? DEMS Azure CA-19 650304 Improv. by Strayhorn?
22 Cent Stomp (Ellington) Mercer Ellington: Digital Duke 87
23rd Psalm (=BB & B part VI) (Ellington) Black, Brown and Beige 580211 / Black, Brown and Beige, Duke 100 years ed., 2 takes 580211 /
4:30 Blues (Ellington) April in Paris Feat. Wild Bill Davis 69(1101?) / 70th Birthday Concert 691126 /
9:20 Special (Earle Warren - Engvick - Palmer) D.E.T.S. Vol. 4. 451010 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 5 451118 / The Uncollected Vol. 2. 460716 // Count Basie w. Coleman Hawkins ca. 40 on: Coleman Hawkins: Hawk's Groove (sampler) / Buddy Rich & His Orch. 58 on: The Golden Sounds Of The Big Bands Vol. 1 /
A Flat Minor (Ellington - Strayhorn; not in MM) Such Sweet Thunder (2 takes) 560807 /
A-Oddie-Oobie (Hodges) Hodges: Duke's In Bed 560901 /
Absinthe (Strayhorn) Afro Bossa 630105 // see Lament For An Orchid
Acac (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-5 721005 „the full title is supposed to be Yak-Yak." / = Acht O'Clock Rock
Accent On Youth (Seymour - Lawnhurst) 1935-1936 350819 /
Accentuate The Positive (Arlen - Mercer) D.E.T.S. Vol. 2. 450428 / Live Sessions 1943/1945 450512 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 450512 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 5 450609 /
Acht O'Clock Rock (Ellington; in MM and ASCAP files as "Ocht O'Clock Rock") The Private Collection vol. 5 670711 „code name MICH in 1967" / Live at the Rainbow Grill 670817 / The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse 7102 /
Across The Track Blues (Ellington) The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 401028 / Ko-Ko 401028 / The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 401028 / At His Very Best 401028 / Fargo Encores 401107 /
Action In Alexandria (Ellington) Gonsalves, Paul: Tell it the way it is! + Cleopatra Feelin' Jazzy 630521 / The Private Collection Vol. 4 630718 / DEMS Azure CA-15 630718 /
Ad Lib On Nippon (from The Far East Suite; J. Hamilton - Ellington) En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées (= The Champs-Elysees Theater Jan. 29-30th, 1965) 650129-30 / Berlin '65, Paris '67. 650203 / The Private Collection vol. 8 650301 / The Far East Suite, Special Mix 661019-21 // in 1968 Tokyo (from „Ad Lib On Nippon") was copyrighted: D.E. and Jimmy Hamilton.
Addi (Ellington) Togo Brava Suite (Blue Note) 711022 / The London Concert 7110 /
Admiration (Tizol - Mills) 1935-1936 350430 /
Afrique (Toto) (Ellington) The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse 710211 / Togo Brava Suite (Storyville) 710629 /
Afro-Bossa (= Bula, Nova Exotique) (1963 Ellington) Afro Bossa 630105 / DEMS Azure CA-11 630202 1st concert; announced as Bula / DEMS Azure CA-14 630609 / DEMS Azure CA-19 630812 / At Basin Street East 640114 / En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées (= The Champs-Elysees Theater Jan. 29-30th, 1965) 650129-30 / Duke Ellington Masters (DVD) 650131 // A "gut-bucket bolero", a "nouvelle vague exotique"; has nothing to do with the bossa nova: Strayhorn thought of the "boss". Cf. banter on At Basin Street East 640114. Afro Bossa could well be the banteringly literal translation of Nova Exotique. Strays had proposed Nova=Avon as a title for the Shakespearian Suite. - This is another example of the minor blues in Ellington's work dealing with the history of the American Negro: from Ko-Ko (Congo Square) to Congo Square aka Matumbe to Bula aka Afro Bossa aka Nova Exotique, then Toto, Afrique, and La Plus Belle Afriquaine. In fact they are all reworks or extensions of the original Ko-Ko. They give us the relentless progress of a religious ceremony. D.E., never shy to invite the public to take part in the ongoing atavisms; cf. Skrontch (Scrounch)
Afro-Eurasian Eclipse, The (Suite; 1971 Ellington) dto. 7102 /
After All (Strayhorn) Hollywood 1941 410917 / In the Sixties 670901 / „...and his mother called him Bill" 670901 // Tom Talbert: Duke' Domain 930518-19 / Vienna Art Orchestra: Duke Ellington's Sound of Love. Spring 99 / Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available
After You've Gone (Creamer - Layton) Jimmy Hamilton and his Orch.: Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet 6007; arr. Hamilton. With three baritone horns. // Benny Goodman Octet 5503 at "Basin Street", NY. /
Afternoon Moon (Mercer Ellington) Mercer Ellington: Steppin' Into Swing Society 58-59 arr. M.E. /
Agra (from Far East Suite; MM: 1964 Ellington - Strayhorn) 5 LP set 640311 / Live at Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 1. 640329 / The Far East Suite, Special Mix 661019-21 /
Ain't But The One (Ellington; not in MM) My People 6308-09 / Concert Of Sacred Music 651226 /
Ain't Misbehavin' (Andy Razaf - Thomas Waller - Henry Brooks) The British Connexion 330713 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943. Circle 102. 431109 // Horace Henderson and his Orch. 401023 /
Ain't Nobody Nowhere Nothin' Without God (Ellington) Third Sacred Concert 731024 /
Ain't She Sweet (Yellen - Ager) Jimmy Hamilton and his Orch.: Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet 6007; arr. Hamilton. With three baritone horns. /
Air Conditioned Jungle (aka The Air-Minded Jungle) (Jimmy Hamilton - Ellington) D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943 & 1945. Circle 103. 450103 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1945. Circle 104. 450103 take two / D.E.T.S. Vol. 1. 450407 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 450505 / The Radio Years 1940-1945. 451228 / Carnegie Hall Concerts Jan. 1946 460104 / The Great Chicago Concerts 461110 / 1947 The Chronological D.E. 471110 /
Alabamy Home (Duke Ellington - Dave Ringle) D.E. Presents Ivie Anderson 370608 /
Alfie (Burt Bacharach) D.E.: Live and Rare 690904 two takes arr. Wild Bill Davis /
All At Once (Kurt Weill - Ira Gershwin) D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 450512 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 6. 450623 /
All Day Long (Strayhorn) West Coast Tour 510606 / The Rare Broadcast Recordings 1951 / In the Sixties 670901 / „...and his mother called him Bill" 670901 // Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available
All God's Chillun Got Rhythm (Gus Kahn - Bronislav Kaper - Walter Jurmann) D.E. Presents Ivie Anderson 370608 // Bud Powell 4905 / Bud Powell w. Sonny Stitt 491211 /
All Heart (Strayhorn - Ellington) see Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald on: Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook (Verve) 570627 plus alternative takes / The Private Collection Vol. 9 580304 // see Hajdu p. 168 and p. 292 („was performed by the Ellington Orch. at Carnegie Hall on December 27, 1947, as 'Entrance of Youth'.")
All My Loving (McCartney - Lennon) Ellington '66 650118 /
All Of A Sudden My Heart Sings see My Heart Sings
All Of Me (Simons - Marks) Johnny Hodges & His Orch.: Used to Be Duke 540805; the CD has as a part of the medley John Coltrane's interpretation of "All of Me" / DEMS Azure CA-1 5706 / All Star Road Band 570601 / Jazz At The Plaza Volume II: Duke Ellington & His Orch. 580909 / Echoes of an Era (published 1958) / En Concert avec Europe 1: Alhambra 581029 / D.E. At The Alhambra 581029 / DEMS Azure CA-13 581102 / Jazz Party 590219 / D.E. Live. Paris 590920 / DEMS Azure CA-30 590926 / DEMS Azure CA-17 630608 / Harlem 640309 / Ella And Duke At The Cote D'Azur 660727/28 / The Great Paris Concert 6302 / (arr. M.E.) The D.E. Orch.: Music Is My Mistress 880722/23 or 880801 // Billie Holiday & her orch. 410321 on: The Lester Young Story / Count Basie a. h. orch. 1941 411103 / Esquivel: Juan's Again 59 / Esquivel: Infinity in Sound Vol. 2 60 // Fred Sturm discusses several arrangements of All Of Me in his study: Changes Over Time: The Evolution of Jazz Arranging.
All The Things You Are (Oscar Hammerstein II - Jerome Kern) 100 Years Duke. Famous Birthday Sessions 530430 / The Duke In Washington 550420 // Dizzy Gillespie 45 / Phineas Newborn Jr.: Here Is Phineas 560503, w. Oscar Pettiford, Kenny Clarke / Kenton: Artistry In Rhythm ca. 61; the mellophone band / Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan 620703 w. Wendell Marshall, Connie Kay; on RCA Masters "Disque Catalogue" /
All Too Soon (Ellington - Sigman) In A Mellotone 400722 / The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 400722 / Ko-Ko 400722 / DEMS Azure CA-1 400729; announced by D.E. as I Don't Mind / Piano Reflections 530414 / Ben Webster w. Strings 540528, arr. & p Strayhorn / Ballads by Ben Webster 540528 / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook (Verve) 570627 / Unknown Session 600714 / Ella And Duke At The Cote D'Azur 660727/28 / 1969 All-Star Tribute to Duke Ellington 690429 / The Duke Ellington Small Bands: The Intimacy of the Blues 700615 / DEMS Azure CA-25 700615, two takes / Mercer Ellington: The D.E. Orch.: Continuum 750106 or 07 // Sarah Vaughan: Sassy 460306 / Tom Talbert: Duke' Domain 9206 /
Almighty God (Ellington) Second Sacred Concert 6801 /
Almost Cried see Flirtibird
Alone Together (Howard Dietz - Arthur Schwartz) Cool Rock 720612 // The Louie Bellson Quintet: Raincheck 780503/04 /
Alphonse Et Gaston (Ernie Wilkins) Cootie Williams, Coleman Hawkins, Rex Stewart: Together 1957 (= The Big Challenge) 570430 /
Alternate (Ellington) D.E. and the Ellingtonians 510619 /
Altitude aka On Becoming A Square see Main Stem
Amad (from the Far East Suite; MM: 1964 Ellington - Strayhorn) Live at Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 1. 640329 / The Far East Suite, Special Mix (2 takes) 661019-21 /
Amor, Amor (Mendez - Ruiz) The Duke In Washington 440708 /
Amour, Amour (Too Kee) (Togo Brava-Brava Togo Suite part III) (Ellington) Togo Brava Suite (Storyville) 710629 / Togo Brava Suite (Blue Note) 711022 / The London Concert 7110 / Live at the Whitney 720410 / DEMS Azure CA-8 720505 /
An Ordinary Thing (Anderson) Johnny Hodges and the Ellington Men: The Big Band Sound Of Johnny Hodges 570903 /
Anal Renrut see Charpoy
Anatomy Of A Murder aka I'm Gonna Go Fishin' (Ellington) Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder 590601, 590602, 5906 / The Feeling of Jazz 620524/25 / DEMS Azure CA-7 621119 / Cool Rock 650520 // (Strayhorn) Strayhorn. The Dutch Jazz Orch.: So This Is Love 971013-17 or 991028 // Cf. Haupé and its many subtitles /
Angelica (Ellington) Duke Ellington & John Coltrane 620926 /
Angu (Ellington) Afro Bossa 630105 /
Animal Crackers (Rich - Coslow - Link) 1924-1927 260621 / Ran Blake: Duke Dreams 8105/06 /
Anitra's Dance [Selections from Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2] (Adaptation by Ellington) Swinging Suites… 600628-30 // Gil Evans?
