Album · 1987
Tracklist
"Countdown" - 2:32
"When I'm Feeling Kinda Blue" - 5:50
"El Viti" (Gerald Wilson) - 3:21
"Draggin' Blues" - 6:10
"Cotton Tail" - 3:42
"Now Ain't It" - 4:16
"The Last Go-Round" - 3:32
"Moon Mist" - 6:13
"Skillipoop" - 2:00
"Banquet Scene (Timon of Athens)" - 2:20
"Love Scene" (Barer, Ellington) 3:08
"Rod la Rocque" - 4:13
"Rhythm Section Blues" - 3:09
"Lele" - 3:07
"Ocht O'Clock Rock" - 3:16
"Lady" (Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) - 3:33
"Rondolet" - 2:43
Line-up/Musicians
Duke Ellington – piano
Ray Nance -cornet (tracks 9 & 10), trumpet (track 8)
Nat Adderley (tracks 1-3 & 11-13), Cat Anderson, Willie Cook (track 8), Mercer Ellington (tracks 1-3 & 11-17), Herb Jones (tracks 9, 10 & 14-17), Howard McGhee (tracks 9 & 10), Allen Smith (tracks 1-3 & 11-13), Clark Terry (track 8), Cootie Williams (tracks 4-7 & 14-17) - trumpet
Lawrence Brown (tracks 1-3 & 8-17), Buster Cooper (tracks 1-3 & 8-17), Quentin Jackson (track 8), Britt Woodman (track 8) - trombone
John Sanders - valve trombone (track 8)
Chuck Connors - bass trombone (tracks 1-3 & 8-17)
Jimmy Hamilton - clarinet, tenor saxophone (tracks 1-3 & 8-17)
Russell Procope - alto saxophone, clarinet (tracks 1-3 & 8-17)
Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone
Paul Gonsalves - tenor saxophone
Harry Carney - baritone saxophone
John Lamb (track 1-7 & 9-17), Jimmy Woode (track 8)- bass
Louis Bellson (tracks 1-3 & 11-13), Chris Columbus (tracks 14-17), Rufus Jones (tracks 4-7), Sam Woodyard (tracks 8-10) - drums
About this release
LMR
Recorded in Chicago late January 1957 (track 8), at Fine Studios, New York on March 17, 1965 (tracks 9 & 10), at Coast Recorders Studio, San Francisco on April 14, 1965 (tracks 11-13) and August 30, 1965 (tracks 1-3) at RCA Studio B, New York on December 28, 1966 (tracks 4-7) and July 11, 1967 (tracks 14-17)
Thanks to snobb for the addition