Track Listing
DISC 1: THE EARLY RECORDINGS (1927-1934):
1. If You Can't Hold the Man You Love (Don't Cry When He's Gone)
2. Washington Wabble - (take 1)
3. Washington Wabble - (take 2)
4. Black and Tan Fantasy
5. Washington Wabble
6. Creole Love Call
7. Blues I Love to Sing - (take 1)
8. Blues I Love to Sing - (take 2)
9. Harlem River Quiver - (take 1)
10. Harlem River Quiver - (take 2)
11. Harlem River Quiver - (take 3)
12. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
13. Blue Bubbles - (take 1)
14. Blue Bubbles - (take 2)
15. Black Beauty
16. Jubilee Stomp
17. Got Everything But You
18. Santa Claus, Bring My Man Back
19. I Done Caught You Blues
20. Mooche, The
DISC 2: THE EARLY RECORDINGS (1927-1934):
1. I Can't Give You Anything But Love - (alternate take)
2. No Papa No
3. No Papa No - (alternate take)
4. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
5. Bandanna Babies
6. Diga Diga Do
7. I Must Have That Man
8. St. Louis Blues - (take 1)
9. St. Louis Blues - (take 2)
10. St. Louis Blues - (previously unreleased, take 3)
11. Flaming Youth - (take 1)
12. Flaming Youth - (take 2)
13. Saturday Night Function
14. High Life
15. Doin' the Voom Voom - (previously unreleased, take 1)
16. Doin' the Voom Voom - (take 2)
17. Japanese Dream
18. Harlemania
DISC 3: THE EARLY RECORDINGS (1927-1934):
1. Dicty Glide, The - (take 1)
2. Dicty Glide, The - (take 2)
3. Hot Feet
4. Sloppy Joe - (take 1)
5. Sloppy Joe - (take 2)
6. Stevedore Stomp
7. A Night at the Cotton Club (Part 1): Cotton Club Stomp / Misty Mornin'
8. A Night at the Cotton Club (Part 2): Goin' To Town
9. Cotton Club Stomp
10. Misty Mornin'
11. Arabian Lover
12. Saratoga Swing
13. Mississippi
14. Duke Steps Out, The
15. Haunted Nights
16. Swanee Shuffle
17. Breakfast Dance
18. Jazz Lips
19. March of the Hoodlums
DISC 4: THE EARLY RECORDINGS (1927-1934):
1. Double Check Stomp
2. My Gal Is Good For Nothing But Love
3. I Was Made to Love You
4. Sweet Dreams of Love - (take 1)
5. Sweet Dreams of Love - (take 2)
6. Jungle Nights in Harlem
7. Sweet Jazz O' Mine - (take 1)
8. Sweet Jazz O' Mine - (take 2)
9. Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie
10. Ring Dem Bells - (take 2)
11. Ring Dem Bells - (take 3)
12. Old Man Blues - (take 1)
13. Old Man Blues - (take 2)
14. Old Man Blues - (take 3)
15. Three Little Words - (previously unreleased)
16. Three Little Words
17. Ring Dem Bells
18. Old Man Blues - (take 4)
19. Old Man Blues - (take 6)
20. Hittin' the Bottle - (take 1)
21. Hittin' the Bottle - (take 2)
22. That Lindy Hop
DISC 5: THE EARLY RECORDINGS (1927-1934):