Ansellia (aka An Angry Orchid aka A Furious Flower. Mercer Ellington) Only God Can Make A Tree. The D.E. Orch. Conducted by Mercer Ellington ca. 95; arr. by M.E. /
Anticipation, The (from the UWIS Suite; Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-18 720825 /
Antidisestablishmentarianismist (George - Ellington) 1947 The Chronological D.E. 470930 arr. Gerald Wilson, see DEMS Bulletin 00/3, & Wilson in Central Avenue Sounds p. 337 /
Anything But Love (McHugh - Fields) Jimmy Hamilton and the New York Jazz Quintet 1955 /
Apes And Peacocks (The Queen's Suite part 6) (Ellington) The Ellington Suites 590401 // The Queen's Suite is explained in D.E.'s own words in: Mercer E.: D.E. in Person p. 119 f. "From the Bible: I Kings 10:22."
April In Paris (Harburg - Duke) April in Paris Feat. Wild Bill Davis 69(1101?) Arr. by Wild Bill Davis for Count Basie // Glenn Miller 420812 arr. Bill Finegan / Bud Powell 5001-02 /
Arabian Lover (McHugh - Fields) At The Cotton Club 290503 /
Are You Stickin'? (Ellington) The Duke And His Men 410605 / Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 /
Aristocracy A La Jean Lafitte (Ellington) New Orleans Suite 700427 /
Artistry In Rhythm (Stan Kenton) Recollections Of The Big Band Era 630103 arr. Strayhorn (Strayhorn plays piano). Reconstruction with a very different feeling, using mainly Ray Nance, violin, and Cootie Williams, tp. Far out. One of my favorites. // Stan Kenton & His Orch. 1940-1944 431119 / Kenton a. h. orch. 1945-1952 Opus In Pastels 451030 / Kenton: Artistry In Rhythm ca. 61; the Mellophone band / Gustav Brom: Artistry in Swing 7803 /
As Long As I Live (Max Steiner - Charlie Tobias) D.E.T.S. Vol. 5 451118 /
As Time Goes By (Hupfeld) DEMS Azure CA-1 5706 / Jimmy Hamilton: As Time Goes By 850924 /
Ase's Death [Selections from Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2] (Adaptation by Ellington) Swinging Suites… 600628-30 /
Asphalt Jungle (Ellington) In the Uncommon Market; probably 63 Jan/Feb /
Asphalt Jungle Theme (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-11 630202 1st concert / DEMS Azure CA-7 630205 /
Asphalt Jungle Twist (Ellington) Primping For The Prom 610730 /
Assault On A Queen see Blessings On The Night / Beautiful Woman Walks Well
At A Dixie Roadside Diner (E. Leslie - J. Burke) The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 400722 /
Auld Lang Syne (Trad.) Recollections Of The Big Band Era 621229 arr. D.E. / Mercer Ellington: Take The Holiday Train 800728-29 /
Aurora Borealis (Ron Collier) Collages 73 /
Autumn In New York (Vernon Duke) Strayhorn. The Dutch Jazz Orch.: You Go To My Head 991025-28 // Attila Zoller: Shivi Guitar 550728 /
Autumn Leaves (J. Kosma, J. Prevert, J. Mercer, Parsons) Ellington Indigos 5709-10 / The Private Collection Vol. 9 580304 // Kenny Dorham: This is the Moment! 5807-08 / Esquivel: Infinity in Sound 600223 / Mary Lou Williams at Rick's Cafe Americain, Chicago 791114 /
Avalon (Jolson - De Silva - Rose) D.E.'s Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene 580402/03 arr. J. Hamilton // Benny Goodman 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert 380116 / Benny Goodman Octet 5503 at "Basin Street", NY. / Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson 550731 / Bob Stewart Sings with the Mat Mathews' Quintet 56. With Oscar Pettiford, Kenny Clarke / Benny Goodman in Moscow 1962. 620701-08 / Bill Berry: Shortcake 78 /
Awful Sad (Ellington, c. 1929) D.E. a. his Cotton Club Orch. 281020 // Brooks Kerr: Soda Fountain Rag 75. With Sonny Greer /
Azalea (Ellington) Louis Armstrong & D.E.: The Great Reunion 610404 /
Azure (Ellington - I. Mills) The British Connexion 381006 / DEMS Azure CA-4 390315 / Mercer Ellington a. h. orch.: Black and Tan Fantasy 590316 arr. Luther Henderson / Serenade To Sweden (w. Alice Babs) 630228 / DEMS Azure CA-28 Serenade To Sweden 630228 / Ella At Duke's Place 6511 / Live at the Rainbow Grill 670817 / DEMS Azure CA-9 670817 / (arr. M.E.) The D.E. Orch.: Music Is My Mistress 880722/23 or 880801 / [70th Birthday Concert 691126: the so-called „Azure" on the CD is „Azure Te"!] // Chick Webb a. h. orch. 1932-1938 (Jazz Portraits CD 14548) 380502 / Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson 550731 / Milt Jackson 560123 on: Kenny Clarke: Telefunken Blues / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook Vol. 2. 560904 / Chico Hamilton with Eric Dolphy: The Original Ellington Suite 580822 /
Azure Te (Paris Blues) (W. [i.e. Wild Bill] Davis - B. Wolfe) 70th Birthday Concert 691126 (CD calls it „Azure")!
B. Sharp Blues (Ellington) Piano Reflections 530413 /
B Sharp Boston (Ellington) Primping For The Prom 491222 / 1949-1950 The Chronological D.E. 491222 /
B.D.B. (Ellington - Strayhorn) Battle Royal 610707 / First Time! Duke 100 Years (2 takes) 610707 /
B.P. (aka B.P. Blues; Ellington) 70th Birthday Concert 691126 / Paul Gonsalves, Earl Hines, Ray Nance: It Don't Mean A Thing 700903 /
Babsie (Alice Babs) Serenade To Sweden (w. Alice Babs) 630301 / DEMS Azure CA-28 Serenade To Sweden 630301 /
Baby, Please Stop! And Think About Me (Ellington) D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943. Circle 102. 431109 3 takes /
Baby, When You Ain't There (Ellington) 1931-1932 320204 /
Baby, You Can't Miss (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-26 710522 /
Back Home Again In Indiana see Indiana
Back To School (C. Strouse - L. Adams) All American in Jazz 6201 /
Backward Country Boy Blues (Ellington) Money Jungle 620917 /
Bad Woman (Ellington) The Private Collection Vol. 4 630515 /
Bagatelle (Strayhorn) DJO: Portrait Of A Silk Thread 950108-08 // Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available
Bakiff (Tizol) The Duke And His Men 410605 / Hollywood 1941 411203 / Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 / Carnegie Hall Concert 471227 / D.E. 1953-1955 540901 /
Balcony Serenade (The Perfume Suite 1; also known as Sonata, Love, Under The Balcony) (Ellington - Strayhorn; but see Hajdu p. 292) Jazz Classic's (Poland) V-Disc 450407 / The Jazz Collector Edition 450724 /
Ballad Medley (div.) Johnny Hodges & His Orch.: Used to Be Duke 540805; the CD has as a part of the medley John Coltrane's interpretation of "All of Me" /
Ballad(e) for Very Tired and Very Sad Lotus Eaters (Strayhorn) Hodges: Duke's In Bed 560901 // Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available
Ballet Of The Flying Saucers (Ellington - Strayhorn) A Drum Is A Woman 5609-12 / Only God Can Make A Tree. The D.E. Orch. Conducted by Mercer Ellington ca. 95; arr. by Christopher Cherney // Claude Bolling Big Band: A Drum Is A Woman 960404/05 //
Ballin' The Blues (Ellington) Happy Birthday, Duke! 540429 // Cf. She Moved /
Band Call (Ellington) D.E. 1953-1955 540426 / 100 Years Duke. Famous Birthday Sessions 540429 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 540429 / DEMS Azure CA-7 731102 /
Bang-up Blues (Ellington) D.E. and the Ellingtonians 5010 / Archive of Jazz Vol. 31 (Trio) 501003 /
Banquet (Banquet Scene; Counter Theme; from Timon) (Ellington) Live at Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 2 640329 / The Private Collection vol. 5 650317 // D.E.s Timon Of Athens. Music Adapted By Stanley Silverman. (93?) /
Barefoot Stomper (Strayhorn - Ellington) Concert in the Virgin Islands 650414 /
Barney Goin' Easy (Barney Bigard) became I'm Checkin' Out, Go'om Bye (Boy Meets Horn p. 161)
Barney's Concerto see Clarinet Lament
Basin Street Blues (Spencer Williams) The Rare Broadcast Recordings 1952 / I'm Beginning To See The Light 530630 / Back to Back 590220 / DEMS Azure CA-7 731102 / Eastbourne Performance 731201 / D.E.: Live and Rare 731201 // Fats Waller 370611 / The Chronological Rex Stewart 1946-1947 471125 / Louis Armstrong 540319 / Jimmy Smith: The Cat 640427 or 29, arr. Lalo Schifrin / Kurt Edelhagen - Wolfgang Sauer 640616 (Amiga Jazz) /
Bass-ment (Bassment = Hark, The Duke's Trumpets!) (Ellington) All Star Road Band 570601 / D.E.'s Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene 580402/3 /
Basso Profundo (Ellington) Carnegie Hall Concert 471227 /
Bateau (Ellington) The Best of D.E. 701209 /
Battle Of Swing (aka Le Jazz Hot) (Ellington) The Smithsonian Collection: Duke Ellington 1938. 381219 / Masters of Jazz 381219 / D.E. Vol. 2: Battle of Swing 38 // cf. A. Homzy: Battle of Swing. Duke Ellington's Miniature Concerto Grosso. In: Ellington. Beyond Categories of XX Century.
