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The Centennial Edition: Complete RCA Victor Recordings: 1927-1973 Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

Release: 27 Apr 1999 United States, Language: English, Status: Official
Format: CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD + CD, Tracks: 462, Length: 3:24:27, Barcode: [none]
Release type: Album - Compilation

Contents

CD #1
1 If You Can't Hold the Man You Love (Don't Cry When He's Gone) 2:51
2 Washington Wabble (take 1) 2:48
3 Washington Wabble (take 2) 2:50
4 Black and Tan Fantasy 3:10
5 Washington Wabble 3:04
6 Creole Love Call 3:15
7 Blues I Love to Sing (take 1) 3:08
8 Blues I Love to Sing (take 2) (alternate take) 3:11
9 Harlem River Quiver (take 1) 2:45
10 Harlem River Quiver (take 2) 2:46
11 Harlem River Quiver (take 3) 2:48
12 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo 3:39
13 Blue Bubbles (take 1) 3:11
14 Blue Bubbles (take 2) 3:15
15 Black Beauty 2:53
16 Jubilee Stomp 2:35
17 Got Everything but You 2:59
18 Santa Claus, Bring My Man Back 3:00
19 I Done Caught You Blues 2:56
20 The Mooche 3:31
CD #2
1 I Can't Give You Anything But Love (alternate take) 3:19
2 No, Papa, No 3:21
3 No, Papa, No (alternate take) 3:21
4 I Can't Give You Anything But Love 3:05
5 Bandanna Babies 3:18
6 Diga Diga Do 2:58
7 I Must Have That Man! 3:22
8 St. Louis Blues (take 1) 4:11
9 St. Louis Blues (take 2) 4:15
10 St. Louis Blues (take 3) 4:20
11 Flaming Youth (take 1) 3:15
12 Flaming Youth (take 2) 3:15
13 Saturday Night Function 3:03
14 High Life 3:06
15 Doin' the Voom Voom (take 1) 3:08
16 Doin' the Voom Voom (take 2) 3:07
17 Japanese Dream 3:32
18 Harlemania 2:55
CD #3
1 The Dicty Glide (take 1) 3:11
2 The Dicty Glide (take 2) 3:14
3 Hot Feet 2:40
4 Sloppy Joe (take 1) 3:16
5 Sloppy Joe (take 2) 3:15
6 Stevedore Stomp 2:48
7 A Night at the Cotton Club, Part 1 / Cotton Club Stomp / Misty Mornin' 3:48
8 A Night at the Cotton Club, Part 2 / Goin' to Town / Untitled Interlude / Freeze and Melt 4:31
9 Cotton Club Stomp 2:57
10 Misty Mornin' 3:08
11 Arabian Lover 2:50
12 Saratoga Swing 2:50
13 Mississippi 3:21
14 The Duke Steps Out 3:15
15 Haunted Nights 3:14
16 Swanee Shuffle 3:19
17 Breakfast Dance 3:06
18 Jazz Lips 3:17
19 March of the Hoodlums 2:54
CD #4
1 Double Check Stomp 2:54
2 My Gal Is Good for Nothing but Love 3:00
3 I Was Made to Love You 2:59
4 Sweet Dreams of Love (take 1) 3:23
5 Sweet Dreams of Love (take 2) 3:25
6 Jungle Nights in Harlem 2:54
7 Sweet Jazz o' Mine (take 1) 2:42
8 Sweet Jazz o' Mine (take 2) 2:40
9 Shout 'em Aunt Tillie 2:55
10 Ring Dem Bells (take 2) 2:53
11 Ring Dem Bells (take 3) 2:53
12 Old Man Blues (take 1) 3:03
13 Old Man Blues (take 2) 3:04
14 Old Man Blues (take 3) 3:04
15 Three Little Words 3:04
16 Three Little Words 3:05
17 Ring Dem Bells 2:58
18 Old Man Blues (take 4) 3:09
19 Old Man Blues (take 6) 3:05
20 Hittin' the Bottle (take 1) 3:01
21 Hittin' the Bottle (take 2) 2:58
22 That Lindy Hop 2:54
CD #5
1 You're Lucky to Me 2:58
2 Memories of You 3:15
3 Nine Little Miles From Ten-Ten-Tennessee (take 1) 3:26
4 Nine Little Miles From Ten-Ten-Tennessee (take 2) 3:25
