Jazz ensembles and big band music

You, you darlin' / Scholl, Jerome (3:19) -- Jack the bear (3:15) -- Ko-ko (2:39) -- Morning glory (3:15) -- So far, so good / Lawrence, Mundy, White (2:50) -- Conga brava / Ellington, Tizol (2:54) -- Concerto for Cootie (3:19) -- Me and you (2:54) -- Cotton tail (3:08) -- Never no lament (3:15) --Dusk (3:19) -- Bojangles (A portrait of Bill Robinson) (2:50) -- A portrait of Bert Williams (3:09) -- Blue goose (3:21) -- Harlem air shaft (2:57) -- At a Dixie roadside diner / Leslie, Burke (2:45) -- All too soon / Ellington, Sigman (3:28) -- Rumpus in Richmond (2:46) -- My greatest mistake / Fulton, O'Brien (3:27) -- Sepia panorama (3:20) -- There shall be no night / Shelley, Silver (3:05) -- In a mellotone (3:19) -- Five o'clock whistle / Gannon, Myrow, Irwin (3:18) -- Warm valley (3:20) -- The flaming sword (3:06) -- Across the track blues (2:58) -- Chloe (Song of the swamp) / Kahn, Moret (3:24) --

Composed by Duke Ellington and others ; D. Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, arrangers

(cont.): I never felt this way before / Dubin, Ellington (3:23) -- The sidewalks of New York / Lawlor, Blake (3:14) -- Flamingo / Grouya, Anderson (3:22) -- The girl in my dreams tries to look like you / Mercer Ellington (3:19) -- Take the "A" train / Strayhorn (2:54) -- Jumpin' punkins / Mercer Ellington (3:33) -- John Hardy's wife / Mercer Ellington (3:28) -- Blue serge / Mercer Ellington (3:20) -- After all / Strayhorn (3:19) -- Bakiff / Tizol (3:23) -- Are you sticking? (3:02) -- Just a-settin' and a-rockin' / Ellington, Strayhorn, Gaines (3:33) -- The giddybug gallop (3:29) -- Chocolate shake / Ellington, Webster (2:50) -- I got it bad (and that ain't good) / Ellington, Webster (3:17) -- Clementine / Strayhorn (2:53) -- The brown-skin gal (in the calico gown) / Ellington, Webster (3:06) --

Compact discs

(cont.): Jump for joy / Ellington, Webster, Kuller (2:50) -- Moon over Cuba / Ellington, Tizol (3:09) -- Five o'clock drag (2:49) -- Rocks in my bed (3:06) -- Bli-blip / Ellington, Kuller (3:03) -- Chelsea Bridge / Strayhorn (2:52) -- Raincheck / Strayhorn (2:28) -- What good would it do? / Pepper, James (2:44) -- I don't know what kind of blues I got (3:13) -- Perdido / Tizol (3:08) -- The "C" jam blues (2:37) -- Moon mist / Mercer Ellington (2:58) -- What am I here for? (3:28) -- I don't mind / Strayhorn, Ellington (2:49) -- Someone (3:09) -- My little brown book / Strayhorn (3:13) -- Main stem (2:47) -- Johnny come lately / Strayhorn (2:39) -- Hayfoot strawfoot / Lenk, Drake, McGrane (2:30) -- Sentimental lady (2:58) -- A slip of the lip (can sink a ship) / Henderson, M. Ellington (2:54) -- Sherman shuffle (2:38)

Analog recording

Biographical and program notes by Mark Tucker ([28] p. : ports.) in container

Duke Ellington, piano, with his orchestra ; Jimmy Blanton, bass ; Ben Webster, saxophone

Recorded Mar. 6, 1940-July 28, 1942, in Chicago, Hollywood, and New York