The Duke Ellington centennial edition : the complete RCA Victor recordings. The complete mid-forties recordings (1944--1946) [and The Seattle concert (1952)].

The Duke Ellington centennial edition : the complete RCA Victor recordings. The complete mid-forties recordings (1944--1946) [and The Seattle concert (1952)].

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
Imprint:New York, N.Y. : RCA Victor, p1999.
Description:discs 14-17 of 24 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:English
Subject:
Jazz -- 1941-1950.
Jazz -- 1951-1960.
Big band music.
Big band music.
Jazz.
Format: E-Resource CD Music recording Audio
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8454605
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Varying Form of Title:Complete RCA Victor recordings
Complete mid-forties recordings (1944-1946)
Seattle concert (1952)
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 14. I ain't got nothin' but the blues ; I'm beginning to see the light ; Don't you know I care ; I didn't know about you
  • Four selections from Black, brown and beige. Work song ; Come Sunday ; The blues ; Three dances
  • Carnegie blues ; Blue cellophane ; Mood to be wooed ; (All of a sudden) My heart sings ; Kissing bug ; Everything but you ; (Otto make that) Riff staccato ; Prelude to a kiss ; Caravan ; Black and tan fantasy ; Mood indigo ; In a sentimental mood
  • disc 15. 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) ; The minor goes muggin' ; I let a song go out of my heart ; Solitude ; Frankie and Johnny ; Jumpin' room only ; Black beauty ; Every hour on the hour
  • Four selections from The perfume suite. Balcony serenade. Strange feeling. Dancers in love. Coloratura
  • 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 ; The wonder of you ; Tonk ; Drawing room blues
  • disc 16. Rockabye river ; Suddenly it jumped ; Transblucency ; Just squeeze me ; Gathering in a clearing ; You don't love me no more ; Pretty woman ; Hey, baby ; (Back home again in) Indiana ; Blue is the night ; Lover man ; Just you, just me ; Beale Street blues ; Memphis blues ; St. Louis blues ; My honey's lovin' arms ; (I don't stand) A ghost of a chance (with you) ; Swamp fire ; Royal Garden blues ; Esquire swank ; Midriff
  • disc 17. Long, long journey ; The one that got away ; Gone with the wind ; Metronome all-out
  • The Seattle concert. Skin deep ; How could you do a thing like that to me? (Sultry serenade) ; Sophisticated lady ; Perdido ; Caravan ; Harlem suite ; The hawk talks
  • Ellington medley. Don't get around much any more. In a sentimental mood. Mood indigo. I'm beginning to see the light. Prelude to a kiss. It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing). Solitude. I let a song go out of my heart
  • Jam with Sam.

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