Battle Royal (Ellington) Battle Royal 610706 / First Time! Duke 100 Years (2 takes) 610706 // Battle royals - four to six men, usually black, fighting in a ring with the survivor to take all - entertained clubs and stag gatherings as late as the 1940s. / The music maybe inspired by "Here And There", probably by Gerald Wiggins (The Gerald Wiggins Trio on: Kay Starr and the Gerald Wiggins Trio. Crown Rec. CLP 5268. Late fifties). Wig composed a tune "The Wig", which is also on this recording. D.E. composed "Wig Wise", copyrighted 1963. Cf. also Randy Weston's "Loose Wig". /
Be Patient (Mercer Ellington) Mercer Ellington: Steppin' Into Swing Society 580717 arr. Luther Henderson / Mercer Ellington a. h. orch.: Black and Tan Fantasy 580717 /
Beale Street Blues (W.C. Handy) Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 460826 / 1946 The Chronological D.E. 460826 / The Arrival Of Billy Strayhorn 460826 / The Great Chicago Concerts 461110 / The Uncollected Vol. 4. 470609 / Back to Back 590220 // Fats Waller 270520 /
Bean Bag Boogie (Shorty Baker) Johnny Hodges: The Vogue Recordings 500620 /
Beautiful American, The (Ellington) Louis Armstrong & D.E.: The Great Reunion 610403 / Louis Armstrong & D.E. 610403 /
Beautiful Friendship, A (Styne - Kahn) Ellington '66 650121 /
Beautiful Indians, The - Hiawatha (Ellington) Blue Skies 461023 - 461218 // sa Hiawatha
Beautiful Indians, The - Minnehaha (Ellington) Blue Skies 461023 - 461218 // sa Minnehaha
Beautiful Woman Walks Well (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-2 670131 /
Beer Garden (Ellington) Anatomy of a Murder 590529, 5906 /
Beige (third movement of BBB) (Ellington) Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 / The Private Collection vol. 8 650518 /
Believe Me Hot Mama (Callens) Bubber Miley w. The Kansas City Five on: New York Horns ca. 2411 /
Belle Of The Belmont (Mercer Ellington)
Bend One (Hodges) Side By Side 580814 /
Bensonality (Ellington) Presents the Soloists of his orch. 511207 /
Best Wishes (Ellington - Koehler) 1931-1932 320517 /
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (H. Arlen - Koehler) Live Sessions 1943/1945 451013 // Arr. probably by MLW: Linda Dahl: Morning Glory p. 434, Compositions and/or Arrangements by Mary Lou Williams for the Ellington Orch., 1940s through 1960s / Bob Stewart Sings with the Mat Mathews' Quintet 56. With Oscar Pettiford, Kenny Clarke / Thelonious Monk: Monk Alone 670110 / Ella Fitzgerald w. the Jimmy Jones Trio. On: The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World 6706-07 /
Beyond Category see Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald
Big Boy Blues (J. Hamilton) Hodges, Johnny: Triple Play 670109/10 /
Big Fat Alice's Blues (Strayhorn - Ellington) Concert in the Virgin Islands 650414 /
Big Nick (Coltrane) Duke Ellington & John Coltrane 620926 / For George „Big Nick" Nicholas
Big Shoe (Jimmy Hamilton) Side By Side 580814-590220 /
Biggest and Busiest Intersection, The aka Kixx or Come Off The Veldt (Ellington) Second Sacred Concert 6801 / Live at the Whitney 720410 /
Bill Bailey Won't You... (trad., arr. Mercer Ellington)
Bird Of Paradise (Ellington) New York Concert 640520 // (Parker) Charlie Parker 47 /
Birmingham Breakdown (Ellington, c. 1927) 1924-1927 261129, 270228 / Jazz Classic's (Poland) 26 or 27 // Cf. The New Birmingham Breakdown /
Bitches' Ball (Ellington) 1914, unpublished; brief piano solo in „Beige" 1943; Tucker: Early Years p. 39 ff.
Black (first movement of BBB) (Ellington) Carnegie Hall Concert [430123]; for technical reasons a substitution was necessary: the opening segment of Black (until shortly after Johnny Hodges's solo on the "Come Sunday" section) was taken from a Boston Concert 430128 / / En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées 650129-30 / The Private Collection Vol. 8 650301
Black And Tan Fantasy (see also: New... and Prologue to...) (Ellington and Bubber Miley, c. 1927) 1924-1927 270407 / Masters of Jazz 270407 / Cotton Club Days 271006 w. Jabbo Smith / Bugle Call Rag 27 / 1931-1932 320209 (medley) / Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 450505 / The Arrival Of Billy Strayhorn 450510 / Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 450511 / Take The A Train. Dreyfus Jazz 450511 / 1941-1951 450511 / The Radio Years 1940-1945. 451228 / Ellington '55 531229 / D.E. 1953-1955 531229 / 1954 Los Angeles Concert 540413 / Ellington Complete At Newport 560707 / Hodges: Duke's In Bed 560901 / En Concert avec Europe 1: Alhambra 581029 (medley) / D.E. At The Alhambra 581029 (medley) / DEMS Azure CA-13 581102 / Mercer Ellington a. h. orch.: Black and Tan Fantasy 590318 arr. Richard „Dick" Vance / DEMS Azure CA-30 590926 / Louis Armstrong & D.E.: The Great Reunion 610404 / Serenade To Sweden (feat. Ray Nance) 620524 or 25 / The Feeling of Jazz 620525 / Jump For Joy 620525 / 5 LP set DEMS: dto. / DEMS Azure CA-30 620525 takes 1 & 2 / Greatest Hits 630223 / DEMS Azure CA-17 630608 / DEMS Azure CA-2 630706 / Live at Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 1. 640329 (Medley) / The Popular D.E. 660510 / In the Sixties 660510 / Recordings 1945-1967 660509/10 / The Jazz Collector Edition 660509/10 / The Duke Lives On (live 1966) / Live in Mexico 6809 / Memories of Duke 680923 or 28 / Live at the Whitney 720410 / Mercer Ellington: The D.E. Orch.: Continuum 750106 or 07, arr. Dick Vance / Mercer Ellington: The D.E. Orch.: Music Is My Mistress 880722/23 or 880801, arr. M.E. // Jimmy Lunceford a. h. orch. 340904 arr. Sy Oliver / D.E.s Timon Of Athens. Music Adapted By Stanley Silverman. (93?) / Thelonious Monk: Memorial Album = Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington 5507 / Louis Armstrong & D.E. 6104 / Earl Hines Orch. 660111 w. Ellingtonians / Ran Blake: Duke Dreams 8105/06 / Joe Temperley: Double Duke 981002 or 03 // Mills' Evergreen Album Vol. 1 // Roger Pryor Dodge wrote in 1934 (reprinted in Robert Gottlieb (ed.): Reading Jazz p. 757 ff): "The four solos that follow are notated from records made by Bubber Miley. He said they were variations on a Spiritual his mother used to sing, called "Hosanna," but the Spiritual turns out to be a part of Stephen Adams' "Holy City" commencing at the seventeenth bar. ... Such solos as I have printed, demand musical investigation." - Ernest Borneman in Condon's Treasury of Jazz p. 55: "a jazzed-up paraphrase of Stephen Adams' Holy City." / "Curiously, the only form of music which consciously made use of gliding tones to any extent was negro jazz, and in this field Duke Ellington was the leading exponent. His recorded versions of Soliloquy (recorded April 30, 1927) and Black and Tan Fantasy (recorded February 9, 1932) are fine examples of how gliding tones may be incorporated into the musical structure without being merely incidental to it. Grainger, who was always a great admirer of Duke Ellington, must have been aware of the work done by this great tunesmith." John Bird: Percy Grainger. London 1982. P. 235
Black Beauty aka Firewater (Ellington) Cotton Club Days 280321 / Bugle Call Rag 28 / Carnegie Hall Concert [430123]; for technical reasons a substitution was necessary: Black Beauty was taken from a Boston Concert 430128 / Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 450516 / 1945 Vol. 2 The Chronological D.E. 450516 / Unknown Session 600714 // Brooks Kerr: Soda Fountain Rag 75. With Sonny Greer // Egan: "[D.E.] would give Florence Mills her most enduring monument, 'Black Beauty', his 'Portrait of Florence Mills'."
Black, Brown And Beautiful (Oliver Nelson) Johnny Hodges: Three Shades Of Blue. 700317 or 19 /
Black, Brown And Beige (Ellington) Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 / Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 441211 excerpts (The Blues - Three Dances), 441212 excerpts (Work Song - Come Sunday) / At His Very Best 441211/12: 2 excerpts (Work Song - Come Sunday) Masters of Jazz 441211 / 4 selections: Work Song - The Blues - Three Dances (West Indian Dance, Creamy Brown aka Sugar Hill Penthouse, Emancipation Celebration aka Lighter Attitude) - Come Sunday. Carnegie Hall Concert Dec. 1944. 441219 / 4 selections (West Indian Dance - The Blues - Emancipation Celebration - Sugar Hill Penthouse) D.E.T.S. Vol. 2. 450421 / 2 selections (Work Song - Come Sunday) D.E.T.S. Vol. 2. 450428 / 3 selections (Come Sunday - Work Song - The Blues) Carnegie Hall Concert 460104 / 2 selections (Work Song - Come Sunday) The Great Chicago Concerts 460120 / Black, Brown and Beige 5802 / Black, Brown and Beige, Duke 100 years ed. (2 takes) 5802 / En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées 29-30 Janvier 1965 (= The Champs-Elysees Theater Jan. 29-30th, 1965) (Worksong - Come Sunday - Light) / (Excerpts) Duke Ellington Masters (DVD) 650131 // Louie Bellson: Black, Brown & Beige 921020-22. Maurice Peress, conductor: "With the approach of the fiftieth anniversary of Black, Brown And Beige, I had been proposing ... a new digital recording of the 1943 original." // Criticism and analysis see D.E. Reader and Schuller: Swing Era p. 141 ff.
Black Butterfly (Ellington - I. Mills - B. Carruthers) 1936-1937 The Chronological D.E. 361221 / Mercer Ellington: Steppin' Into Swing Society 580714 arr. by Luther Henderson / Mercer Ellington: Black and Tan Fantasy 580714 / The Best of D.E. 690620 / 5 LP set 691104 second concert / Satin Doll 691104 second concert / DEMS Azure CA-9 691107 / 70th Birthday Concert 691126 // Cf. Change Of Mind.