5 I'm So in Love With You (take 1) 3:34
6 I'm So in Love With You (take 2) 3:35
7 What Good Am I Without You? (alternate take) 2:57
8 Blue Again 3:15
9 When a Black Man's Blue (alternate take) 3:06
10 Mood Indigo 3:09
11 What Good Am I Without You? 2:51
12 When a Black Man's Blue 3:01
13 The River and Me 3:17
14 Keep a Song in Your Soul 2:41
15 Sam and Delilah 3:30
16 Rockin' in Rhythm (take 1) 2:56
17 Rockin' in Rhythm (take 2) 2:53
18 Creole Rhapsody, Part 1 4:01
19 Creole Rhapsody, Part 2 (take 3) 4:23
20 Creole Rhapsody, Part 2 (take 2) 4:21
CD #6
1 Limehouse Blues 3:12
2 Echoes of the Jungle 3:28
3 It's Glory 3:10
4 The Mystery Song 3:13
5 The Mystery Song (alternate take) 3:13
6 Mood Indigo / Hot And Bothered / Creole Love Call 7:39
7 Mood Indigo / Hot and Bothered / Creole Love Call (stereo version) 7:43
8 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo / Lot o' Fingers / Black and Tan Fantasy (stereo version) 7:34
9 Dinah 2:55
10 Bugle Call Rag 3:04
11 Maori (A Samoan Dance) 3:26
12 Rude Interlude (take 1) 3:12
13 Rude Interlude (take 2) 3:09
14 Dallas Doings (take 1) 2:59
15 Dallas Doings (take 2) 2:54
CD #7
1 Dear Old Southland (take 1) 3:36
2 Dear Old Southland (take 2) 3:27
3 Daybreak Express (take 1) 2:57
4 Daybreak Express (take 2) 2:58
5 Delta Serenade (take 1) 3:16
6 Delta Serenade (take 2) 3:18
7 Stompy Jones 3:03
8 Solitude 3:32
9 Blue Feeling 3:12
10 Ebony Rhapsody 3:23
11 Cocktails for Two (take 1) 3:28
12 Cocktails for Two (take 2) 3:26
13 Live and Love Tonight 3:18
14 I Met My Waterloo 3:30
15 Troubled Waters (take 1) 3:32
16 Troubled Waters (take 2) 3:30
17 My Old Flame 3:21
CD #8
1 You, You Darlin' 3:21
2 Jack the Bear 3:17
3 Ko-Ko (take 1) 2:39
4 Ko-Ko (take 2) 2:42
5 Morning Glory 3:17
6 So Far, So Good 2:53
7 Conga Brava 2:58
8 Concerto for Cootie 3:19
9 Me and You 2:54
10 Bojangles (alternate take) 2:45
11 Cotton Tail 3:12
12 Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Anymore) 3:19
13 Blue Goose 3:21
14 Dusk (take 1) 3:20
15 Dusk (take 2) 3:16
16 Bojangles 2:53
17 A Portrait of Bert Williams 3:09
18 Blue Goose 3:22
19 Harlem Air-Shaft 2:59
20 At a Dixie Roadside Diner 2:49
21 All Too Soon 3:30
22 Rumpus in Richmond 2:49
23 My Greatest Mistake 3:23
CD #9
1 Sepia Panorama (take 1) 3:25
2 Sepia Panorama (take 2) 3:23
3 There Shall Be No Night 3:12
4 In a Mellow Tone 3:16
5 Five O'Clock Whistle 3:18
6 Warm Valley 3:14
7 Pitter Panther Patter (take 1) 3:08
8 Pitter Panther Patter (take 2) 3:02
9 Body and Soul (take 1) 3:05
10 Body and Soul (take 2) 3:07
11 Body and Soul (take 3) 3:10
12 Sophisticated Lady 2:55
13 Sophisticated Lady 2:46
14 Mr. J. B. Blues (take 1) 3:03
15 Mr. J. B. Blues (take 2) 3:12
16 The Flaming Sword (take 1) 3:22
17 The Flaming Sword (take 2) 3:07
18 The Flaming Sword (take 3) 3:10
19 Warm Valley (take 2) 3:20
20 Warm Valley (take 3) 3:22
21 Across the Track Blues 3:01
22 Across the Track Blues 2:59
23 Chloe (Song of the Swamp) 3:23
CD #10
1 I Never Felt This Way Before (take 1) 3:33
2 I Never Felt This Way Before (take 2) 3:35
3 Day Dream 2:57
4 Good Queen Bess 3:00
5 Good Queen Bess (alternate take) 3:02
6 That's the Blues, Old Man 2:56
