Duke Ellington (29 Apr 1899 - 24 May 1974)

Male Person - United States US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader

Works (542)

Arranged

1. Sweet Adeline
2. Clementine
3. Nutcracker Suite
4. Nutcracker Suite: Overture
5. Nutcracker Suite: Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance of the Reed-Pipes)
6. Nutcracker Suite: Peanut Brittle Brigade (March)
7. Nutcracker Suite: Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy)
8. Nutcracker Suite: Entr'acte
9. Nutcracker Suite: The Volga Vouty (Russian Dance)
10. Nutcracker Suite: Chinoiserie (Chinese Dance)
11. Nutcracker Suite: Danse of the Floreadores (Waltz of the Flowers)
12. Nutcracker Suite: Arabesque Cookie (Arabian Dance)

Wrote

1. Who Knows? (1953)
2. Retrospection (1953)
3. B Sharp Blues (1953)
4. Caravan
5. I’m Gonna Go Fishin’
6. Wave Em Off
7. I Don't Mind
8. Blue Reverie
9. Once Upon a Dream
10. Go Away Blues
11. The Mood to Be Wooed
12. Brown Penny
13. Track 360
14. I Never Felt This Way Before
15. Chocolate Shake
16. The Brown-Skin Gal (in the Calico Gown)
17. Jump for Joy
18. Esquire Swank
19. Merry Mending
20. Peckin’
21. The Golden Cress
22. Take the A-Train
23. Tomorrow Mountain
24. My Reward
25. Dancers in Love
26. Melancholia
27. Janet
28. Montevideo
29. December Blue
30. REM Blues
31. Switch Blade
32. Backward Country Boy Blues
33. Hymn to Sorrow
34. A Little Max (Parfait)
35. I'm Checking Out, Go'om Bye
36. Rockabye River
37. Night Creature: I. Blind Bug
38. Night Creature for Jazz Band and Orchestra
39. Night Creature: II. Stalking Monster
40. Night Creature: III. Dazzling Creature
41. Blues I Love to Sing
42. Sweet Chariot
43. Hey, Buddy Bolden
44. My Heart, My Mind, My Everything
45. Your Love Has Faded
46. Rockin’ in Rhythm
47. Orson
48. Blues Reverie
49. I'm Beginning to See the Light
50. Strange Feeling
51. Grievin'
52. It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dream
53. I've Got to Be a Rug Cutter
54. It’s Kind of Lonesome Out Tonight
55. If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?)
56. Misty Morning
57. Lots o’ Fingers
58. Going to Town
59. The Wonder of You
60. Blues
61. New York City Blues
62. Jungle Nights in Harlem
63. Lost in Meditation
64. Killing Myself
65. Build That Railroad
66. Rock City Rock
67. Antidisestablishmentarianismist
68. Skrontch
69. Sloppy Joe
70. Girls
71. Mahalia
72. Juanita
73. Sylvia
74. Lena
75. The Girl’s Suite
76. Ellington Mood

