CDs with: Ellington, Duke

An American celebration, vol. 2

A tone parallel to Harlem / Duke Ellington -- Serenade after Plato's Symposium / Leonard Bernstein -- Dramatic overture / Gunther Schuller -- Concertato "Moby Dick" / Peter Mennin -- Orchestral variations / Aaron Copland -- Candide overture / Leonard Bernstein -- Dance variations / Morton Gould -- Medea's meditation and dance of vengeance / Samuel Barber -- The world of Paul Klee / David Diamond -- Symphony no. 3 / Ned Rorem -- Introduction and good-byes / Lukas Foss -- Nonet for strings / Aaron Copland -- Concerto for orchestra / Elliott Carter -- Star-child / George Crumb -- To Vishnu / Alan Hovhaness -- Lamia (revised version) / Jacob Druckman -- Sequoia / Joan Tower -- Tehillim (orchestral version) / Steve Reich -- Short ride on a fast machine / John Adams -- Trombone concerto / Christopher Rouse -- Symphony no. 3 / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich -- Concerto for clarinet and orchestra / William Bolcom -- The stars and stripes forever / John Philip Sousa.

CD 2414

Anatomy of a murder / Duke Ellington.

Main title and Anatomy of a murder (3:56) -- Flirtibird (2:12) -- Way early subtone (3:56) -- Hero to zero (2:10) -- Low key lightly (3:37) -- Happy anatomy (2:33) -- Midnight indigo (2:43) -- Almost cried (2:24) -- Sunswept Sunday (1:51) -- Grace valse (2:30) -- Happy anatomy (1:28) -- Haupe (2:38) -- Upper and outest (2:19) -- Anatomy of a murder (2:43) -- Merrily rolling along ; Sunswept Sunday (3:47) -- Beer garden (1:51) -- Happy anatomy (2:38) -- Polly (3:36) -- Polly (3:54) -- Happy anatomy (2:13) -- More blues (2:12) -- Almost cried (2:24) -- Sound track music: Anatomy of a murder (2:28) -- Anatomy of a murder (2:35) -- The grand finale (10:47) -- Pause track (0:06).

CD 2744

Anatomy of a murder. Selections

Main title and Anatomy of a murder (3:56) -- Flirtibird (2:12) -- Way early subtone (3:56) -- Hero to zero (2:10) -- Low key lightly (3:37) -- Happy anatomy (2:33) -- Midnight indigo (2:43) -- Almost cried (2:24) -- Sunswept Sunday (1:51) -- Grace valse (2:30) -- Happy anatomy (1:28) -- Haupe (2:38) -- Upper and outest (2:19) -- Anatomy of a murder (2:43) -- Merrily rolling along ; Sunswept Sunday (3:47) -- Beer garden (1:51) -- Happy anatomy (2:38) -- Polly (3:36) -- Polly (3:54) -- Happy anatomy (2:13) -- More blues (2:12) -- Almost cried (2:24) -- Sound track music: Anatomy of a murder (2:28) -- Anatomy of a murder (2:35) -- The grand finale (10:47) -- Pause track (0:06).

CD 2744

Black piano : a treasury of works for solo piano by black composers.

Three visions / William Grant Still (10:46) -- The cuckoo / Howard Swanson (2:55) -- In the bottoms / Robert Nathaniel Dett (17:24) -- Invention in G minor (1:54) ; Invention in A minor (:57) ; Invention in C major (1:19) / Ulysses Kay -- Big bunch of roses / John Wesley Work, Jr. (2:07) -- Seven traceries / William Grant Still (20:16) -- The gentle waltz / Oscar Peterson ; arr. D. McErlain (3:22) -- Come Sunday / Duke Ellington ; arr. D. McErlain (4:41) -- Valse-suite : opus 71 / Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (8:07).

CD 2578

Clifford Brown and Max Roach.