Black Swan (Ellington) 70th Birthday Concert 691126 /
Blackout see Uptown Downbeat
Blem (Ellington) Mercer Ellington: The D.E. Orch.: Continuum 750107 /
Blessings On The Night (From "Assault On A Quenn") (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-2 670115 /
Bli-Blip (Ellington - Sid Kuller) Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook (Verve) 570627 // Version for piano in: Duke Ellington at the Piano (1943) /
Blind Bug (= Night Creature, 1. Movement) (Ellington) Ellington For Always (= The Symphonic Ellington) 630208 /
Blood Count (Strayhorn) Berlin '65, Paris '67. 670310 / DEMS Azure CA-14 670623 / The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World 6706-07 / „...and his mother called him Bill" 670828 // Vienna Art Orchestra: Duke Ellington's Sound of Love. Spring 99 // Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available
Blousons Noir (Ellington) The Private Collection Vol. 4 630418 / DEMS Azure CA-25 630418 /
Blow By Blow (Ellington) Harlem 640309 / Duke Ellington Masters (DVD) 650131 / DEMS Azure CA-7 731102 /
Blow Out (Mercer Ellington)
Blue Abandon (Ellington) The Uncollected Vol. 1. 460328 /
Blue Belles Of Harlem, The (Ellington) Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 6. 450623 // MM 190: "written for and premiered by Paul Whiteman"
Blue Cellophane (Ellington) Carnegie Hall Concert Dec. 1944. 441219 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943 & 1945. Circle 103. 450102 3 takes / Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 450104 / Jazz Classic's (Poland) prob. 450102 or 04 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 450512 /
Blue Eagle Stomp see Dallas Doings
Blue Goose (Ellington) The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 400528 / The Radio Years 1940-1945. 400610 / The British Connexion 400612 /
Blue Harlem (Ellington) 1931-1932 320516 /
Blue Heart (Strayhorn) Strayhorn. The Dutch Jazz Orch.: So This Is Love 971013-17 or 991028 // Cf. Paradise /
Blue House (Strayhorn) Billy Strayhorn: Something To Live For. 971013-020131 // Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available
Blue Is The Evening (Clare - Akst) Rendezvous with Rhythm 380802 /
Blue Is The Night (Fred Fisher) D.E.T.S. Vol. 5 450609 / Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 460826 / 1946 The Chronological D.E. 460826 / The Uncollected Vol. 5. 470610 // Also listed as: Blue Is The Light or Blues In The Night! /
Blue Jean Beguine (William „Cat" Anderson) 1954 Los Angeles Concert 540413 / 100 Years Duke. Famous Birthday Sessions 540429 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 540429 /
Blue Light (Ellington) Blue Light 381222 / The Smithsonian Collection: Duke Ellington 1938. 381222, two takes / D.E. Vol. 2: Battle of Swing 38 /
Blue Lou (Sampson - Mills) The Uncollected Vol. 5. 470609; also on Mr. Ellington // Chick Webb & his orch. 341119
Blue Moon (Lorenz Hart - Richard Rodgers) Happy Birthday, Duke! 540429 // Frankie Trumbauer & His Orch. 341120, w. Bunny Berigan /
Blue Mood (Ellington) 1931-1932 320518 // Cf. Echoes Of Harlem / Cf. Change Of Mind /
Blue Pepper (Far East Of The Blues) (Ellington) The Far East Suite, Special Mix 661019-21 /
Blue Ramble (Mills - Hays) It Don't Mean A Thing. Classic Recordings, Vol. 2: 320518 / 1931-1932 320919 /
Blue Reverie (Ellington - Carney) Benny Goodman 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert 380116; also on: Thanks Duke. Tribute to Duke Ellington, w. Hodges ss, Carney, Cootie //
Blue Room (Rodgers - Hart) Jimmy Hamilton and his Orch.: Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet 6007; arr. Hamilton. With three baritone horns. // Benny Goodman 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert 380116 /
Blue Rose (Ellington) arr. Strayhorn: Blue Rose 5601 / The Private Collection Vol. 4 630418 // Ran Blake: Duke Dreams 8105/06 // Does not appear in W. van de Leur's lists of Strayhorn works. / „a chord progression which, as Ellington scholar Andrew Homzy has observed, anticipates the one which John Coltrane would utilize in his jazz classic 'Giant Steps'." (Blue Rose, liner notes by Will Friedwald). Cross relations have always been an Ellington characteristic, like cross voicings etc. - „Anticipation"? Does it mean that in "Hey Baby" he "anticipated" Keith Jarrett? / Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): Blue Roses. Roses red and roses white / Plucked I for my love’s delight. / She would none of all my posies— / Bade me gather her blue roses. - García Lorca's Don Perlimplín, set to music by Strayhorn, has a similar motif: frustrated, wounded love. - Rose Grainger to her son Percy: "If only you didn't prefer blue roses..." Cf. John Bird: Percy Grainger. Oxford 1999. P. 153. /
Blue Serge (Mercer Ellington) In A Mellotone 410215 / The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 410215 / Hollywood 1941 411203 / Broadcasts 1940/41 411203 / Live Sessions 1943/1945 450616 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 6. 450616 / Carnegie Hall Concert 471227 / Mercer Ellington a. h. orch.: Black and Tan Fantasy 590320 arr. Strayhorn / Mercer Ellington: The D.E. Orch.: Continuum 740717. Harry Carney's last record session. // Kenny Clarke's Sextet Plays André Hodeir 561130 arr. Hodeir // Mercer E.: D.E. in Person p. 93: "arrangements I had written under his supervision, like ... Blue Serge... " / Mercer E.: D.E. in Person p. 55: "Washington had always been very conservative - a case of wearing a blue serge suite, ready-made. If someone had a mohair, he was in high fashion!" - Mercer was born in 1919. - "Conformity in the nineteen twenties was a stiff collar, black boots and blue serge suit." Keith Dunstan: Ratbags p. XI.
Blue Skies (Trumpets No End) (Irving Berlin) D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943. Circle 101. 431108, 6 takes. Arr. Mary Lou Williams / Carnegie Hall Concert Dec. 1944. 441219 arr. Mary Lou Williams / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 450505 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 5 450602 / The Great Chicago Concerts 461110 / 1946-1947 The Chronological D.E 461125 / 1941-1951 461125 / Blue Skies 461023 - 461218 / Carnegie Hall Concert 471226 / Carnegie Hall Concert Vol. 1. 481113 / DEMS Azure CA-26 520325 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 530430 // Benny Goodman 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert 380116 / Glenn Miller 390404 / MLW: Two Cats & A Mouse 4402, solo piano / Count Basie 1945-1946 451009 / Brooks Kerr Salutes Irving Berlin (with Sonny Greer) 810513 / Linda Dahl: Morning Glory p. 434, Compositions and/or Arrangements by Mary Lou Williams for the Ellington Orch., 1940s through 1960s (Ellington Archive, Smithsonian) /
Blue Star (Strayhorn) DJO: Portrait Of A Silk Thread 950108-08 // There is a striking resemblance to Benny Carter's "Blue Star". Cf. Benny Carter: Further Definitions 611115; titled "Evening Star" on: Benny Carter: Harlem Renaissance 920207 or 09; Carter changed the title when he added a lyric that required the extra syllable.
Blue, Too see The Shepherd
Blue Tune (Ellington) 1931-1932 320204 /
Bluebird Of Delhi (Ellington - Strayhorn) Live at Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 1. 640329 / The Far East Suite, Special Mix (2 takes) 661019-21 /
Bluer (Ellington) The Private Collection Vol. 2 570117 // relates to a number on which Clark Terry was to distinguish himself in A Drum Is A Woman.
Blues (Ellington) Togo Brava Suite (Storyville) 710223 /
Blues (Ellington) Caravan (Small Groups/Solos 1936-1947) 391014 p-solo / The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 391122 / Unknown Session 600714 // Cf. Informal Blues /
Blues, The (Black, Brown And Beige) (Ellington) Jazz Classic's (Poland) prob. 441212 / Carnegie Hall Concert Dec. 1944. 441219 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 2. 450421 / The Duke In Washington 460420 / DEMS Azure CA-12 630202 1st concert / DEMS Azure CA-19 620316 (start) / DEMS Azure CA-18 720825 /
Blues A La Willie Cook (Ellington) The Private Collection Vol. 2 570129 / I'm Beginning To See The Light 570129 /
Blues At Sundown (?) The Rare Broadcast Recordings 1952 /
Blues Cluster (Ellington) D.E.T.S. Vol. 5 450609 // Diminuendo In Blue & Crescendo In Blue; Interlude: Rocks In My Bed (vocal Marie) /
Blues For A Princess (S. Gross) Jimmy Hamilton and the New York Jazz Quintet 1955 /
Blues For Blanton (Duke and Mercer Ellington) The Oscar Pettiford Quintet on: D.E. and the Ellingtonians 500913 / Archive of Jazz Vol. 31 (Oscar - Pettiford - Quartet) 500913 / 1949-1950 The Chronological D.E. 500913 /
Blues For Clarinet (J. Hamilton) Jimmy Hamilton and the New York Jazz Quintet 1955 /
Blues For Jerry (Ellington) Piano In The Foreground 610301 /
Blues For New Orleans (Ellington) New Orleans Suite 700427 /
Blues For The Maestro (Alice Babs - Nils Lindberg) Far Away Star. Alice Babs, Nils Lindgren & his orch. 741125 /
Blues I Love To Sing, The (Ellington and Bub Miley, c. 1927)
Blues In Blueprint (Ellington) Blues In Orbit 591203 // Vienna Art Orchestra: Duke Ellington's Sound of Love. Spring 99 /
Blues In C (Duke and Mercer Ellington) Jazz Violin Session 630222 /
Blues In Hoss' Flat (Blues In Frankie's Flat) (Frank Foster - Count Basie) Battle Royal 610707 / First Time! Duke 100 Years 610707 /
Blues In My Room (J. Hamilton) Jimmy Hamilton and the New York Jazz Quintet 1955 /
Blues In Orbit [aka Tender] (Ellington - Strayhorn) Blues In Orbit 580212 / Black, Brown and Beige, Duke 100 years ed. 580212 (different take; cf. p 7 of the booklet) / Presents the Soloists of his orch. 580212 / Black, Brown and Beige, Duke 100 years ed. 580212 (different take) / The Private Collection Vol. 10 580305 // Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available
Blues Medley (Ellington) New York Concert 640520 // Happy-Go-Lucky Local, John Sanders' Blues (E & D Blues), C Jam Blues
Blues On My Weary Mind (Feather) Earl Hines Sextet 440426, on: Earl Hines and the Duke's Men; also on: Earl Hines & His Orchestra 1942-1945 /
Blues On The Double (Buck Clayton) D.E.T.S. Vol. 5 450602 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1945. Circle 105. 450807 3 takes /
Blues Riff, A (Ellington) The Great Chicago Concerts 461110 /
Blues Serenade, A (Parish - Signorelli - Grande) Rendezvous with Rhythm 380801 and 380804 / The Smithsonian Collection: Duke Ellington 1938. 380804 /
Blues To Be There (The) [Festival Junction Part II] (Ellington-Strayhorn) Ellington At Newport 560707 / Ellington Complete At Newport (2 takes) 560707 ff. / The Private Collection Vol. 10 580305 // Was developped from In A Blue Summer Garden /
Blues With A Feeling, The (Ellington, c. 1929) Masters of Jazz 2811 // Brooks Kerr: Soda Fountain Rag 75. With Sonny Greer // Music in: Duke Ellington's Piano Solos
Blues, The (The Blues Ain't) (from BBB) (Ellington) Carnegie Hall Concerts Jan. 1946 460104 / My People 6308/09 / The Duke Lives On (live 1966) / The Private Collection vol. 8 710506 /
Blues, The (C Jam Blues) (Ellington) The Bethlehem Years Vol. 2. 5602 /
Blutopia (Ellington) Carnegie Hall Concert Dec. 1944. 441219 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1945. Circle 104. 450103 3 takes / D.E.T.S. Vol. 1. 450407 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 450505 // MM 190: "written for and premiered by Paul Whiteman".