7 Junior Hop (take 1) 3:05
8 Junior Hop (take 2) 3:09
9 Without a Song (take 1) 2:45
10 Without a Song (take 2) 2:46
11 My Sunday Gal 3:09
12 Mobile Bay (take 1) 3:05
13 Mobile Bay (take 2) 3:04
14 Linger Awhile (take 1) 3:27
15 Linger Awhile (take 2) 3:25
16 Charlie the Chulo (take 2) 3:09
17 Charlie the Chulo (alternate take) 0:48
18 Charlie the Chulo (take 1) 3:03
19 Lament for Javanette (alternate take) 3:17
20 Lament for Javanette (take 1a) 2:51
21 A Lull at Dawn (alternate take) 4:14
22 A Lull at Dawn (alternate take) 3:37
23 A Lull at Dawn (take 1a) 3:28
24 Ready Eddy (take 1) 3:11
CD #11
1 Ready Eddy (breakdown) 2:32
2 Ready Eddy (false start) 0:16
3 Ready Eddy (take 2) 3:08
4 The Sidewalks of New York 3:15
5 Flamingo 3:24
6 The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You (take 1) 3:19
7 The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You (take 2) 3:24
8 Take the "A" Train 2:56
9 Jumpin' Punkins (take 1) 3:41
10 Jumpin' Punkins (take 2) 3:33
11 John Hardy's Wife 3:29
12 Blue Serge 3:22
13 After All 3:22
14 Dear Old Southland (take 1) 3:19
15 Dear Old Southland (take 2) 3:25
16 Solitude (take 1) 3:30
17 Solitude (take 2) 3:16
18 Bakiff 3:25
19 Are You Sticking? (take 1) 3:05
20 Are You Sticking? (take 2) 3:04
21 Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin' 3:35
22 The Giddybug Gallop 3:32
23 Chocolate Shake 2:52
CD #12
1 I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) (take 1) 3:21
2 I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) (take 2) 3:21
3 Clementine 3:00
4 The Brown-Skin Girl (In the Calico Gown) 3:10
5 Jump for Joy (take 1) 2:53
6 Jump for Joy (take 2) 2:58
7 Moon Over Cuba 3:15
8 Some Saturday 3:00
9 Subtle Slough 3:15
10 Menelik: The Lion of Judah (take 1) 3:17
11 Menelik: The Lion of Judah (take 2) 3:16
12 Poor Bubber 3:18
13 Squatty Roo 2:23
14 Passion Flower 3:08
15 Things Ain't What They Used to Be 3:38
16 Goin' Out the Back Way 2:43
17 Five O'Clock Drag 3:13
18 Rocks in My Bed 3:08
19 Bli-Blip 3:06
20 Chelsea Bridge (alternate take) 3:00
21 Brown Suede 3:07
22 Noir Bleu (alternate take) 3:13
23 "C" Jam Blues 2:52
24 June (alternate take) 3:12
CD #13
1 Raincheck 2:31
2 What Good Would It Do? 2:47
3 I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got (take 1) 3:15
4 I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got (take 2) 3:21
5 Chelsea Bridge 2:55
6 Perdido (take 1) 3:09
7 Perdido (take 2) 3:09
8 "C" Jam Blues 2:38
9 Moon Mist (take 1) 2:59
10 Moon Mist (take 2) 2:59
11 What Am I Here For? 3:26
12 I Don't Mind (take 1) 2:48
13 I Don't Mind (take 2) 2:50
14 Someone 3:09
15 My Little Brown Book 3:13
16 Main Stem 2:50
17 Johnny Come Lately 2:41
18 Hayfoot, Strawfoot (take 1) 2:34
19 Hayfoot, Strawfoot (take 2) 2:34
20 Sentimental Lady (take 1) 3:03
21 Sentimental Lady (take 2) 3:02
22 A Slip of the Lip (Can Sink a Ship) 2:57
23 Sherman Shuffle 2:37
CD #14
1 I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues 2:41
2 I'm Beginning to See the Light (take 1) 3:12
3 I'm Beginning to See the Light (take 2) 3:11
4 Don't You Know I Care (or Don't You Care to Know) (take 1) 3:06
5 Don't You Know I Care (or Don't You Care to Know) (take 2) 2:58