Delilah (8:03) -- Parisian thoroughfare (7:15) -- Daahoud (4:01) -- Joy spring (6:48) -- Jordu (7:42) -- The blues walk (6:44) -- What am I here for? (3:08) -- These foolish things (3:39) -- The blues walk (alternative take) (6:50) -- Daahoud (alternative take) (4:06) -- Joy spring (alternative take) (6:44).

CD 2626

Duke Ellington.

Mood indigo (Frank Sinatra) -- Sophisticated lady (Rosemary Clooney with the Ellington Orchestra) -- Solitude (Billie Holiday) -- In a sentimental mood (Billy Eckstine) -- I let a song go out of my heart (Mildred Bailey) -- Something to live for (Carmen McRae) -- Don't get around much anymore (Tony Bennett) -- All too soon (Peggy Lee) -- Do nothing til you hear from me (Dinah Shore) -- Just squeeze me (Jo Stafford) -- Just-a-sittin' and a-rockin' (Joe Williams) -- I got it bad (Nat "King" Cole) -- Rocks in my bed (Joe Williams) -- I'm beginning to see the light (Kitty Kallen with Harry James and his orchestra) -- I didn't know about you (Lena Horne) -- Everything but you (Eugenie Baird) -- I ain't got nothin' but the blues (Lena Horne) -- I'm just a lucky so and so (Ella Fitzgerald) -- Lush life (Nat "King" Cole) -- I like the sunrise (Mel Tormé) -- Love you madly (Ella Fitzgerald) -- Satin doll (Carmen McRae).

CD 1853

Keeper of the flame / Woody Herman.

That's right -- Lemon drop -- I got it bad (and that ain't good) -- I ain't gettin' any younger -- Early autumn -- More than you know -- Keeper of the flame -- The crickets -- More moon -- Detour ahead -- Jamaica rhumba -- Not really the blues -- Tenderly -- Lollipop -- I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you -- You've got a date with the blues -- Rhapsody in wood -- The great lie -- In the beginning.

CD 2841

Little girl blue / Nina Simone.

Mood indigo -- Don't smoke in bed -- He needs me -- Little girl blue -- Love me or leave me -- My baby just cares for me -- Good bait -- Plain gold ring -- You'll never walk alone -- I loves you, Porgy -- Central Park blues -- He's got the whole world in His hands -- For all we know -- African mailman -- My baby just cares for me (special extended version).

CD 3106

P lay n ice.

BoyToy/ToyBoy / Eve Beglarian -- Touchtone Tony / Eve Beglarian ; Ben Rubin -- The Buncacan song / Eve Beglarian -- I let a song go out of my heart / Duke Ellington -- Tahoma / Robin Lorentz -- Tea song / Guy Klucevsek -- One tough lama / Randall Woolf -- Ngat + Treva / Traditional -- My feelings now ; Play nice / Eve Beglarian -- I touched your cheek / Kitty Brazelton -- God B's lullaby / Arthur Jarvinen -- Written on the body / Eve Beglarian.

CD 2392

Play nice

BoyToy/ToyBoy / Eve Beglarian -- Touchtone Tony / Eve Beglarian ; Ben Rubin -- The Buncacan song / Eve Beglarian -- I let a song go out of my heart / Duke Ellington -- Tahoma / Robin Lorentz -- Tea song / Guy Klucevsek -- One tough lama / Randall Woolf -- Ngat + Treva / Traditional -- My feelings now ; Play nice / Eve Beglarian -- I touched your cheek / Kitty Brazelton -- God B's lullaby / Arthur Jarvinen -- Written on the body / Eve Beglarian.

CD 2392

T wis tedtu tu p lay n ice

BoyToy/ToyBoy / Eve Beglarian -- Touchtone Tony / Eve Beglarian ; Ben Rubin -- The Buncacan song / Eve Beglarian -- I let a song go out of my heart / Duke Ellington -- Tahoma / Robin Lorentz -- Tea song / Guy Klucevsek -- One tough lama / Randall Woolf -- Ngat + Treva / Traditional -- My feelings now ; Play nice / Eve Beglarian -- I touched your cheek / Kitty Brazelton -- God B's lullaby / Arthur Jarvinen -- Written on the body / Eve Beglarian.