Body And Soul (Heyman - Sour - Eyton - Green) The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 401001 takes 2 and 3 / The Jimmy Blanton Era 401001 / Indiana Live Session 4506 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 6. 450623 / DEMS Azure CA-8 500531, jam session w. DE, Don Byas, J. Hamilton / D.E. 1952 at Carnegie Hall 521114, guest: Dizzy Gillespie / Ellington '55 550518 / I'm Beginning To See The Light 550518 / The Unusual Ellington 550611 / D.E.'s Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene 580402/03 / Paul Gonsalves, Finn Enger accordion, (a.o.) on: (accompanying CD to) Randi Hultin: Born Under the Sign of Jazz 581105 / Paul Gonsalves on: John Lewis: The Wonderful World of Jazz 600908 / Piano In The Foreground 610301 / Paul Gonsalves: Tell it the way it is! + Cleopatra Feelin' Jazzy 630904 // Benny Goodman 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert 380116 / Roy Eldridge 3811 / Coleman Hawkins 391011 / Billie Holiday, A Portrait of 400229 / Glenn Miller 400510 / Thelonious Monk: After Hours At Minton's 4105 w. Roy Eldridge, Herbie Fields / Lester Young - Nat King Cole Trio 420715 on: The Lester Young Story / Ben Webster 44 / Roy Eldridge: Minor Jive 440626 / Boyd Raeburn: Jubilee Performances 1946, arr. George Handy / Milt Jackson & Sonny Stitt: In the Beginning 4804 / South Pacific Jazz, with Oscar Pettiford late 51-520117 / Benny Goodman Octet 5503 at "Basin Street", NY. / Charlie Smith Trio 560822 feat. Oscar Pettiford / Max Roach + 4 561012 / Tony Scott and the All Stars, with Coleman Hawkins 5808 / Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul (West Wind 2018) 610716 / Benny Carter: Further Definitions 611115, with Coleman Hawkins / Benny Goodman in Moscow 1962. 620701-08 / Thelonious Monk on: Monk Alone 621031 / Thelonious Monk on: Monk Alone 621101 take 2 & 3 / Paul Griffin: Hammond Swing ca. 1965 / The Louie Bellson Quintet: Raincheck 780503/04 // one of the arrangements played by D.E. may be by MLW. Linda Dahl: Morning Glory p. 434, Compositions and/or Arrangements by Mary Lou Williams for the Ellington Orch., 1940s through 1960s // Cf. Gary Giddins: Fifty Years of "Body and Soul", in: Robert Gottlieb (ed.): Reading Jazz. - Fred Hall: Johnny Green [An Interview with the composer of Body and Soul]. In: Robert Gottlieb (ed.): Reading Jazz.
Bohemia After Dark (Pettiford) arr. Pettiford: Oscar Pettiford. Bethlehem BET 6017-2 (mid-fifties) / Jimmy Hamilton and the New York Jazz Quintet 1955 /
Bojangles (Ellington) The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 400504 (previously unissued) and 400528 / Ko-Ko 400528 / The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 400528 / Fargo 401107 / Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 // Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: Portraits by Ellington 910810-11 / Tom Talbert: Duke' Domain 9110 // Version for piano in: Duke Ellington at the Piano (1943) // A portrait of dancer Bill Robinson
Boll Weevil Ballet (Strayhorn) Strayhorn. The Dutch Jazz Orch.: So This Is Love 971013-17 or 991028 // From Beggar's Holiday /
Bonga (Ellington) Afro Bossa 630104 // subtitled Empty Town Blues
Boo-Dah (Boodah) (Strayhorn) The Rare Broadcast Recordings 1953 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 530430 / Serenade To Sweden (feat. Ray Nance) 620524 or 25 / The Feeling of Jazz 620525 / Jump For Joy 620525 / 5 LP set dto. / „...and his mother called him Bill" 670828 / En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées (= The Champs-Elysees Theater Jan. 29-30th, 1965) 650129-30 // Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available
Boogie Bop Blues (Ellington) Primping For The Prom 471005 / 1947 The Chronological D.E. 471006 // See DEMS Bulletin 00/3 p. 12f.:. Basso Mo Thundo, Basso Profundo, Grand Slam Jam; Non-Violent Integration; Who Struck John
Boola see Bula
Boola, Boola (Allen Hirsch) Yale Concert 680126 /
Bottle It (Skip Hall) Russell Procope's Big Six, with Harold Baker. Recorded fall, 1946. On: Giants of Small Band Swing Vol. 1.
Bounce (Ellington) Hollywood 1941 410115 /
Bouncing With Ben (Hodges) Johnny Hodges: Master of Jazz 601122 or 23 /
Bouquet Of Roses (Hodges - Mercer Ellington) Johnny Hodges and the Ellington Men: The Big Band Sound Of Johnny Hodges 570903 /
Bourbon Street Jingling Jollies (Ellington) New Orleans Suite 700427 / 1965-1972. 700723 /
Boy In My Dreams, The (Mercer Ellington) Serenade To Sweden (w. Alice Babs) 630301 // = The Girl In My Dreams
Boy Meets Horn (Stewart - Ellington - Mills) The Smithsonian Collection: Duke Ellington 1938. 381222 / D.E. Vol. 2: Battle of Swing 38 / DEMS Azure CA-4 390315 / The Radio Years 1940-1945. 400610 / The British Connexion 400612 / Fargo 401107 / Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 / 1942-1944 The Chronological D.E. 431108 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943. Circle 101. 431108, 2 takes / D.E.T.S. Vol. 6. 450616 / West Coast Tour 510630 / The Rare Broadcast Recordings 1951 // Benny Carter & his. orch. (radio transcriptions 1945-1948), with Rex Stewart / The Chronological Rex Stewart 1946-1947 471125 & 471208 /
Braggin' In Brass (Ellington - H. Nemo - J. Mills) The Smithsonian Collection: Duke Ellington 1938. 380303 / Rendezvous with Rhythm 380303 / D.E. Vol. 2: Battle of Swing 38 // From: Cotton Club Parade
Brasilliance (Ellington) Latin American Suite 681105 /
Breakfast Dance (Ellington, c. 1930) D.E. a. his Cotton Club Orch. 291114 /
Britt And Butter Blues (Ellington) D.E. and the Ellingtonians 510518 /
Broad Stream (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-9 630223 // See also E.S.P.
Broadway Babe (Mercer Ellington - J. Hodges) Mercer Ellington: Steppin' Into Swing Society 580722 arr. Andy Gibson / Mercer Ellington a. h. orch.: Black and Tan Fantasy 580722 /
Brotherhood, The (Ellington) Third Sacred Concert 731024 // A tribute to the United Nations.
Brown (second movement of BBB) (Ellington) Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 /
Brown Betty (Ellington - Strayhorn) Carnegie Hall Concert Vol. 1. 481113 / Cornell University II 481210 / 1941-1951 510524 // Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available (from 1946; „one of the few works from the ill-fated Broadway Show Beggar's Holiday to find its place in the Ellington band repertory. Solo: alto." In 1951: Ray Nance, in the background: Willie Smith)
Brown Penny (Ellington - John Latouche) Blues In Orbit 591202 // From the interracial musical of 1946, Beggar's Holiday /
Brown Skin Gal In The Calico Gown , The (Ellington - Webster) Ella Fitzgerald and D.E.: Ella At Duke's Place 6511 / The D.E. Orch.: Music Is My Mistress 880722/23 or 880801 // Tom Talbert: Duke' Domain 9206 // Version for piano in: Duke Ellington at the Piano (1943) /
Brown Suede (Mercer Ellington)
Brute's Roots (Hodges) Johnny Hodges: Master of Jazz 601122 or 23 // Brute = Ben Webster
Buffet Flat (Ellington) The Smithsonian Collection: Duke Ellington 1938. 380809 /
Bugle Breaks (D. Ellington - Mercer Ellington - Strayhorn) Hollywood 1941 411203 / Broadcasts 1940/41 411203 / Live Sessions 1943/1945 450818 /
Bugle Call Rag (J. Pettis - O. Hardwick - J. Kapp; Pettis - Schoebel - Meyers) Bugle Call Rag 28 / 1931-1932 320209 // The Metronome All Stars 410116 /
Bula (= Afro Bossa aka Nova Exotique) (Ellington) The Great Paris Concert 6302 / DEMS Azure CA-11 630202 1st concert / In the Uncommon Market ; probably 63 Jan/Feb // Cf. „Boola", D.E.'s unwritten opera (D.E. Reader). "Boola," says Ellington, is the name Negro historians use to symbolize their race. "If they want to tell you that Negroes took part in this or that event," said Ellington, "they will say 'Boola was there.' My opera traces Boola's whole history in four scenes. The first scene is laid in Africa. The music there is mostly imaginary, because no one today knows what African Negro music was like in these days of the early slave trades. The second scene is Negro life in slave times, the third, Negro life in the period after the Civil war, and the fourth, Negro life today. There isn't any continuous plot, but there is one symbolic figure - Boola himself - who appears throughout." (Alfred Frankenstein in the San Francisco Cronicle of 9Nov41) The "Boola was there" quote also appeared in Irving Kolodin's annotation for "Black, Brown and Beige" in the 23Jan43 Carnegie Hall program: "'Boola' is the term Negroes use to symbolize the perpetual spirit of the race through time. Thus when a discussion of some important phase of American history is under way - Valley Forge, for example - one of the group is sure to say: 'Yes, 'Boola' was there all right' - referring to some heroic Negro little known to the white man who made a valiant contribution to the Revolutionary cause." (Quotations assembled by Sjef Hoefsmit). - In DEMS Bulletin 02/3 p. 11 no. 3 Graham Peacock gives further explanations. - Cf. Tadd Dameron: Bula-Beige (on Fontainebleau). - "BEULAH, bu´lü, a region described in Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan ... where there is nothing to annoy and all sounds are agreeable." The Encyclopedia Americana 1949 vol. 3, p. 597. - Beulah, in the Bible, is Israel. - The land of Beulah: the land of joy and delight. - Modern novels: Lonnie Coleman: Beulah Land. - Angela Carter: The Passion of the New Eve (where Beulah is the city of women).