6 I Didn't Know About You 2:44
7 Black, Brown and Beige: Work Song 4:35
8 Black, Brown and Beige: Come Sunday 4:30
9 Black, Brown and Beige: The Blues 4:32
10 Black, Brown and Beige: Three Dances 4:34
11 Carnegie Blues 2:47
12 Blue Cellophane 2:54
13 The Mood to Be Wooed 2:58
14 (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings 2:51
15 Kissing Bug 3:01
16 Everything but You 2:51
17 (Otto Make That) Riff Staccato 3:04
18 Prelude to a Kiss 3:00
19 Caravan 2:46
20 Black and Tan Fantasy 2:48
21 Mood Indigo 2:47
22 In a Sentimental Mood 3:01
CD #15
1 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 3:00
2 Sophisticated Lady 2:39
3 Tonight I Shall Sleep (With a Smile on My Face) 2:55
4 The Minor Goes Muggin' 3:02
5 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (take 1) 3:03
6 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (take 2) 3:02
7 Solitude 3:04
8 Frankie and Johnny 3:02
9 Jumpin' Room Only 2:56
10 Black Beauty 2:49
11 Every Hour on the Hour (I Fall in Love With You) 3:04
12 The Perfume Suite: Balcony Serenade 3:09
13 The Perfume Suite: Strange Feeling 3:13
14 The Perfume Suite: Dancers in Love 2:20
15 The Perfume Suite: Coloratura (take 2) 2:57
16 The Perfume Suite: Coloratura (take 1) 2:58
17 Things Ain't What They Used to Be 3:07
18 Tell Ya What I'm Gonna Do 2:47
19 Come to Baby, Do! 2:49
20 I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So 3:09
21 Long, Strong, and Consecutive 2:54
22 The Wonder of You 2:45
23 Tonk 2:47
24 Drawing Room Blues 3:37
CD #16
1 Rockabye River 3:02
2 Suddenly It Jumped 2:47
3 Transblucency 3:00
4 Just Squeeze Me (but Don't Tease Me) 3:20
5 A Gathering in a Clearing 3:10
6 You Don't Love Me No More 3:25
7 Pretty Woman 2:45
8 Hey, Baby 2:48
9 (Back Home Again in) Indiana 2:48
10 Blue Is the Night 3:06
11 Lover Man (take 1) 3:19
12 Lover Man (take 2) 3:18
13 Just You, Just Me 2:52
14 Beale Street Blues 2:52
15 Memphis Blues 3:04
16 St. Louis Blues 2:58
17 My Honey's Lovin' Arms 3:09
18 (I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance (With You) 3:02
19 Swamp Fire 2:51
20 Royal Garden Blues 3:07
21 Esquire Swank 3:27
22 Midriff 3:15
CD #17
1 Long, Long Journey 4:31
2 The One That Got Away 4:23
3 Gone With the Wind 4:35
4 Metronome All-Out 4:16
5 Skin Deep 7:34
6 How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me? (Sultry Serenade) 3:51
7 Sophisticated Lady 6:13
8 Perdido 4:38
9 Caravan 4:13
10 Harlem Suite 15:17
11 The Hawk Talks 2:53
12 Ellington Medley: Don't Get Around Much Anymore / In a Sentimental Mood 6:54
13 Jam With Sam 3:39
CD #18
1 In the Beginning God 20:02
2 Tell Me It's the Truth 2:46
3 Come Sunday 3:53
4 The Lord's Prayer 2:43
5 Come Sunday 6:05
6 Will You Be There? / Ain't but the One 4:42
7 New World A-Comin' 8:26
8 David Danced (Before the Lord With All His Might) 6:33
9 Ninety Nine Percent 1:54
10 My Mother, My Father and Love 3:56
11 New World A-Comin' (alternate take) 8:20
12 A Christmas Surprise (first performance) 3:53
13 A Christmas Surprise (second performance) 3:27
CD #19
1 Praise God 3:14
2 Supreme Being 11:49
3 Heaven 4:58
4 Something 'Bout Believing 8:15
