The Duke : the Columbia years (1927-1962) / Duke Ellington.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.

Contributor:

Strayhorn, Billy.

Basie, Count, 1904-1984.

Whetsol, Arthur.

Nanton, Tricky Sam, 1904-1946.

Bigard, Barney.

Guy, Fred.

Braud, Wellman.

Greer, Sonny.

Johnson, Lonnie, 1894-1970.

Nance, Ray, 1913-1976.

Carney, Harry.

Clooney, Rosemary

Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972.

Davis, Kay, 1920-2012.

Cox, Baby.

Anderson, Ivie.

Bellson, Louie, 1924-2009.

Woodyard, Sam, 1925-1988.

Taylor, Billy, 1906-1986.

Procope, Russell, 1908-1981.

Tizol, Juan, 1900-1984.

Jenkins, Freddy, 1906-1978.

Wood, Booty, 1919-1987.

Connors, Chuck, 1930-1994.

Williams, Cootie

Hodges, Johnny.

Language:

English

No linguistic content

Subjects (All):

Jazz.

Genre:

Sound recordings.

Jazz.

Physical Description:

3 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (43 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm)

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

Columbia years (1927-1962)

Duke Ellington, the Columbia years

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia, [1999]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Contents:

Disc 1 (1927-1940). Hot and bothered (2:52)

East St. Louis toodle-oo (3:04) ; Black and tan fantasy (3:24) / D. Ellington, B. Miley

Black beauty / E.K. Ellington (3:24)

Ring dem bells (2:48) ; The mooche (3:14) ; It don't mean a thing (if it aint' got that swing) (3:08) / D. Ellington, I. Mills

Slippery horn (3:03)

Saddest tale / D. Ellington, I. Mills (3:16)

Showboat shuffle (3:01)

In a sentimental mood (3:15)

In a jam (2:58)

Caravan / I. Mills, D. Ellington, J. Tizol (3:04)

The gal from Joe's / D. Ellington, I. Mills (2:54)

Braggin' in brass / H. Nemo, I. Mills, D. Ellington (2:44)

I let a song go out of my heart / H. Nemo, I. Mills, D. Ellington, J. Redmond (3:08)

Battle of swing / D. Ellington, I. Mills (2:57)

Prelude to a kiss / I. Gordon, I. Mills, D. Ellington (2:56)

Slap happy (2:44)

Old King Dooji (2:29)

Portrait of the lion (2:22)

Country gal (2:56)

Little posey (2:38)

Tootin' through the roof (2:52)

Sophisticated lady / D. Ellington, I. Mills, M. Parish (2:50). Disc 2 (1947-1952). Hy'a Sue (2:52)

Lady of the lavender mist (3:17)

You're just an old antidisestablishmentarianismist / D. George, D. Ellington (2:47)

Golden cress / D. Ellington, L. Bernn (2:57)

Sultry serenade / D. Ellington, T. Glenn (3:04)

Maybe I should change my ways / J. Latouche, D. Ellington (3:14)

Stomp, look and listen (3:46)

On a turquiose cloud / L. Brown, D. Ellington (3:22)

Three cent stomp (3:01)

Don't get around much anymore / B. Russell, D. Ellington (3:04)

Progressive gavotte / B. Strayhorn (2:56)

I can't believe that you're in love with me / C. Gaskill, I. Mills, J. McHugh (2:49)

I like the sunrise (4:29)

Snibor / B. Strayhorn (2:51)

Creole love call / D. Ellington, B. Strayhorn (2:54)

The tattooed bride (11:41)

Brown Betty / D. Ellington, B. Strayhorn (3:05)

Primpin' at the prom (3:02)

Monologue (pretty and the wolf) / J. Hamilton, D. Ellington (2:14)

Take the 'A' train / B. Strayhorn (7:15). Disc 3 (1956-1962). Jeep's blues / D. Ellington, J. Hodges (4:39)