1. You're Lucky to Me
2. Memories of You
3. Nine Little Miles From Ten-Ten-Tennessee - (take 1)
4. Nine Little Miles From Ten-Ten-Tennessee - (take 2)
5. I'm So in Love With You - (previously unreleased, take 1)
6. I'm So in Love With You - (take 2)
7. What Good Am I Without You? - (alternate take)
8. Blue Again
9. When a Black Man's Blue - (alternate take)
10. Mood Indigo
11. What Good Am I Without You?
12. When a Black Man's Blue
13. River and Me, The
14. Keep a Song in Your Soul
15. Sam and Delilah
16. Rockin' in Rhythm - (take 1)
17. Rockin' in Rhythm - (take 2)
18. Creole Rhapsody, Part 1
19. Creole Rhapsody, Part 2 - (take 3)
20. Creole Rhapsody, Part 2 - (previously unreleased, take 2)
DISC 6: THE EARLY RECORDINGS (1927-1934):
1. Limehouse Blues
2. Echoes of the Jungle
3. It's Glory
4. Mystery Song, The
5. Mystery Song, The - (alternate take)
6. Mood Indigo / Hot And Bothered / Creole Love Call
7. Mood Indigo / Hot And Bothered / Creole Love Call - (stereo)
8. East St. Louis Toodle-oo / Lot O' Fingers / Black And Tan Fantasy - (stereo)
9. Dinah
10. Bugle Call Rag
11. Maori
12. Rude Interlude - (take 1)
13. Rude Interlude - (take 2)
14. Dallas Doings - (take 1)
15. Dallas Doings - (take 2)
DISC 7: THE EARLY RECORDINGS (1927-1934):
1. Dear Old Southland - (take 1)
2. Dear Old Southland - (take 2)
3. Daybreak Express - (take 1)
4. Daybreak Express - (take 2)
5. Delta Serenade - (take 1)
6. Delta Serenade - (take 2)
7. Stompy Jones
8. Solitude
9. Blue Feeling
10. Ebony Rhapsody
11. Cocktails For Two - (take 1)
12. Cocktails For Two - (take 2)
13. Live and Love Tonight
14. I Met My Waterloo
15. Troubled Waters - (previously unreleased, take 1)
16. Troubled Waters - (take 2)
17. My Old Flame
DISC 8: THE EARLY FORTIES RECORDINGS (1940-1942):
1. You, You Darlin'
2. Jack the Bear
3. Ko-Ko - (take 1)
4. Ko-Ko - (take 2)
5. Morning Glory
6. So Far, So Good
7. Conga Brava
8. Concerto For Cootie
9. Me and You
10. Bojangles
11. Cotton Tail
12. Never No Lament
13. Blue Goose
14. Dusk - (take 1)
15. Dusk - (take 2)
16. Bojangles
17. Portrait of Bert Williams, A
18. Blue Goose
19. Harlem Air Shaft
20. At a Dixie Roadside Diner
21. All Too Soon
22. Rumpus in Richmond
23. My Greatest Mistake
DISC 9: THE EARLY FORTIES RECORDINGS (1940-1942):
1. Sepia Panorama - (take 1)
2. Sepia Panorama - (take 2)
3. There Shall Be No Night
4. In a Mellotone
5. Five O'Clock Whistle
6. Warm Valley
7. Pitter Panther Patter - (take 1)
8. Pitter Panther Patter - (take 2)
9. Body and Soul - (take 1)
10. Body and Soul - (take 2)
11. Body and Soul - (take 3)
12. Sophisticated Lady
13. Sophisticated Lady
14. Mr. J.B. Blues - (take 1)
15. Mr. J.B. Blues - (take 2)
16. Flaming Sword, The - (take 1)
17. Flaming Sword, The - (take 2)
18. Flaming Sword, The - (take 3)
19. Warm Valley - (take 2)
20. Warm Valley - (take 3)
21. Across the Track Blues
22. Across the Track Blues
23. Chloe (Song of the Swamp)
DISC 10: THE EARLY FORTIES RECORDINGS (1940-1942):
1. I Never Felt This Way Before - (take 1)
2. I Never Felt This Way Before - (take 2)
3. Day Dream
4. Good Queen Bess
5. Good Queen Bess
6. That's the Blues, Old Man
7. Junior Hop - (take 1)
8. Junior Hop - (take 2)
9. Without a Song - (take 1)
10. Without a Song - (take 2)
11. My Sunday Gal
12. Mobile Bay - (take 1)
13. Mobile Bay - (take 2)
14. Linger Awhile - (take 1)
15. Linger Awhile - (take 2)
16. Charlie the Chulo - (take 2)
17. Charlie the Chulo
18. Charlie the Chulo - (take 1)
19. Lament For Javanette
20. Lament For Javanette - (take 1a)
21. Lull at Dawn, A
22. Lull at Dawn, A
23. Lull at Dawn, A - (take 1a)
24. Ready Eddy - (take 1)
DISC 11: THE EARLY FORTIES RECORDINGS (1940-1942):
1. Ready Eddy
2. Ready Eddy
3. Ready Eddy - (take 2)
4. Sidewalks of New York, The
5. Flamingo
6. Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You, The - (take 1)
7. Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You, The - (take 2)
8. Take the "A" Train
9. Jumpin' Punkins - (take 1)
10. Jumpin' Punkins - (take 2)
11. John Hardy's Wife
12. Blue Serge
13. After All
14. Dear Old Southland - (take 1)
15. Dear Old Southland - (take 2)
16. Solitude - (take 1)
17. Solitude - (take 2)
18. Bakiff
19. Are You Sticking? - (take 1)
20. Are You Sticking? - (take 2)
21. Just a-Sittin' and a-Rockin'
22. Giddybug Gallop, The
23. Chocolate Shake
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Ben Webster, Billy Strayhorn, Boston Pops Orchestra, Clark Terry, Johnny Hodges, Lena Horne, Tommy Dorsey | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This limited edition box set comes with a 128 page, 10"x10" full color book featuring rare photographs.
