Bess (3:00)
6. That's the Blues, Old Man (2:54)
7. Junior Hop (3:03)
8. Junior Hop (3:07)
9. Without a Song (2:44)
10. Without a Song (2:45)
11. My Sunday Gal (3:07)
12. Mobile Bay (3:03)
13. Mobile Bay (3:03)
14. Linger Awhile (3:25)
15. Linger Awhile (3:23)
16. Charlie the Chulo (3:08)
17. Charlie the Chulo (0:46)
18. Charlie the Chulo (3:02)
19. Lament for Javanette (3:15)
20. Lament for Javanette (2:50)
21. A Lull at Dawn (4:12)
22. A Lull at Dawn (3:35)
23. A Lull at Dawn (3:26)
24. Ready Eddy (3:12)

Total Time 70:38

Disc 11:

1. Ready Eddy (2:32)
2. Ready Eddy (0:17)
3. Ready Eddy (3:06)
4. The Sidewalks of New York (3:13)
5. Flamingo (3:22)
6. The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You (3:17)
7. The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You (3:23)
8. Take the "A" Train (2:54)
9. Jumpin' Punkins (3:39)
10. Jumpin' Punkins (3:32)
11. John Hardy's Wife (3:27)
12. Blue Serge (3:20)
13. After All (3:21)
14. Dear Old Southland (3:17)
15. Dear Old Southland (3:23)
16. Solitude (3:29)
17. Solitude (3:14)
18. Bakiff (3:23)
19. Are You Sticking? (3:03)
20. Are You Sticking? (3:03)
21. Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin' (3:34)
22. The Giddybug Gallop (3:31)
23. Chocolate Shake (2:53)

Total Time 68:53

Disc 12:

1. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (3:18)
2. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (3:20)
3. Clementine (2:58)
4. Brown-Skin Gal (In the Calico Gown) (3:09)
5. Jump for Joy (2:52)
6. Jump for Joy (2:57)
7. Moon Over Cuba (3:13)
8. Some Saturday (2:58)
9. Subtle Slough (3:14)
10. Menelik: The Lion of Judah (3:15)
11. Menelik: The Lion of Judah (3:15)
12. Poor Bubber (3:19)
13. Squatty Roo (2:22)
14. Passion Flower (3:07)
15. Things Ain't What They Used to Be (3:36)
16. Goin' Out the Back Way (2:42)
17. Five O'Clock Drag (3:12)
18. Rocks in My Bed (3:06)
19. Bli-Blip (3:04)
20. Chelsea Bridge (2:59)
21. Brown Suede (3:05)
22. Noir Bleu (3:12)
23. C Jam Blues (2:51)
24. June (3:12)

Total Time 70:16

Disc 13:

1. Rain Check (2:49)
2. What Good Would It Do? (2:46)
3. I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got (3:14)
4. I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got (3:20)
5. Chelsea Bridge (2:53)
6. Perdido (3:07)
7. Perdido (3:07)
8. C Jam Blues (2:37)
9. Moon Mist (2:58)
10. Moon Mist (2:57)
11. What Am I Here For? (3:25)
12. I Don't Mind (2:46)
13. I Don't Mind (2:49)
14. Someone (3:08)
15. My Little Brown Book (3:11)
16. Main Stem (2:48)
17. Johnny Come Lately (2:40)
18. Hayfoot, Strawfoot (2:33)
19. Hayfoot, Strawfoot (2:32)
20. Sentimental Lady (3:02)
21. Sentimental Lady (3:00)
22. A Slip of the Lip (Can Sink a Ship) (2:55)
23. Sherman Shuffle (2:38)

Total Time 62:35

Disc 14:

1. I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues (2:39)
2. I'm Beginning to See the Light (3:11)
3. I'm Beginning to See the Light (3:09)
4. Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know) (3:04)
5. Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know) (2:57)
6. I Didn't Know About You (2:43)
7. Work Song (4:34)
8. Come Sunday (4:28)
9. The Blues (4:31)
10. Three Dances (4:32)
11. Carnegie Blues (2:46)
12. Blue Cellophane (2:53)
13. The Mood to Be Wooed (2:57)
14. (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings (2:50)
15. Kissing Bug (2:59)
16. Everything But You (2:49)
17. (Otto Make That) Riff Staccato (3:02)
18. Prelude to a Kiss (2:59)
19. Caravan (2:45)
20. Black and Tan Fantasy (2:47)
21. Mood Indigo (2:45)
22. In a Sentimental Mood (3:01)

