Album · 1987
Tracklist
1 Things Ain't What They Used To Be 3:17
2 Something Sexual 2:16
3 The Riff 2:23
4 Bluer 2:12
5 Wailing 'Bout 2:47
6 I Cover The Waterfront 3:26
7 Blues A La Willie Cook 4:02
8 Slow Blues Ensemble 3:12
9 Circle Of Fourths 2:12
10 Perdido 3:12
11 Three Trumps 2:46
12 Deep Blues 3:29
13 Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Instrumental) 6:50
14 Paris Blues 2:48
15 I've Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) 3:15
16 Circle Blues 5:45
17 Perdido (Instrumental) 3:15
18 The Sky Fell Down 4:29
19 Cottontail 3:03
20 Passion Flower 4:22
Line-up/Musicians
Duke Ellington – piano (tracks 1-12, 14 & 17-20)
Billy Strayhorn - piano (tracks 13, 15 & 16)
Ray Nance -cornet (tracks 13-20), trumpet ( (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7, 8 & 11)
Cat Anderson (track 1 & 17-20), Bill Berry (track 14 & 17-20), Roy Burrowes (track 14 & 17-20), Willie Cook (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7, 8 & 11), Eddie Mullens (track 14), Clark Terry (tracks 1, 3, 4 & 8-11) - trumpet
Lawrence Brown (track 13-20), Leon Cox (track 14 & 17-20), Quentin Jackson (track 1), Britt Woodman (track 1) - trombone
John Sanders - valve trombone (track 1)
Chuck Connors - bass trombone (track 14 & 17-20)
Jimmy Hamilton - clarinet, tenor saxophone (track 1, 14 & 17-20)
Russell Procope - alto saxophone, clarinet (track 1, 14 & 17-20)
Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone (tracks 1, 2, 13-20)
Paul Gonsalves - tenor saxophone
Harry Carney - baritone saxophone (track 1 & 13-20)
Aaron Bell (track 13-20), Jimmy Woode (tracks 1-12)- bass
Sonny Greer (track 14), Sam Woodyard (tracks 1-13, 15-20) - drums
Unidentified choir (track 2)
About this release
LMR
Recorded January 17 & 29, 1957, February 1957, March 29, 1962, May 28, 1962 and June 6, 1962
Thanks to snobb for the addition