Solitude / E. Delange, I. Mills, D. Ellington (4:41)

Blue rose (2:22)

The star-crossed lovers / D. Ellington, B. Strayhorn (4:00)

Mood indigo / I. Mills, B. Bigard, D. Ellington (3:03)

Dancers in love (2:18)

Come Sunday (5:46)

Satin doll / D. Ellington, B. Strayhorn (3:43)

Flirtibird (2:11)

Perdido / J. Tizol (4:35)

C jam blues (4:51)

Things ain't the way they used to be / M. Ellington (2:58)

Happy go lucky local / B. Strayhorn, D. Ellington (2:59)

Something to live for / D. Ellington, B. Strayhorn (2:42)

Creole blues (excerpt from "Creole Rhapsody") (2:29)

Dance of the floreadores (Waltz of the flowers) P. Tchaikovsky, adaptation, D. Ellington (4:05)

Lotus blossom (3:14) ; A midnight in Paris (3:36) / B. Strayhorn

Asphalt jungle theme (2:41)

Battle royal / D. Ellington, B. Strayhorn (5:33)

Duke loves you madly (spoken) (0:11).

Participant:

Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Count Basie, piano ; Arthur Whetsol, Freddie Jenkins, Cootie Williams, Bubber Miley, Louis Metcalf, Jabbo Smith, Rex Stewart, Charlie Allen, Wallace Jones, Shelton Hemphill, Francis Williams, Harold Baker, Dud Bascomb, Al Killian, Nelson, Williams, Dave Burns, Cat Anderson, Fats Ford, Willie Cook, Clark Terry, John Carroll, John Hunt, Jr., Shorty Baker, Gerald Wilson, Eddie Mullins, Bill Berry, Roy Borrowes, Thad Jones, Sonny Cohn, Snooky Young, Lennie Johnson, trumpet ; Tricky Sam Nanton, Juan Tizol, Lawrence Brown, Claude Jones, Tyree Glenn, Wilbur De Paris, Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, Fred Johnson, John Sanders, Bootie (Booty, Boody) Wood, Matthew Gee, Chuck Connors, Louis Blackburn, Henry Coker, Bennie Powell, trombone ; Barney Bigard, Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges, Al Sears, Prince Robinson, Otto Hardwick, Rudy Jackson, Ben Webster, Jimmy Hamilton, Charlie Rouse, Jimmy Forrest, Paul Gonsalves, Willie Smith, Porter Kilbert, Hilton Jefferson, Bill Graham, Marshall Royal, Frank Wess, Frank Foster, Budd Johnson, Charlie Fowlkes, Jimmy Hamilton, reeds ; Fred Guy, banjo, guitar ; Wellman Braud, Billy Taylor, Hayes Alvis, Jimmy Blanton, Oscar Pettiford, Junior Raglan, Wendell Marshall, Jimmy Wood, Joe Benjamin, Aaron Bell, Eddie Jones, bass ; Sonny Greer, Louis Bellson, Sam Woodyard, Jimmy Johnson, Sonny Payne, drums ; Mack Shaw, tuba ; Lonnie Johnson, Freddie Green, guitar ; Ray Nance, trumpet, violin ; Harry Carney, clarinet, saxophone, bass ; Mercer Ellington, French horn ; Baby Cox, Ivie Anderson, Kay Davis, Al Hibbler, Betty Roche, Rosemary Clooney, Mahalia Jackson, vocals.

Credits:

Produced by Henri Renaud.

Notes:

Compact disc.

All material originally released between 1927 and 1975.

Program notes by Robert G. O'Meally included in accompanying booklet.

All compositions by Duke Ellington except as otherwise indicated.

OCLC:

990124746

Publisher Number:

074642728509

827969268421

C3K 92684 Columbia

CK 65842 Columbia (Disc 1)

CK 65843 Columbia (Disc 2)

CK 65844 Columbia (Disc 3)