Total Time 65:01

Disc 15:

1. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (2:57)
2. Sophisticated Lady (2:37)
3. Tonight I Shall Sleep (With a Smile on My Face) (2:54)
4. The Minor Goes Muggin' (3:00)
5. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (3:01)
6. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (3:00)
7. Solitude (3:03)
8. Frankie and Johnny (3:01)
9. Jumpin' Room Only (2:55)
10. Black Beauty (2:47)
11. Every Hour on the Hour (I Fall in Love With You) (3:03)
12. The Perfume Suite: Balcony Serenade (3:07)
13. The Perfume Suite: Strange Feeling (3:11)
14. The Perfume Suite: Dancers in Love (2:19)
15. The Perfume Suite: Coloratura (2:56)
16. The Perfume Suite: Coloratura (2:57)
17. Things Ain't What They Used to Be (3:05)
18. Tell Ya What I'm Gonna Do (2:46)
19. Come to Baby, Do! (2:47)
20. I'm Just a Lucky So and So (3:08)
21. Long, Strong and Consecutive (2:52)
22. The Wonder of You (2:43)
23. Tonk (2:46)
24. Drawing Room Blues (3:38)

Total Time 66:33

Disc 16:

1. Rockabye River (3:00)
2. Suddenly It Jumped (2:45)
3. Transblucency (2:58)
4. Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) (3:18)
5. A Gathering in a Clearing (3:08)
6. You Don't Love Me No More (3:24)
7. Pretty Woman (2:43)
8. Hey Baby (2:46)
9. (Back Home Again In) Indiana (2:46)
10. Blue Is the Night (3:04)
11. Lover Man (3:18)
12. Lover Man (3:17)
13. Just You, Just Me (2:51)
14. Beale Street Blues (2:51)
15. Memphis Blues (3:02)
16. St. Louis Blues (2:57)
17. My Honey's Lovin' Arms (3:08)
18. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You (3:01)
19. Swamp Fire (2:49)
20. Royal Garden Blues (3:06)
21. Esquire Swank (3:28)
22. Midriff (3:14)

Total Time 63:34

Disc 17:

1. Long, Long Journey (4:28)
2. The One That Got Away (4:21)
3. Gone With the Wind (4:33)
4. Metronome All-Out (4:11)
5. Skin Deep (7:34)
6. How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me (3:51)
7. Sophisticated Lady (6:13)
8. Perdido (4:38)
9. Caravan (4:13)
10. Harlem Suite (15:17)
11. The Hawk Talks (2:53)
12. Ellington Medley: Don't Get Around Much Any More/In a Sentimental Mood (6:54)
13. Jam With Sam (3:40)

Total Time 70:06

Disc 18:

1. In the Beginning God (19:59)
2. Tell Me It's the Truth (2:47)
3. Come Sunday (3:53)
4. The Lord's Prayer (2:42)
5. Come Sunday (6:05)
6. Will You Be There?/Ain't But the One (4:41)
7. New World A-Comin' (8:25)
8. David Danced (6:29)
9. Ninety Nine Percent (1:52)
10. My Mother, My Father and Love (3:57)
11. New World A-Comin' (8:18)
12. A Christmas Surprise (3:50)
13. A Christmas Surprise (3:28)

Total Time 73:06

Disc 19:

1. Praise God (3:09)
2. Supreme Being (11:46)
3. Heaven (4:54)
4. Something 'Bout Believing (8:14)
5. Almighty God (6:33)
6. The Shepherd (7:10)
7. It's Freedom (13:02)
8. Meditation (3:12)
9. The Biggest and Busiest Intersection (3:58)
10. T.G.T.T. (Too Good to Title) (2:27)
11. Don't Get Down on Your Knees to Pray Until You Have Forgotten Everyone (5:17)

Total Time 68:22

Disc 20:

1. Father Forgive (2:48)
2. Praise God and Dance (10:58)
3. Introduction (1:33)
4. Introduction (0:59)
5. The Lord's Prayer/My Love (7:49)
6. Is God a Three-Letter Word for Love? (Pt. 1) (4:27)
7. Is God a Three-Letter Word for Love? (Pt. 2) (3:46)
8. The Brotherhood (5:34)
9. Hallelujah (3:29)
10. Every Man Prays in His Own Language (11:09)
11. Ain't Nobody Nowhere Nothin' Without God (4:17)
12. The Majesty of God (7:14)

