The Duke Ellington centennial edition : the complete RCA Victor recordings. The early forties recordings (1940-1942).

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
Imprint:New York, N.Y. : RCA Victor, p1999.
Description:discs 8-13 of 24 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:English
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Format: CD Audio Music recording
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8454604
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Varying Form of Title:Complete RCA Victor recordings
Early forties recordings (1940-1942)
Other authors / contributors:Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Notes:[Set includes] "all known recordings by Duke Ellington for RCA Victor ... all alternate takes and previously unreleased tracks"--Insert.
Compact discs; in separate envelopes in box (28 x 28 x 5 cm.).
Book containing durations, credits, details of the recording sessions, discographies, and essays by Dan Morgenstern, Brian Priestley, Stanley Crouch, Stanley Dance, Patricia Willard, Steven Lasker, Orrin Keepnews and others (121 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.) in box.
Duke Ellington and his orchestra; other instrumentalists, vocalists, and ensembles.
Publisher's no.:09026-63386-2 RCA Victor
Table of Contents:
  • disc 8. You, you darlin' ; Jack the bear ; Ko-ko ; Morning glory ; So far, so good ; Conga brava ; Concerto for Cootie ; Me and you ; Bojangles ; Cotton tail ; Never no lament ; Blue goose ; Dusk ; A portrait of Bert Williams ; Harlem air-shaft ; At a Dixie roadside diner ; All too soon ; Rumpus in Richmond ; My greatest mistake
  • disc 9. Sepia panorama ; There shall be no night ; In a mellotone ; Five o'clock whistle ; Warm valley ; Pitter panther patter ; Body and soul ; Sophisticated lady ; Mr. J.B. blues ; The flaming sword ; Across the track blues ; Chloe (song of the swamp)
  • disc 10. I never felt this way before ; Day dream ; Good Queen Bess ; That's the blues, old man ; Junior hop ; Without a song ; My Sunday gal ; Mobile Bay ; Linger awhile ; Charlie the Chulo ; Lament for Javanette ; A lull at dawn ; Ready Eddy
  • disc 11. Ready Eddy ; The sidewalks of New York ; Flamingo ; The girl in my dreams tries to look like you ; Take the "A" train ; Jumpin' punkins ; John Hardy's wife ; Blue serge ; After all ; Dear old Southland ; Solitude ; Bakiff ; Are you sticking? ; Just a-sittin' and a-rockin' ; The giddybug gallop ; Chocolate shake
  • disc 12. I got it bad (and that ain't good) ; Clementine ; The brown-skin gal (in the calico gown) ; Jump for joy ; Moon over Cuba ; Some Saturday ; Subtle slough ; Menelik : the lion of Judah ; 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 ; Bli-blip ; Chelsea Bridge ; Brown suede ; Noir bleu ; "C" blues ; June
  • disc 13. Raincheck ; What good would it do? ; I don't know what kind of blues I got ; Chelsea Bridge ; Perdido ; The "C" jam blues ; Moon mist ; What am I here for? ; I don't mind ; Someone ; My little brown book ; Main stem ; Johnny come lately ; Hayfoot, strawfoot ; Sentimental lady ; A slip of the lip ; Sherman shuffle.