Bunny Hop Mambo (Ray Anthony - Leonard Anletti) 100 Years Duke. Famous Birthday Sessions 540429 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 540429 /
Burgundy Walk (John Fitzgerald - Ed Hodges) Johnny Hodges & His Orch.: Used to Be Duke 540702 /
Buss see Right On Togo
Butter And Oleo! (Ellington) The Private Collection Vol. 4 630418 // Quentin Jackson and Shorty Baker
C Blues [see C Jam Blues]
C Jam Blues [see also Duke's Place] (Ellington) The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 410926 / The Duke And His Men 420121 / Take The A Train. Dreyfus Jazz 420121 / The Arrival Of Billy Strayhorn 420121 / 1941-1951 420121 / 1942-1944 The Chronological D.E. 420121 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943. Circle 101. 431108 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 4. 450519 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 5 450609 / The Radio Years 1940-1945. 451228 / 1945-1946 The Chronological D.E. 460116 / D.E. and the Ellingtonians 5010 / Archive of Jazz Vol. 31 (Trio) 501003 / D.E. At Birdland - 1952 521124 / D.E. 1953-1955 53-55 / 100 Years Duke. Famous Birthday Sessions 530430 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 530430 / The Private Collection Vol. 10 580305 / C-Jam All Stars (Gonsalves, Terry a.o.): 581113 / DEMS Azure CA-2 590920 / Blues In Orbit 591202 / Johnny Hodges and the Ellingtonians 610314 / Feat. Paul Gonsalves 620511 / The Great London Concerts 630122 / Serenade To Sweden (feat. Ray Nance) 6302 / 5 LP set 630206 / Serenade To Sweden (w. Alice Babs) 630301 / DEMS Azure CA-28 Serenade To Sweden 630301 / Jump For Joy 630602 / All Star Road Band Vol. 2. 640531 / En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées (= The Champs-Elysees Theater Jan. 29-30th, 1965) 650129-30 / Hodges, Johnny: Triple Play 670109/10 / The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World 6706-07 / The Private Collection vol. 6 681203 / Togo Brava Suite (Blue Note) 711022 / The London Concert 7110 / Live at the Whitney 720410 / DEMS Azure CA-8 720505 / DEMS Azure CA-20 720623 / The D.E. Orch.: Music Is My Mistress 880722/23 or 880801 // Part B of „Concerto For Duke", arr. George Williams. Boyd Raeburn: The Transcription Performances 1946 / Fletcher Henderson's Sextet 1950 501220 or 21 / Wild Bill Davis & His Men 641203 (LP RCA Masters. Disque Catalogue Jazz) / Hines & Eldridge Vol. 1 6503 / Jimmy Hamilton: As Time Goes By 850924 / Clark Terry and Red Mitchell: To Duke & Basie 860128 / Randy Weston: Portraits of D.E. 890604 / Jimmy Smith: Got My Mojo Workin' / Grover Mitchell & his all-star orch.: Hip Shakin' 900618 or 19 arr. Eric Dixon /
Café Au Lait (Ellington - Strayhorn) Such Sweet Thunder (2 takes) 561206 /
Californio Mello (Ellington) The Private Collection Vol. 10 580305 // occurs in The River or The Degas Suite
Caline see Silk Lace
Calyph (aka What Else Can You Do With A Drum, from Drum Is A Woman; Ellington - Strayhorn) En Concert avec Europe 1: Alhambra 581029 / Only God Can Make A Tree. The D.E. Orch. Conducted by Mercer Ellington ca. 95. Arr. by Christopher Cherney / Claude Bolling Big Band: A Drum Is A Woman 960404/05 //
Cambridge Blues (Hodges) Johnny Hodges: Master of Jazz 601122 or 23 /
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (O. Hammerstein - J. Kern) Strayhorn. The Dutch Jazz Orch.: You Go To My Head 991025-28 //
Can't You Read Between The Lines? (Julie Styne - Sammy Kahn) D.E.T.S. Vol. 5 450609 /
Candy (Kramer - Whitney - David) D.E.T.S. Vol. 2. 450428 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 4. 450526 /
Candy Cane (Jimmy Jones - Harry Carney) Harry Carney: Rare Dates Without the Duke 460318 /
Caravan (D. Ellington - I. Mills - J. Tizol) Barney Bigard and his Jazzopaters on: 1936-1937 The Chronological D.E. 361219 / Caravan (Small Groups/Solos 1936-1947) 361219 / 1932 - 1941 370514 / Broadcasts 1940/41 400901 / Fargo Encores 401107 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 1. 4306 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943. Circle 102. 431109 / The Arrival Of Billy Strayhorn 450510 / Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 450511 / Take The A Train. Dreyfus Jazz 450511 / 1941-1951 450511 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 450512 / Carnegie Hall Concerts Jan. 1946 460104 / The Great Chicago Concerts 460120 / DEMS Azure CA-4 510123 / D.E. and the Ellingtonians 510601 / Seattle Concert 520325 / 2 Great Concerts 5203 (N.Y.) / D.E. 1952 at Carnegie Hall 521114 (medley) / D.E. At Birdland - 1952 521124 / 100 Years Duke. Famous Birthday Sessions 530430 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 530430 / D.E. 1953-1955 540208 (?) / Lawrence Brown: Slide Trombone 550126 / Lawrence Brown on: D.E. & Friends 5601 / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook (Verve) 570627 / The Private Collection Vol. 10 580305 / Cootie Williams in Hi-Fi 580305 / Feat. Paul Gonsalves 620501 / Money Jungle 620917 / The Great London Concerts 640220 / Harlem 640309 / 5 LP set 640311 / Live at Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 2 640329 / New York Concert 640520 / D.E.: Live and Rare 65 (fall) / Soul Call 660726 / 1969 All-Star Tribute to Duke Ellington 690429 / April in Paris Feat. Wild Bill Davis 69(1101?) part of a medley / Live at the Whitney 720410 / D.E. In Sweden 1973 feat. Alice Babs 731025 / DEMS Azure CA-15 731025 / The Duke At Tanglewood / D.E. Orch.: Only God Can Make A Tree / Ellington, Mercer: Hot And Bothered 840722 / Only God Can Make A Tree. The D.E. Orch. Conducted by Mercer Ellington ca. 95 // Bunny Berigan 370818 / The Mills Brothers 38 - a mock performance on the lowest level / Edgar Hayes a. h. orch. 1937-1938 / Ray Linn Octet 45012 or 4601 (on: Boyd Raeburn: Jubilee Performances) / Dizzy Gillespie: Afro 540603 / George Shearing Quintet w. Cal Tjader, Toots Thielemans 1955 / Dizzy Gillespie with the Orchestra: One Night In Washington 550313 / Thelonious Monk Plays D.E.; also on: Oscar Pettiford Memorial Album 5507 / Bob Stewart Sings with the Mat Mathews' Quintet 56. With Oscar Pettiford, Kenny Clarke / Gillespie: A Portrait of D.E. 600427/28 arr. Clare Fischer / Coleman Hawkins: Body and Soul (West Wind 2018) 610716: feat. Jo Jones / Dollar Brand: Ode to Duke Ellington 731212 / Hollywood „Pops" Orchester: motion in percussion (sixties?) / Randy Weston: Portraits of D.E. 890604 / Bob Brookmeyer: Gloomy Sunday (arr. Ralph Burns) / Edelhagen 1950 / Mary Lou Williams at Rick's Cafe Americain, Chicago 791114 / Michel Camilo 1993 on: Thanks Duke. Tribute to Duke Ellington / Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Wolfgang Puschnig: Gemini 1991 / Die Pneuphoniker 020825 / „evolved from another tune, Alabamy Home. … Caravan was the obbligato strain." Boy Meets Horn p. 189 / An arrangement by Herbie Jones (Cootie's Caravan, cf. Patricia Willard's Herbie Jones obituary in DEMS Bulletin 01/1 p. 4) /
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Carney (Rick Henderson) Mercer Ellington: The D.E. Orch.: Continuum 750106 or 07 /
Carnival In Caroline (Ellington - H. Nemo - J. Mills) Rendezvous with Rhythm 380303 and 380404 // From: Cotton Club Parade
Carolina Shout (James P. Johnson) New York Concert 640520, played by Willie "The Lion" Smith / 2 Great Concerts 65 (Europe) / En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées (= The Champs-Elysees Theater Jan. 29-30th, 1965) 650129-30 / D.E.: Live and Rare 680228 // James P. Johnson 211018, 440815 / Fats Waller 410513 /
Carribee Joe (Ellington - Strayhorn) A Drum Is A Woman 5609-12 // Claude Bolling Big Band 960404/05 //
Carribee Joe - Part 2 (Ellington - Strayhorn) A Drum Is A Woman 5609-12 // Claude Bolling Big Band 960404/05 //
Cashmere Cutie (Strayhorn) DJO: Portrait Of A Silk Thread 950108-08 // Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available
Cat Walk (Cat Anderson) The Coronets on: D.E. and the Ellingtonians 510417 /
Cat's Boogie (Cat Anderson?) Cat Anderson a. h. orch. 470514, on: Earl Hines and the Duke's Men
Chalmeau (Harry Carney - Billy Strayhorn) Harry Carney w. Strings 541213, arr. Ray Biondi /
Change My Ways (Maybe I Should ...) (Ellington - Latouche) 1946-1947 The Chronological D.E 470814 / 1947 The Chronological D.E. 471001 & 471006 / The Rare Broadcast Recordings 1953 / 100 Years Duke. Famous Birthday Sessions 540429 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 540429 / The Unusual Ellington 540429 /
Change Of Mind (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-29 690523; several takes of 4 parts called A, B, C, D. // Prerecordings for the soundtrack of the picture. Cf. Stratemann p. 587 ff. On p. 588 Stratemann lists for 690523: Main title, Wanderlust, Black Butterfly, Echoes Of Harlem (Blue Mood), Neo Creole, + additional score recordings. Cf. also note 3 on p. 589. /
Chant For FDR (American Lullaby) (Ellington) D.E.T.S. Vol. 1. 450414 /
Chant Of The Weed (Don Redman) Recollections Of The Big Band Era 621129; CD says that it was arr. by Strayhorn. More probably this is Don Redman's arr. for the D.E. Orch., revised by Ellington and Strayhorn. // Don Redman: Doin' What I Please 310924 / Don Redman a. h. orch. 320617 (orig. as Harlan Lattimore a. h. orch.) / Don Redman and his Orch. 400117 / Gil Evans Orch. 590205 // The weed: kraut, tobacco, marihuana. The song uses the bridge of Mood Indigo. (Another tune, recorded by Redman at the same date, quotes Mood Indigo in the introduction: Shakin' The African.) Refined instrumentation. It has an over all concept: it is a concerto for alto saxophone and orch. So it couldn't fail to find Duke's interest. D.E. 1939: „Redman has performed phenomenal feats in orchestration… We shall never forget the Chant of the Weed and its effectiveness." Reader 139f. - Bows from one genius to the other. MIMM 95 says: Redman did an arr. for D.E. to record 21 years after he wrote it, Redman first rec. it in 1931. It should say: 31 one years after; that would be 1962. Fred Sturm p. 8: Don Redman "was commissioned by Duke Ellington to arrange the piece for Ellington's 1962 Recollections of the Big Band Era recording. Redman's score for the Ellington Orchestra (found fully intact in the Smithsonian Duke Ellington Collection in 1991 by Andrew Homzy) was never recorded; Ellington and Billy Strayhorn made numerous revisions to Chant of the Weed before it went to vinyl, providing the added arranging perspectives of the two great masters." - Fred Sturm discusses several arrangements of Chant of the Weed in his study: Changes Over Time: The Evolution of Jazz Arranging.
Charade (Mercer - Mancini) Ellington '66 640519 /
Charlie The Chulo (Ellington) Caravan (Small Groups/Solos 1936-1947) 401111 ld. Barney Bigard / I'm Beginning To See The Light 401111 / The Great Ellington Soloists 401111 // Chulo is (Cuban) Spanish.