Composed

1. Mood Indigo (1930)
2. It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) (Aug 1931)
3. Sophisticated Lady (1932)
4. Drop Me Off in Harlem (1933)
5. (In My) Solitude (1934)
6. In a Sentimental Mood (1935)
7. In a Sentimental Mood (1935)
8. Crescendo in Blue (1937)
9. Caravan (1937)
10. Azure (1937)
11. I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues (1937)
12. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (1938)
13. Prelude to a Kiss (1938)
14. In a Mellow Tone (1939)
15. All Too Soon (1940)
16. Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (1940)
17. I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good) (1941)
18. Just Squeeze Me (but Don’t Tease Me) (1941)
19. Day Dream (1941)
20. Just A‐Sittin’ and A‐Rockin’ (1941)
21. Rocks in My Bed (1941)
22. “C” Jam Blues (1942)
23. Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me (1943)
24. New World A-Comin’ (1943)
25. Black, Brown, and Beige (1943)
26. I Didn’t Know About You (1944)
27. Don’t You Know I Care? (1944)
28. I’m Beginning to See the Light (1944)
29. Everything but You (1945)
30. I’m Just a Lucky So and So (1945)
31. Happy Go Lucky Local (1946)
32. Liberian Suite: I Like the Sunrise (1947)
33. Liberian Suite: Dance no. 3 (1947)
34. Liberian Suite: Dance no. 5 (1947)
35. Liberian Suite: Dance no. 2 (1947)
36. Liberian Suite: Dance no. 1 (1947)
37. Liberian Suite: Dance no. 4 (1947)
38. A Tone Parallel to Harlem (The Harlem Suite) (1951)
39. Satin Doll (1953) additional
40. Imagine My Frustration (1965)
41. Something 'Bout Believing (19 Feb 1968)
42. The Eighth Veil
43. It's a Glory
44. Oclupaca
45. Eque
46. Tina
47. The Sleeping Lady and the Giant Who Watches Over Her
48. Latin American Sunshine
49. Brasilliance
50. Something Sexual
51. Bass-Ment
52. Spacemen
53. Take the Coltrane
54. Dooji Wooji
55. You Better Know It
56. Meditation
57. Awful Sad
58. The Creeper
59. Sweet Jazz O' Mine
60. Five O'Clock Drag
61. "A" Train
62. Such Sweet Thunder
63. Madness in Great Ones
64. Coloratura
65. Delta Serenade
66. Black, Brown, and Beige
67. Harlem
68. Duke’s Place
69. Ain’t but the One
70. Chez Duke Ellington
71. The Sky Fell Down
72. Tonight I Shall Sleep (With a Smile on My Face)
73. Juniflip
74. Alabamy Home
75. The Mooche
76. Sono
77. Ellington Mix: Mooche Mix
78. Ellington Mix: Moodmixes Indigo
79. Ellington Mix: Mixed Caravan
80. Ellington Mix: Happy Go Lucky Local Mix
81. Ellington Mix: Mix Solitude
82. Ellington Mix: It Don’t Mix
83. Cotton Club Stomp #2
84. Solitude
85. Ring Dem Bells
86. Wal Street Wall
87. Slippery Horn
88. High Life
89. Mount Harissa
90. The Mystery Song
91. Tonk
92. The Single Petal of a Rose
93. Blues for Jerry
94. Fountainebleau Forest
95. It's Bad to Be Forgotten
96. So
97. Searching (Pleading for Love)
98. Bakiff
99. Afro-Bossa (Bula)
100. The Village of the Virgins
101. My Love Is as a Fever (Sonnet 147)
102. Pelican Drag
103. Island Virgin
104. Limbo Jazz
105. Ray Charles' Place
106. Wanderlust
107. You Dirty Dog
108. Self Portrait (of the Bean)
109. The Jeep Is Jumpin'
110. The Ricitic
111. Stompy Jones
112. Azure
113. One More Once
114. Old Man Blues
115. The Biggest and Busiest Intersection
116. Boy Meets Horn
117. Don't Get Down on Your Knees to Pray Until You Have Forgiven Everyone
118. Black, Brown, and Beige: III. Beige: Cy Runs Rock Waltz
119. Father Forgive
120. Black, Brown, and Beige: III. Beige: Beige
121. Hip Chic
122. Buffet Flat
123. The Lord's Prayer
124. The Sergeant Was Shy
125. The Tattooed Bride
126. Black Butterfly
127. Hop Head
128. Down in Our Alley Blues
129. Vagabonds
130. La Plus Belle Africaine
131. The Feeling of Jazz
132. Koko
133. East St. Louis Toodle‐oo
134. Cong-Go
135. Springtime in Africa
136. A Hundred Dreams Ago
137. Blues for Blanton
138. The Controversial Suite, Part 2: Later
139. The Controversial Suite, Part 1: Before My Time
140. Rockin’ in Rhythm
141. Please Forgive Me
142. Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald: Royal Ancestry / All Heart / Beyond Category / Total Jazz
143. The Boys From Harlem
144. Bugle Breaks
145. Asphalt Jungle
146. Guitar Amour (Paris Blues)
147. E.S.P. (Extra Sensory Perception)
148. Take Love Easy
149. The E and D Blues (E for Ella, D for Duke)
150. The Shepherd (Who Watches Over the Night Flock)
151. The Far East Suite
152. Kinda Dukish
153. Praise God
154. Sophisticated Ladies
155. Lady of the Lavender Mist
156. The Stevedore's Serenade
157. Didjeridoo
158. Afrique
159. Acht O'Clock Rock
160. Gong
161. Tang
162. True
163. Hard Way
164. New Orleans Suite
165. Blues for New Orleans
166. Bourbon Street Jingling Jollies
167. Portrait of Louis Armstrong
168. Thanks for the Beautiful Land on the Delta
169. Portrait of Wellman Braud
170. Second Line
171. Portrait of Sidney Bechet
172. Aristocracy a la Jean LaFitte
173. Portrait of Mahalia Jackson
174. Azalea
175. Gypsy Without a Song
176. Je suis mordue
177. Frustration
178. Prelude to a Kiss
179. Praise God and Dance
180. Sophisticated Lady
181. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
182. Come Sunday
183. In a Sentimental Mood
184. I'm So In Love With You
185. Rocky Mountain Blues
186. Big House Blues
187. Lazy Duke
188. Blues of the Vagabond
189. Syncopated Shuffle
190. Sweet Mama
191. Washington Wabble
192. Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue
193. Jack the Bear
194. Ko-Ko
195. Morning Glory
196. Tulip or Turnip
197. Festival Suite
198. Festival Suite: Part I. Festival Junction
199. Festival Suite: Part II. Blues to Be There
200. Festival Suite: Part III. Newport Up
201. Black, Brown, and Beige: I. Black: Work Song
202. Black, Brown, and Beige: I. Black: Come Sunday
203. Black, Brown, and Beige: I. Black: Light
204. Black, Brown, and Beige: II. Brown: West Indian Dance
205. Within Me I Know
206. Mr Gentle and Mr Cool
207. Band Call
208. Time’s a Waistin’
209. Serenade to Sweden
210. Play the Blues and Go
211. Black, Brown, and Beige: II. Brown: Emancipation Celebration
212. Kixx
213. Echoes of the Jungle
214. Allons–y gaiement
215. Back Room Romp
216. Purple Gazelle
217. Magenta Haze
218. Rent Party Blues
219. The River: VI. Riba
220. Creole Rhapsody, Part 1
221. Creole Rhapsody, Part 2
222. Rainy Nights
223. Bli-Blip
224. The River: II. Meander
225. Gimme a Pigfoot
226. Jig Walk
227. The Star-Crossed Lovers
228. Warm Valley
229. The Twitch
230. Blutopia
231. Suddenly It Jumped
232. Pitter Panther Patter
233. Blue Cellophane
234. Blue Piano
235. Blue Rose
236. Come Sunday
237. To the Bitter
238. Sempre amore
239. Smada
240. Swamp Goo
241. Rue Bleue
242. All Heart
243. Happy Reunion
244. Night Time
245. The Swinger's Jump
246. Blues in Orbit
247. African Flower
248. The Queen's Suite
249. The Goutelas Suite
250. West Indian Pancake
251. Harlem Speaks
252. Rock Skippin' at the Blue Note
253. Never No Lament
254. Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie
255. Black and Tan Fantasy
256. The River: III. Giggling Rapids
257. The River: IV. Lake
258. Melancholia
259. The River: V. Vortex
260. Suburbanite
261. Night Creature (Second Movement): Stalking Monster
262. Emperor Jones
263. Saddest Tale
264. Nu ind’n de går
265. My Love
266. Supreme Being
267. Suburban Beauty
268. On a Turquoise Cloud
269. Jump Lester Jump
270. Lightnin'
271. The River
272. Reflections
273. The River: I. Spring
274. Take It Easy
275. Harlem Twist (East St. Louis Toodle-Oo)
276. Portrait of Bert Williams
277. The Giddybug Gallop
278. I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got
279. Someone
280. Main Stem
281. Sentimental Lady
282. Sherman Shuffle
283. Moon Over Cuba
284. The Perfume Suite
285. Strange Feeling
286. Chromatic Love Affair
287. Tutti for Cootie
288. Bojangels
289. Chinoiserie
290. Black, Brown, and Beige, Part VI (23rd Psalm)
291. Fantazm
292. Brown Betty
293. Overture to a Jam Session, Parts 1 & 2
294. The Beautiful Indians