5 Almighty God 6:36
6 The Shepherd 7:12
7 It's Freedom 13:05
8 Meditation 3:13
9 The Biggest and Busiest Intersection 4:00
10 T.G.T.T. (Too Good to Title) 2:27
11 Don't Get Down on Your Knees to Pray Until You Have Forgotten Everyone 5:18
CD #20
1 Father Forgive 2:51
2 Praise God and Dance 11:02
3 Introduction by Sir Colin Crowe 1:33
4 Introduction by Duke Ellington 0:59
5 The Lord's Prayer / My Love 7:48
6 Is God a Three-Letter Word for Love?, Part I 4:27
7 Is God a Three-Letter Word for Love?, Part II 3:45
8 The Brotherhood 5:34
9 Hallelujah 3:29
10 Every Man Prays in His Own Language 11:08
11 Ain't Nobody Nowhere Nothin' Without God 4:17
12 The Majesty of God 7:13
CD #21
1 Far East Suite: Tourist Point of View (take 7) 5:10
2 Far East Suite: Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) (take 12) 3:19
3 Far East Suite: Isfahan (take 1) 4:07
4 Far East Suite: Depk 2:42
5 Far East Suite: Mount Harissa 7:42
6 Far East Suite: Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) 3:01
7 Far East Suite: Agra 2:37
8 Far East Suite: Amad (take 3) 4:28
9 Far East Suite: Ad Lib on Nippon 11:36
10 Far East Suite: Tourist Point of View (take 5) 4:59
11 Far East Suite: Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) (take 8) 3:10
12 Far East Suite: Isfahan (take 2) 4:13
13 Far East Suite: Amad (take 5) 4:15
CD #22
1 Take the ''A'' Train 4:40
2 I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) 2:36
3 Perdido 3:14
4 Mood Indigo 5:10
5 Black and Tan Fantasy 5:12
6 The Twitch 3:11
7 Solitude 3:36
8 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me 1:55
9 The Mooche 5:36
10 Sophisticated Lady 3:02
11 Creole Love Call 3:56
12 Caravan 5:27
13 Wings & Things 1:59
14 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me 1:58
15 House of Lords 5:36
16 The Second Portrait of the Lion 4:10
17 Take the ''A'' Train 2:24
18 Caravan 4:37
19 Mood Indigo 2:55
20 Love Scene 2:24
CD #23
1 The Mooche 3:24
2 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart 2:47
3 I'm Beginning to See the Light 2:39
4 Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me 2:44
5 Sophisticated Lady 3:21
6 Timon of Athens March 3:08
7 Solitude 3:00
8 I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) 4:11
9 Satin Doll 2:34
10 Single Petal of a Rose 2:43
11 Snibor 4:16
12 Boo-Dah 3:28
13 Blood Count 4:18
14 U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group) 3:14
15 Charpoy 3:08
16 After All 3:52
17 The Intimacy of the Blues 2:58
18 Raincheck (take 6) 4:37
19 Raincheck (take 4) 5:22
20 Day Dream 4:25
21 Rock Skippin' at the Blue Note 3:00
CD #24
1 All Day Long 2:58
2 Lotus Blossom (take 1) 3:56
3 Lotus Blossom 4:57
4 Smada (take 3) 3:21
5 Smada (take 4) 3:20
6 Midriff 4:35
7 My Little Brown Book 4:13
8 Acht O'Clock Rock 2:26
9 The Piano Player 2:56
10 Creole Love Call 4:29
11 Don't You Know I Care (or Don't You Care to Know) 4:30
12 I Can't Get Started With You 5:53
13 New York, New York 3:01
14 Pitter Panther Patter 2:27
15 How High the Moon 2:17
16 Basin Street Blues 2:59
17 Tiger Rag 3:50
18 Soso 3:43
19 Meditation 3:24
20 Mecuria, the Lion 4:01

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