CD 2392

The Blanton-Webster band / Duke Ellington.

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). (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). (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).

CD 1205

The Brunswick era, volume 1 (1926-29) / Duke Ellington.

East St. Louis toodle-o -- New Orleans lowdown -- Immigration blues (bonus track) -- Birmingham breakdown -- Black and tan fantasy -- Doin' the frog -- Take it easy -- Jubilee stomp -- Black beauty -- Yellow dog blues -- Tishomingo blues -- Awful sad --The mooche -- Louisiana (bonus track) -- Tiger rag, part 1 -- Tiger rag, part 2.

CD 275

The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall concerts January 1943.

Disc one. The star spangled banner (1:13) -- Black and tan fantasy (6:36) -- Rockin' in rhythm (4:14) -- Moon mist (3:23) -- Jumpin' punkins (3:02) -- Portrait of Bert Williams (2:48) -- (Portrait of) Bojangles (3:14) -- Portrait of Florence Mills (Black Beauty) (3:39) -- Ko-ko (2:00) -- Dirge (3:03) -- Stomp (Johnny come lately) (2:18) -- Are you stickin'? (3:02) -- Black (1st mov. of Black Brown and Beige) (20:44). Disc two. Brown (10:10) -- Beige (13:29) -- Bakiff (5:56) -- Jack the bear (2;56) -- Blue belles of Harlem (6:03) -- Cotton tail (2:40) -- Day dream (3:27) -- Boy meets horn (5:20) -- Rose of the Rio Grande (2:08) -- Don't get around much anymore (4:11) -- Goin' up (3:42) -- Mood indigo (4:34).

CD 2838

The great Paris concert / Duke Ellington.

Kinda Dukish / Duke Ellington (1:52) -- Rockin' in rhythm / Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Harry Carney (3:47) -- On the sunny side of the street / Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields (2:58) -- The star-crossed lovers / Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn (4:18) -- All of me / Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons (2:35) -- Theme from The asphalt jungle (4:08) ; Concerto for Cootie (2:31) / Duke Ellington -- Tutti for Cootie / Duke Ellington, Jimmy Hamilton (4:51) --Suite Thursday / Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn (16:49) -- Perdido / Juan Tizol, Hans Lengsfelder, Ervin M. Drake (5:22) -- The eighth veil / Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn (2:33) -- Rose of the Rio Grande / Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren, Ross Gorman (2:41) -- Cop out (6:58) ; Bula (4:42) ; Jam with Sam (3:51) / Duke Ellington -- Happy-go-lucky local / Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn (3:25) -- Tone parallel to Harlem / Duke Ellington (14:05) -- Don't get around much anymore (2:33) ; Do nothing till you hear from me (4:33) / Duke Ellington, Bob Russell -- Black and tan fantasy / Duke Ellington, Bubber Miley (2:43) -- Creole love call / Duke Ellington (2:08) -- The mooche / Duke Ellington, Irving Mills (5:38) -- Things ain't what they used to be / Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons (2:53) -- Pyramid / Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol (3:25) -- The blues : from Black, brown & beige (3:36) ; Echoes of Harlem (3:32) / Duke Ellington -- Satin doll / Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer (2:27).

CD 3150

The lay of love / Christopher Trakas ; Simon Wynberg.