295. Hiawatha
296. Minnehaha
297. Golden Feather
298. Flippant Flurry
299. Battle Royal
300. Wild Man Moore
301. B D B
302. Creole Blues
303. Best Wishes
304. Broadway Babe
305. Hodge Podge
306. Tourist Point of View
307. Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah)
308. Isfahan
309. Depk
310. Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues)
311. Agra
312. Amad
313. Ad Lib on Nippon
314. The UWIS Suite
315. The Queen's Suite: Lightning Bugs and Frogs
316. The Queen's Suite: Le Sucrier Velours
317. The Queen's Suite: Northern Lights
318. Black, Brown, and Beige: III. Beige: Sugar Hill Penthouse
319. The Queen's Suite: Apes and Peacocks
320. The Goutelas Suite: Fanfare
321. The Goutelas Suite: Goutelas
322. Conga Brava
323. In a Sentimental Mood
324. The Goutelas Suite: Get-With-Itness
325. The Goutelas Suite: Something
326. The Goutelas Suite: Having at It
327. The Goutelas Suite: Fanfare
328. The UWIS Suite: UWIS
329. The UWIS Suite: Klop
330. The UWIS Suite: Loco Madi
331. Harlem
332. Black, Brown, and Beige: I. Black
333. Black, Brown, and Beige: II. Brown
334. Black, Brown, and Beige: III. Beige
335. Three Black Kings: I. King of the Magi
336. Three Black Kings: II. King Solomon
337. Three Black Kings: III. Martin Luther King
338. Three Black Kings
339. Dusk
340. Bojangles
341. Blue Goose
342. Harlem Air Shaft
343. Blue Belles of Harlem
344. I'm Afraid
345. Take All My Loves
346. Rumpus in Richmond
347. Sepia Panorama
348. The Flaming Sword
349. Across the Track Blues
350. Are You Sticking?
351. T.G.T.T. (Too Good to Title)
352. Happy Anatomy
353. Midnight Indigo
354. Stomp, Look and Listen
355. Unbooted Character
356. Lonesome Lullaby
357. Rubber Bottom
358. The River: VII. Village Virgins
359. Braggin’ In Brass
360. Krum Elbow Blues
361. Sultry Sunset
362. Black, Brown, and Beige, Part II
363. Black, Brown, and Beige, Part III (Light)
364. Copout Extension
365. Duael Fuel
366. Black Beauty
367. Swampy River
368. Move Over
369. Hot and Bothered
370. The Blues With a Feelin'
371. Goin' to Town
372. Misty Mornin'
373. Mississippi Moan
374. Jubilee Stomp
375. Hey Baby
376. Paris Blues
377. Diminuendo in Blue
378. Wailing Interval (Blow by Blow)
379. Limbo Jazz
380. Launching Pad
381. Doin' the Voom Voom
382. Heaven
383. Stevie
384. Angelica
385. What Am I Here For
386. Stevie / Mr. P.C.
387. Concerto for Cootie
388. Me and You
389. Pie Eye's Blues
390. Blues in Blueprint
391. The Swingers Get the Blues Too
392. Villes Ville Is the Place, Man
393. Low Key Lightly
394. La Caravane
395. Echoes of Harlem
396. Gör inget förr'ns du hör från mig
397. Idiom '59
398. Flirtibird
399. Ça fait mal (J'suis mordue)
400. The Dicty Glide
401. Cotton Club Stomp
402. Blue Bubbles
403. Black, Brown, and Beige, Part I
404. The Gal From Joe’s
405. Money Jungle
406. Fleurette africaine
407. Very Special
408. Warm Valley
409. Wig Wise
410. Don't Miss You at All
411. The Blues
412. Love You Madly
413. Johnny Hodges Medley: Wanderlust / Junior Hop / Jeep's Blues / Squatty Roo / The Mood to Be Wooed
414. Creole Love Call
415. Misfit Blues
416. Schwiphti
417. Lay-By
418. Cotton Tail
419. Stevedore Stomp
420. Jeep’s Blues
421. Sweet and Pungent
422. Cop-Out
423. V.I.P.'s Boogie
424. Jam With Sam
425. Jones
426. Harlem
427. Doo Uap, Doo Uap, Doo Uap
428. Petlik leedi
429. Sunset and the Mocking Bird
430. Almighty God
431. Fugue-A-Ditty
432. Jam-A-Ditty
433. It's Freedom
434. Saturday Night Function
435. Caliné (Silk Lace)
436. “C” Jam Blues
437. Reflections in D
438. Black, Brown, and Beige, Part V (Come Sunday Interlude)
439. Black, Brown, and Beige: II. Brown: The Blues

Lyrics

1. Rocks in My Bed (1941)
2. Praise God and Dance
3. Azalea
4. Me and You
5. Cotton Tail
6. Hey Baby
7. Creole Love Call
8. Come Sunday
9. You Better Know It
10. Heaven
11. Almighty God
12. Petlik leedi
13. Blue Rose

Dedicated Works

1. The Duke
2. Such Science (for Duke Ellington and Muhammad Ali)