Charlotte Russe (aka Lotus Blossom) (Strayhorn) Johnny Hodges: The Complete 1941-1954 Small Group Sessions. Vol. I. Late 47 // Copyright registered as Hominy (Strayhorn) in 1945. Registered as All Roads Lead Back To You in 1946 (Allen Roy, words; D.E. & Strayhorn, Music); alternate title: Lotus Blossom. - See also Lotus Blossom.
Charpoy (= Lana Turner/Anal Renrut/Francesca) (Strayhorn) „...and his mother called him Bill" 671116 / 1965-1972. 710513 // DJO: Portrait Of A Silk Thread 950106-08 // Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available. "Anal Renrut" was invented by Tom Whaley.
Chasin' Chippies (Ellington) Caravan (Small Groups/Solos 1936-1947) 380802 ld. Cootie Williams / Rendezvous with Rhythm 380802 /
Chatterbox (Stewart - Ellington - Mills) DEMS Azure CA-4 380429 / The British Connexion 381006 / Fargo Encores 400907 / Fargo 401107 /
Checkered Hat (N. Turney) Togo Brava Suite (Storyville) 710223 / Togo Brava Suite (Blue Note) 711024 / The London Concert 7110 / D.E. In Sweden 1973 feat. Alice Babs 731025 /
| Chelsea Bridge (Strayhorn) Take The A Train. Dreyfus Jazz 410917 / Masters of Jazz 410917 / Hollywood 1941 410917 / The Duke And His Men 411202 / 1941-1951 411202 / Ben Webster w. Strings 540528; arr. & p Strayhorn / Ballads by Ben Webster 540528 / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook (Verve) 570627 (with rehearsal) / Ballads by Ben Webster 5807 / The Soul of Ben Webster 5807 / The Complete Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster Sessions 591103, 2 takes / Billy Strayhorn: The Peaceful Side 6001 / En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées (= The Champs-Elysees Theater Jan. 29-30th, 1965) 650129-30 / Duke Ellington Masters (DVD) 650131 / Berlin '65, Paris '67. 650203 / Concert in the Virgin Islands 650414 / 1969 All-Star Tribute to Duke Ellington 690429 / Billy Strayhorn: Something To Live For 971013-020131 // Tommy Flanagan on: The Legendary Years, Vol. 3. 570815 / Gillespie: A Portrait of D.E. 600427/28 arr. Clare Fischer / Milt Jackson: Big Band Bags (arr. Melba Liston) 630805 / Mitchell-Ruff Duo 70-71 / Tom Talbert: Duke' Domain 930518/19 / Joe Henderson Big Band / Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available / Music in RB p. 17 / Aebersold: Ballads |  |
Cherokee (Ray Noble) ; arr. D.E: Recollections Of The Big Band Era 630104 // Count Basie & his orch. 390203 on: The Lester Young Story / Bud Powell 4905 / Leroy Holmes & his orch 1958, on: The Golden Sounds of the Big Bands / Esquivel: Infinity in Sound Vol. 2 60 / Quincy Jones Big Band Lausanne 600627; arr. Ernie Wilkins / Ted Heath: Swing Is King. P. 1969 /
Cherry (Don Redman - Gilbert) Billy Strayhorn: Cue For Saxophone 590414 // McKinney's Cotton Pickers 280712 / The Chocolate Dandies (The Big Aces) 280929 /
Chicago (Fisher) The British Connexion 330713 two takes /
Chicago Stomp Down (H. Creamer - J. Johnson) Bugle Call Rag 28 /
Chico Quadradino (D. Ellington - Mercer Ellington) Latin American Suite 681105 (2nd part of Latin American Suite; remake of the first part of Mexican Suite. Stems from the counterpart of Perdido)
Chief (Natoma from Tacoma) (Mary Lou Williams) Linda Dahl: Morning Glory, p. 428: "Mary's composition, in a new arrangement, is on CD SAJA Records 791045-2, The Private Collection, Vol. 5, The Suites, New York 1968 and 1970, in The River. A second arrangement of "Chief" is on CD Pablo OJCCD-446-2, The Ellington Suites, in the UWis Suite."
Chinoiserie (Ellington) The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse 710217 / 5 LP set 711109 / Cool Rock 720612 / DEMS Azure CA-20 720623 / DEMS Azure CA-6 721005 // "After Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet, arr. by Ellington and Billy Strayhorn." (Cool Rock) /
Chloe (G. Kahn - N. Moret) The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 401028 / Ko-Ko 401028 / The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 401028 / At His Very Best 401028 / Fargo Encores 401107 // Horace Henderson and his Orch. 400508 // Schuller, Swing Era p. 130: „a quite confused arr. by Billy Strayhorn"
Chocataw (Gonsalves) Paul Gonsalves: Ellingtonia Moods & Blues 600229 /
Choo Choo (Gotta Hurry Home) (Ellington - Ringle - Schafer) 1924-1927 2411 // Brooks Kerr: Soda Fountain Rag 75. With Sonny Greer /
Chopsticks D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943 & 1945. Circle 103. 431201 MLW co-arranger; see Dahl: MLW p. 428 // Benny Carter: Harlem Renaissance 9202 (titled Chow Chow), with one of Carter's patented sax section soli choruses /
Christmas Song, The () Mercer Ellington: Take The Holiday Train 800728-29 /
Christmas Surprise, A (MM: 1965 Ellington - Strayhorn; Lyrics by Rev. Dean J. Bartlett) DEMS Azure CA-19 651226 Strayhorn and Lena Horne. See MM 266
Christopher Columbus (Andy Razaf - Leon Berry) arr. D.E.: Recollections Of The Big Band Era 621129 // Benny Goodman 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert 380116 arr. Fletcher Henderson /
Chromatic Love Affair, A (Ellington) (D.E.: „a half-step at a time") DEMS Azure CA-26 670310 / DEMS Azure CA-14 early 67? / DEMS Azure CA-14 670623 / The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World 6706-07 / Yale Concert 680126 // Randy Weston: Portraits of D.E. 890604 /
Chuckles (C. Terry) Jimmy Hamilton and the New York Jazz Quintet 1955 /
Circe (Ellington) The Great Chicago Concerts 460120 // Circe changed Ulysses's companions into swine. In the original program notes from 1943, Ellington was quoted as hoping Brown's solo would "have the same effect Circe had." (Cf. Stanley Dance: Notes to The Great Chicago Concerts).
Circle Blues (Ellington) The Private Collection Vol. 2 620329 /
Circle Of Fourths (Ellington - Strayhorn) The Private Collection Vol. 2 570129 / Such Sweet Thunder (2 takes) 570503 // Big Band Ritmo Sinfonica "Città di Verona".: A Tribute to Duke Ellington. 98 / Vienna Art Orchestra: Duke Ellington's Sound of Love. Spring 99 /
Ciribiribin (A. Pestalozza) arr. D.E.: Recollections Of The Big Band Era (Strayhorn plays piano) 621211 // Perez Prado: Pops and Prado 590520 /
Clarinet Lament (= Barney's Cocerto) (Ellington - B. Bigard) 1935-1936 360227 / Masters of Jazz 360227 / 1932 - 1941 360227 / Fargo 40-11-7 /
Clarinet Melodrama (J. Hamilton) Live at the 1956 Stratford Festival 56-7-20 /
Clementine (Strayhorn) The Duke And His Men 410702 / Hollywood 1941 410917 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 450505 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 4511 / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook (Verve) 570626 /
Cleo [= Such Sweet Thunder]
Cleo's Blues (Paul Gonsalves) Gonsalves, Paul: Tell it the way it is! + Cleopatra Feelin' Jazzy 630521 /
Clothed Woman, The (Ellington) 1947-1948 The Chronological D.E.471230 / Carnegie Hall Concert 471227 / Caravan (Small Groups/Solos 1936-1947) 471230 /
Clouds In My Heart (Mills - Bigard - Ellington) 1931-1932 320518 / Barney Bigard and his Jazzopaters on: 1936-1937 The Chronological D.E. 361219 /
Cobb's Tune (Ellington - Cobb) The Unusual Ellington 540429 /
Cocktails For Two (Johnson - Coslow) Premiered by Duke 530406 // Was first performed by the band in a production scene of a picture titled "Murder At The Vanities" /
Coffee And Kisses (Ralph Freed - Frederick Hollander) 100 Years Duke. Famous Birthday Sessions 540429 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 540429 / (Strayhorn) The Unusual Ellington 540429 /
Collage No 3 (Gordon Delamont) Collages 73 /
Coloratura (The Perfume Suite 4; also known as Sophistication) (MM: 1945 and 1963 Ellington; but see Hajdu p. 292) Carnegie Hall Concert Dec. 1944. 441219 / Jazz Classic's (Poland) V-Disc 450407 / The Jazz Collector Edition 450724 / The Great Chicago Concerts 460120 // See also Perfume Suite.
Combo Suite, The see The Duke Ellington Small Bands: The Intimacy of the Blues, Selections 1-6 (1. The Intimacy of the Blues 2. Out South 3. Tell Me 'Bout My Baby 4. Kentucky Avenue, A.C. 5. Near North 6. Soul Country)
Come Easter (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-6 660221 /
Come Off The Veldt (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-20 720623 /
Come On Home (?) The Rare Broadcast Recordings 1953 /
Come Rain Or Come Shine (Arlen - Mercer) The Uncollected Vol. 2. 460711; also on Mr. Ellington // Ballads by Ben Webster 541215 arr. Ralph Burns / Bob Stewart Sings with the Mat Mathews' Quintet 56. With Oscar Pettiford, Kenny Clarke /
Come Sunday [Spiritual, BB & B parts IV and V] (Ellington) Masters of Jazz 441211 / Jazz Classic's (Poland) prob. 441211 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 2. 450428 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 5 450602 / Carnegie Hall Concerts Jan. 1946 460104 / DEMS Azure CA-18 720825 / Black, Brown and Beige 580211 / Black, Brown and Beige, Duke 100 years ed. 580211; a cappella 580212; instrumental 580212 / Serenade To Sweden (w. Alice Babs) 630301 / DEMS Azure CA-28 Serenade To Sweden 630301 / My People 6308/09 / En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées (= The Champs-Elysees Theater Jan. 29-30th, 1965) 650129-30 / DEMS Azure CA-19 650218 / The Private Collection Vol. 8 650301 / Concert Of Sacred Music 651226: 1. vocal, 2. instrumental, 3. dance (titled David Danced...) / 1969 All-Star Tribute to Duke Ellington 690429 / DEMS Azure CA-26 710522 // Gerald Wilson Orch. 4601 (Sampler: Groovin' High. LP hep 15) / Abbey Lincoln: Abbey Is Blue / Gillespie: A Portrait of D.E. 600427/28 arr. Clare Fischer / Ben Webster & Joe Zawinul: Soulmates 63 / Dollar Brand: Ode to Duke Ellington 731212 / Snooky Young & Marshal Royal: Snooky & Marshal's Album 78 / Music in RB p. 88 // See also Black, Brown & Beige.