1. Arietta alla polacca / Karl Keller (rev. Wynberg) -- 2-5. Selections from Siete canciones populares espaõlas / Manuel de Falla: El Paño moruno ; Asturiana ; Nana ; Cancion -- 6. Cita / Carlos Guastavino (arr. Wynberg) -- 7-9. Duke Ellington: In a sentimental mood ; Satin doll ; Sophisticated lady (arr. Wynberg) -- 10. An Mignon / Louis Spohr -- 11. Die Zeit / Carl Maria von Weber -- 12. Der erste Kuss / L. Spohr -- 13. Lass mich schlummern / C.M. von Weber -- 14. Klagelied von die drei Rosen / L. Spohr -- 15. Arietta / Luigi Brambilla (rev. Wynberg) -- 16-18. 3 villancicos / Joaquin Rodrigo: Coplillas de Belén = Carols od Bethlehem ; Pastorcito Santo = Holy shepherd boy ; Aire y donaire = Airs and graces -- 19. En jerez de la frontera = The miller's wife / J. Rodrigo -- 20.-22. Scottish folk songs: Ye banks and braes = Bonnie Doon / James Miller/Burns arr. Wynberg ; Willie brew'd a peck o'maut /Allan Masterton/Burns arr. Wynberg ; Hush-a-by bairnie / traditional arr. Wynberg.

CD 2335

The legendary Sidney Bechet / Sidney Bechet.

Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin (2:55) ; I've found a new baby / Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams (3:12) (New Orleans Feetwarmers) -- Weary blues / Artie Matthews (3:00) ; Really the blues / Mezz Mezzrow (3:37) (Tommy Ladnier and his orchestra) -- High society (2:47) (Jelly Roll Morton's New Orleans Jazzmen) -- Indian summer / Victor Herbert (3:08) ; Sidney's blues / Sidney Bechet (3:02) ; Shake it and break it / Lou Chicha Friscoe, H. Quail Clark (2:56) ; Wild man blues / Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong (3:18) ; Save it, pretty mama / Don Redman, Paul Denniker, Joe Davis (2:52) ; Stompy Jones / Duke Ellington (2:49) (Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers) -- Muskrat ramble / Kid Ory (2:47) (Dr. Henry Levine's Barefoot Dixieland Philharmonic) -- Baby, won't you please come home / Clarence Williams, Charles Warfield (2:34) (Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers) -- The sheik of Araby / Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler, Ted Snyder (Sidney Bechet's One Man Band) ; When it's sleepy time down South / Leon Rene, Clarence Muse, Otis Rene (3:01); I'm coming Virginia / Marion Cook, Donald Heywood (2:38) (Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers) -- Strange fruit / Lewis Allen (2:31) (Sidney Bechet Trio) -- Blues in the air / Sidney Bechet (2:45) -- The mooche / Duke Ellington, Irving Mills (3:09) -- Twelfth Street rag / Euday Bowman, James Sumner (2:59) -- Mood indigo / Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Irving Mills (3:15) -- What is this thing called love? / Cole Porter (3:33) (Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers).

CD 2632

Trumpets in stride / New York Trumpet Ensemble.

The mooche / Duke Ellington (3:10) -- Cornet chop suey / Louis Armstrong (3:55) -- New Orleans / Hoagy Carmichael (4:58) -- Grandpa's spells / Jelly Roll Morton (2:49) -- East St. Louis toodle-oo / Ellington (3:57) -- Blueberry rhyme / James P. Johnson (3:37) -- Black botton stomp / Morton (2:36) -- After you're gone / Creamer, Layton (4:09) -- In the dark / Bix Biederbecke [i.e. Beiderbecke] (4:11) -- Buddy Bolden's blues / Morton (6:34) -- Come Sunday / Ellington (3:23) -- Concerto for Cootie / Ellington (3:02) -- Peckin' / James, Pollack (3:36) -- The pearls / Morton (4:16).

CD 2798

Way out west / Sonny Rollins.

I'm an old cowhand / Johnny Mercer (5:40) -- I'm an old cowhand (alternate take) / Johnny Mercer (10:06) -- Solitude / Duke Ellington, Eddie De Lange, Irving Mills (7:49) -- Come, gone / Sonny Rollins (7:50) -- Come, gone (alternate take) / Sonny Rollins (10:27) -- Wagon wheels / Peter De Rose, Billy Hill (10:09) -- There is no greater love / Isham Jones, Marty Symes (5:14) -- Way out west / Sonny Rollins (6:28) -- Way out west (alternate take) / Sonny Rollins (6:36).

CD 2356