Total Time 61:23

Disc 21:

1. Far East Suite: Tourist Point of View (5:08)
2. Far East Suite: Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) (3:17)
3. Far East Suite: Isfahan (4:02)
4. Far East Suite: Depk (2:38)
5. Far East Suite: Mount Harissa (7:40)
6. Far East Suite: Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) (2:59)
7. Far East Suite: Agra (2:35)
8. Far East Suite: Amad (4:26)
9. Far East Suite: Ad Lib on Nippon (11:34)
10. Far East Suite: Tourist Point of View (4:57)
11. Far East Suite: Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) (3:08)
12. Far East Suite: Isfahan (4:10)
13. Far East Suite: Amad (4:15)

Total Time 58:49

Disc 22:

1. Take the "A" Train (4:37)
2. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (2:36)
3. Perdido (3:13)
4. Mood Indigo (5:09)
5. Black and Tan Fantasy (5:10)
6. The Twitch (3:09)
7. Solitude (3:34)
8. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (1:53)
9. The Mooche (5:34)
10. Sophisticated Lady (3:01)
11. Creole Love Call (3:55)
12. Caravan (5:25)
13. Wings & Things (1:57)
14. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (1:56)
15. House of Lords (5:37)
16. The Second Portrait of the Lion (4:11)
17. Take the "A" Train (2:22)
18. Caravan (4:38)
19. Mood Indigo (2:55)
20. Love Scene (2:24)

Total Time 69:14

Disc 23:

1. The Mooche (5:23)
2. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (2:47)
3. I'm Beginning to See the Light (2:39)
4. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (2:45)
5. Sophisticated Lady (3:21)
6. Timon of Athens March (3:09)
7. Solitude (3:00)
8. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) (4:12)
9. Satin Doll (2:33)
10. Single Petal of a Rose (2:41)
11. Snibor (4:13)
12. Boo-Dah (3:26)
13. Blood Count (4:16)
14. U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group) (3:13)
15. Charpoy (3:06)
16. After All (3:51)
17. The Intimacy of the Blues (2:57)
18. Rain Check (4:35)
19. Rain Check (5:22)
20. Day Dream (4:23)
21. Rock Skippin' at the Blue Note (3:01)

Total Time 71:33

Disc 24:

1. All Day Long (2:56)
2. Lotus Blossom (3:54)
3. Lotus Blossom (4:55)
4. Smada (3:20)
5. Smada (3:18)
6. Midriff (4:34)
7. My Little Brown Book (4:11)
8. Ocht O'Clock Rock (2:21)
9. The Piano Player (3:05)
10. Creole Love Call (4:28)
11. Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know) (4:30)
12. I Can't Get Started (5:57)
13. New York, New York (3:05)
14. Pitter Panther Patter (2:30)
15. How High the Moon (2:15)
16. Basin Street Blues (2:55)
17. Tiger Rag (3:55)
18. Soso (3:45)
19. Meditation (3:24)
20. Mecuria, the Lion (4:01)

Total Time 69:19

Line-up/Musicians

- Duke Ellington / piano
- Billy Strayhorn / piano
- Lena Horne / vocals
- Ivie Anderson / vocals
- Herb Jeffries / vocals
- Al Hibbler / vocals
- Harry Carney / soprano sax, alto sax, baritone sax, clarinet
- Johnny Hodges / soprano sax, alto sax, clarinet
- Russell Procope / alto sax, clarinet
- Barney Bigard / tenor sax, clarinet
- Jimmy Hamilton / tenor sax, clarinet
- Ben Webster / tenor sax
- Paul Gonsalves / tenor sax
- Ray Nance / trumpet, violin
- Clark Terry / trumpet, flugelhorn
- Arthur Whetsel / trumpet
- William "Cat" Anderson / trumpet
- Cootie Williams / trumpet
- Mercer Ellington / trumpet
- Juan Tizol / trombone
- Joe Nanton / trombone
- Lawrence Brown / trombone
- Tommy Dorsey / trombone
- Fred Guy / guitar, banjo
- Jimmy Blanton / bass
- Sonny Greer / drums
- Louis Bellson / drums
- Sam Woodyard / drums
- The Boston Pops Orchestra

About this release

RCA Victor