Come To Baby, Do! (Inez James - Sidney Miller) 1945-1946 The Chronological D.E. 450908 / Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 451008 / The Arrival Of Billy Strayhorn 451008 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 4511 /
Comme Ci, Comme Ca (B. Coquatrix) Midnight in Paris 620131 / Ellington Fantasies 620131 /
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Concerto For Cootie (Ellington) The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 400315 / Ko-Ko 400315 / Masters of Jazz 400315 / 1932 - 1941 400315 / At His Very Best 400315 / The Radio Years 1940-1945. 400610 / The British Connexion 400612 / DEMS Azure CA-1 400729 / The Great Paris Concert 6302 (this is actually "New Concerto For Cootie" by Williams - Fraser, arr. by Bill Stegmeyer) // Version for piano in: Duke Ellington at the Piano (1943) / Transcription of the full score in Rattenbury: D.E. Jazz Composer / Analysis by Hodeir in D.E. Reader / Martin Williams: The Jazz Tradition p. 114 states that portions of the Concerto had been previously tested: the forceful B melody is an adaptation of one of Cootie's blues phrases, one which introduces the 1938 Mobile Blues. The coda is an adaptation of one Ellington used on Moonglow in 1935. // Cf.: Do Nothin'..., New Concerto… / |
Concerto For Klinkers (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-29 010306 D.E. Repertory Orch. led by Tony Faulkner (student band) /
Confab With Rab (Hodges) Hodges: Duke's In Bed 560901 /
Cong-Go (Ellington - Aaron Bell) Piano In The Foreground 610301 // Uses the rhythm of the Conga, a Cuban dance, that was eventually simplified, and given the one-two-three-kick format. Sometimes mockingly quoted by the beboppers, cf. Charlie Parker: The Complete Live Performances On Savoy. Loren Schoenberg calls it (p. 28) "Parker's patented two-measure long-phrase with the syncopated ending on the upbeat of the second beat, which the rhythm section seems prepared to pick up at the slightest hint."
Conga Brava (Ellington - J. Tizol; arr. Strayhorn) 1932 - 1941 400315 / The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 400315 / Ko-Ko 400315 / Fargo 401107 / Mercer Ellington: The D.E. Orch.: Continuum 750107 /
Congo Square (aka Matumbe; Ellington - Strayhorn) A Drum Is A Woman 5609-12 / DEMS Azure CA-9 611010 // Claude Bolling Big Band: A Drum Is A Woman 960404/05 //
Contrasts (Jimmy Dorsey) arr. Bill Stegmeyer: Cootie Williams In Hi-Fi 580305 / arr. D.E.: Recollections Of The Big Band Era 621220 // Ted Heath: Swing Is King. P. 1969 /
Controversial Suite (Ellington) Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown 511211 // 2 parts: Before My Time / Later
Cool And Groovy (Ellington) The Private Collection vol. 6 681203 /
Cool Rock (Ellington) Cool Rock 650520 /
Cootie's Caravan see Caravan
Cootie's Concerto see Echoes of Harlem
Cop Out (Ellington) Primping For The Prom 570313 / All Star Road Band 570601 / D.E. Live at the Newport Jazz Festival '59 590704 / DEMS Azure CA-11 630202 1st concert / The Great Paris Concert 6302 // A blues vamp, orig. used as the 12th part of Such Sweet Thunder (Town Hall 28Apr57). Hajdu p. 161: "... only eleven of its twelve movements were ready that night. As a finale, Ellington told the band to vamp on the blues, and he announced to the audience that the orchestra would now perform the conclusion of the suite, a movement entitled 'Cop-Out'. No one laughed, Avakian recalled. 'It was such a straight crowd that they didn't even know they were being put on.' " - The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang: "cop-out n. 2. [...] Orig. Jazz & Und. a pretext or means of evading or backing down; excuse ... [Gained nationwide currency ca 1965-68.]" - The first reference is: "1956 in Ellington Music My Mistress [sic] 507: Cop-Out." - Cf. Cop Out Extension (below).
Cop Out Extension (Ellington) Festival Session 590909 /
Coral Rock (Mercer Ellington)
Cordon Bleu (Ellington) The Private Collection Vol. 3 620913 /
Corner Pocket (aka Until I Met You) (Freddie Green - Don Wolf) Battle Royal 610706 / First Time! Duke 100 Years 610706 // Joe Newman Octet 550208 arr. Ernie Wilkins /
Cotton (Koehler - Bloom) 1935-1936 350819 /
Cotton Club Parade see Braggin' In Brass, Carnival In Caroline, I'm Slappin' Seventh Avenue (With The Sole Of My Shoe), If You Were In My Place, Baby (What Would You Do), Lesson In C, Skrontch, Swingtime In Honolulu
Cotton Club Stomp (Wall Street Wail) (Hodges - Carney - Ellington) D.E. a. his Cotton Club Orch. 290412 / At The Cotton Club 290503 / Cotton Club Days 300422 /
Cotton Tail (Shuckin' and Stiffin') (Ellington - Fitzgerald; Ellington - Hudson) In A Mellotone 400504 / The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 400504 / Ko-Ko 400504 / Masters of Jazz 400504 / 1932 - 1941 400504 / The Radio Years 1940-1945. 400610 / The British Connexion 400612 / Fargo Encores 401107 / Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 / Indiana Live Session 4506 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 6. 450616. Willie Timner: "Cotton Tail is considered to be one of the most important compositions of Duke Ellington. It has already distinct Bop characteristics and its flow and diction can only be described as masterful. Of course, it helped that Webster and Blanton were in the band at the time, but also listen closely to Sonny Greer's drumming. ... Here we are listening to a more mellow and less aggressive version ... Altogether, a very satisfying performance." / Live at the Club Zanzibar 451110 / Carnegie Hall Concert 471227 / Carnegie Hall Concert Vol. 1. 481113 / D.E. and the Ellingtonians 5010 / Archive of Jazz Vol. 31 (Trio) 501003 / The Bethlehem Years Vol. 2. 5602 / Presents the Soloists of his orch. 560207/08 / Stereophonic Sound of Duke Ellington ca. 1960 / Louis Armstrong & D.E.: The Great Reunion 610404 / Louis Armstrong & D.E. 610404 / The Private Collection Vol. 2 620606 / Jazz Violin Session 630222 / DEMS Azure CA-7 630222 (prev. unissued version) / Ella At Duke's Place 6511 / DEMS Azure CA-8 660207 2nd concert / The Stockholm Concert, 1966 / The Private Collection vol. 5 661228 / The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World 6706-07 / Togo Brava Suite (Blue Note) 711024 / The London Concert 7110 / Mercer Ellington: Digital Duke 87 / (arr. M.E.) The D.E. Orch.: Music Is My Mistress 880722/23 or 880801 // The Chronological Rex Stewart 1946-1947 471205 / Ben Webster: Birdland 1952 / Ben Webster on: D.E. & Friends 530521 / Kenny Clarke Meets The Detroit Jazz Men 560430 / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook Vol. 2. 560904 / Benny Carter: Further Definitions 611115, with Hawkins; "retains the nearly classic saxophone writing from the Ellington-Webster version" - in a new arrangement, that is. / Earl Hines Orch. 660110 w. Ellingtonians / Louie Bellson: Prime Time 771103-04 / Temperley, Joe: Double Duke 981002 or 03 // Music in RB p. 95 / Analysis in Schuller: Swing Era p. 126 ff. / Webster's solo 1940 transcribed and analysed in Schuller: Swing Era p. 581 f. /
Countdown (Louis Bellson; arr. Art Wiggins) The Private Collection vol. 5 650923 /
Country Gal (Ellington) 1932 - 1941 391016 /
Court Session (Cat Anderson) D.E.T.S. Vol. 5 451118 /
Cowboy Rhumba (George - Reif - Ellington) 1947 The Chronological D.E. 470927 /
Creamy Brown (aka Sugarhill Penthouse; Ellington) (From BBB: Three Dances) Carnegie Hall Concert Dec. 1944. 441219 /
Creeper, The (Ellington) 1924-1927 261229 /
Creole Blues (Excerpt from Creole Rhapsody) Unknown Session 600714 /
Creole Love Call (Ellington, c. 1928) Masters of Jazz 271026 / At His Very Best 271026 / 1931-1932 320203 (medley) / It Don't Mean A Thing. Classic Recordings, Vol. 2: 320211 / Cotton Club Days 320211 / 1931-1932 320211 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 2. 4306 / Take The A Train. Dreyfus Jazz 431201 / 1942-1944 The Chronological D.E. 431201 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943. Circle 102. 431201 3 takes / The Legendary D.E. 431201 / Carnegie Hall Concert Dec. 1944. 441219 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 1. 450407 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 1. 450414 / Cornell University I 481210 introduces a fine concept: after the soloist a rest for the whole orch., then back to head; cf. Blues To Be There / 1941-1951 490901 / 1949-1950 The Chronological D.E. 490901 / D.E. At Birdland - 1952 521124 / 100 Years Duke. Famous Birthday Sessions 530430 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 530430 / The Bethlehem Years Vol. 1 560207/08 / En Concert avec Europe 1: Alhambra 581029 (medley) / D.E. At The Alhambra 581029 (medley) / DEMS Azure CA-13 581102 / DEMS Azure CA-30 590926 / Greatest Hits 630223 / DEMS Azure CA-2 630706 / Live at Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 1. 640329 (Medley) / The Popular D.E. 660510 / In the Sixties 660510 / The Duke Lives On (live 1966) / Live in Mexico 6809 / Memories of Duke 680923 or 28 / Johnny Hodges: Three Shades Of Blue. 700317 or 19 / D.E. In Sweden 1973 feat. Alice Babs 731025 / Eastbourne Performance 731201 / D.E.: Live and Rare 731201 / Ellington, Mercer: Hot And Bothered 840722 // Sy Oliver: Yes Indeed 730519 or 21 / D.E.s Timon Of Athens. Music Adapted By Stanley Silverman. 2 appearances (93?) / Temperley, Joe: Double Duke 981002 or 03 // The material comes from Camp Meetin Blues (King Oliver's Jazz Band 1923). See Mark Tucker: Ellington. The Early Years. 1991. Chapter 12: A Composer and his band (p. 237 ff.). The source: Barney Bigard's report in his book With Louis and the Duke 1985, p. 44, that cannot have escaped Tucker's notice, is not mentioned. /
Creole Rhapsody (Ellington) 1931-1932 310120 / Creole Rhapsody/Tiger Rag 310120 / 1931-1932 310611 / It Don't Mean A Thing. Classic Recordings, Vol. 2: 310611 / At The Cotton Club 310611 /
Crescendo In Blue (Ellington) Live at Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 1. 640329 // =Wailing Interval
Cross Town (Hodges) The Uncollected Vol. 1. 460328 / Mr. Ellington prob. 460328 /
Cue's Blue Now (Hodges - Strayhorn) Billy Strayhorn: Cue For Saxophone 590414 /
Cy Runs Rock Waltz (from BBB) (Ellington) The Private Collection vol. 8 650518 /
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