Personnel includes: Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn (arranger, piano); Lena Horne, Ivie Anderson, Herb Jeffries, Al Hibbler (vocals); Harry Carney (soprano, alto & baritone saxophones, clarinet); Johnny Hodges (soprano & alto saxophones, clarinet); Russell Procope (alto saxophone, clarinet); Barney Bigard, Jimmy Hamilton (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Ben Webster, Paul Gonsalves (tenor saxophone); Ray Nance (trumpet, violin); Clark Terry (trumpet, flugelhorn); Arthur Whetsel, William "Cat" Anderson, Cootie Williams, Mercer Ellington (trumpet); Juan Tizol, Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown, Tommy Dorsey (trombone); Fred Guy (guitar, banjo); Jimmy Blanton (bass); Sonny Greer, Louis Bellson, Sam Woodyard (drums); The Boston Pops Orchestra.
Reissue producers: Orrin Keepnews, Steven Lasker.
Includes liner notes by Orrin Keepnews, Dan Morgenstern, Stanley Dance, Stanley Crouch, Brian Priestley, Patricia Willard, Robert P. Crease, Linda Dahl, Will Friedwald, Krin Gabbard, Michael James, Calvin Wilson, Bobby Short, Monsignor John Sanders, Brooks Kerr, Steven Lasker.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
THE COMPLETE RCA VICTOR RECORDINGS 1927-1973 won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Historical Album.
TRACK LIST CONTINUED:
DISC 12: THE EARLY FORTIES RECORDINGS (1940-1942): I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) - (take 1); I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) - (take 2); Clementine; The Brown-Skin Gal (In The Calico Gown); Jump For Joy - (take 1); Jump For Joy - (take 2); Moon Over Cuba; Some Saturday: Subtle Slough; Menelik-The Lion Of Judah - (take 1); Menelik-The Lion Of Judah - (previously unreleased, take 2); Poor Bubber; Squaty Roo; Passion Flower; Things Ain't What They Used To Be; Goin' Out The Back Way; Five O'Clock Drag; Rocks In My Bed; Bil-Blip; Chelsea Bridge; Brown Suede; Noir Bleu; "C" Blues; June.
DISC 13: THE EARLY FORTIES RECORDINGS (1940-1942): Raincheck; What Good Would It Do?; I Don't Know What Kind Of Blues I Got - (take 1); I Don't Know What Kind Of Blues I Got - (previously unreleased, take 2); Chelsea Bridge; Perdido - (take 1); Perdido - (take 2); "C" Jam Blues, The; Moon Mist - (take 1); Moon Mist - (take 2); What Am I Here For?; I Don't Mind - (previously unreleased, take 1); I Don't Mind - (take 2); Someone; My Little Brown Book; Main Stem; Johnny Come Lately; Hayfoot, Strawfoot - (take 1); Hayfoot, Strawfoot - (take 2); Sentimental Lady - (take 1); Sentimental Lady - (take 2); Slip Of The Lip, A; Sherman Shuffle.
DISC 14: THE COMPLETE MID-FORTIES RECORDINGS (1944-1946): I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues; I'm Beginning To See The Light - (take 1); I'm Beginning To See The Light - (take 2); Don't You Know I Care - (take 1); Don't You Know I Care - (take 2); I Didn't Know About You; FOUR SELECTIONS FROM BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE: Work Song (1); Come Sunday (2); Blues, The (3); Three Dances (4); Carnegie Blues; Blue Cellophane; Mood To Be Wooed; My Heart Sings, (All Of A Sudden); Kissing Bug; Everything But You; Riff Staccato, (Otto Make That); Prelude To A Kiss; Caravan; Black And Tan Fantasy; Mood Indigo; In A Sentimental Mood.
DISC 15: THE COMPLETE MID-FORTIES RECORDINGS (1944-1946): It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing); Sophisticated Lady; Tonight I Shall Sleep (With A Smile On My Face); Minor Goes Muggin', The; I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart - (take 1); I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart - (take 2); Solitude; Frankie And Johnny; Jumpin' Room Only; Black Beauty; Every Hour On The Hour; FOUR SELECTIOMS FROM THE PERFUME SUITE: Balcony Serenade (1); Strange Feeling (2); Dancers In Love (3); Coloratura (4) - (take 2); Coloratura (4) - (take 1); Things Ain't What They Used To Be; Tell Ya What I'm Gonna Do; Come To Baby, Do!; I'm Just A Lucky So-And-So; Long, Strong And Consecutive; Wonder Of You, The; Tonk; Drawing Room Blues.
DISC 16: THE COMPLETE MID-FORTIES RECORDINGS (1944-1946): Rockabye ...
Editorial Reviews
...[this] music...argues cogently for Ellington as composer of the century--though not this century. Working collaboratively with musicians of every stripe...Ellington used his orchestra as a cooperative musical community and he explored the sounds of cultures in the Near East, Africa, and elsewhere around the world... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (04/30/1999)
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