Improvisation, #2 (Ellington) The Great Chicago Concerts 461110 /
Improvisation-Marcia Regina (The Degas Suite; Ellington. Not in MM) The Private Collection vol. 7 681106 / DEMS Azure CA-29 681106 // aka Improvisations, The Queen's Guard, Marcia Regina, The Run /
Impulsive (Hodges) Gonsalves, Paul: Tell it the way it is! + Cleopatra Feelin' Jazzy 630904 /
In A Blue Summer Garden (Ellington; Strayhorn?) D.E. and the Ellingtonians 5011 // Became Blues To Be There, The Newport Jazz Festival Suite's second part.
In A Jam (Ellington) 1936-1937 The Chronological D.E. 360729 / Masters of Jazz 360729 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1945. Circle 105. 450807 / The Uncollected Vol. 3. 460717; also on Mr. Ellington // Charlie Barnet 380516 /
In A Little Red Cottage By The Sea (?) DEMS Azure CA-6 390429 // Swedish popular tune of the Day: "I En Röd Liten Stuga" /
In A Mellow Tone [In A Mellotone] (Ellington - M. Gabler) In A Mellotone 400905 / The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 400905 / Ko-Ko 400905 / The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 400905 / Fargo Encores 401028 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 450512 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 4. 451010 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 6. 451028 Willie Timner: "The melody is a derivative of Rose Room." / Live at the Club Zanzibar 451110 / Carnegie Hall Concerts Jan. 1946 460104 / The Great Chicago Concerts 460120 / The Bethlehem Years Vol. 1 560207/08 / Presents the Soloists of his orch. 560207/08 / 16 Top Tracks 581228 / Echoes of an Era (published 1958) / Blues In Orbit 591203 / Louis Armstrong & D.E.: The Great Reunion 610404 / Louis Armstrong & D.E. 610404 / 1969 All-Star Tribute to Duke Ellington 690429 / Togo Brava Suite (Blue Note) 711022 / The London Concert 7110 / Mercer Ellington: Digital Duke 87 // Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook Vol. 2 571017 / Chico Hamilton with Eric Dolphy: The Original Ellington Suite 580822 / The Complete Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster Sessions 591103, 2 takes / Gillespie: A Portrait of D.E. 600427/28 arr. Clare Fischer / Basie in Sweden 620809-12 arr. Frank Foster / Sathima Bea Benjamin: Embracing Jazz 7904 / Grover Mitchell & his all-star orch.: Hip Shakin' 900618/19 arr. Dennis Mackrel // Version for piano in: Duke Ellington at the Piano (1943) / Music in RB p. 222 // "... evolved through years out of improvisations on the harmonic foundation of Rose Room, which Elington first recorded in 1932." Stanley Dance: Notes to The Great Chicago Concerts.
In A Mizz (Haven Johnson - Charlie Barnet) D.E. Presents Ivie Anderson 390612 / The Duke In Boston 390726 // Cf. the title In A Mist (aka Bixology) by Bix Beiderbecke.
In A Sentimental Mood (Ellington - Irving Mills - Manny Kurtz, c. 1935) 1935-1936 350430 / 1932 - 1941 350430 / It Don't Mean A Thing 350430 / Caravan (Small Groups/Solos 1936-1947) 361221 p-solo / 1936-1937 The Chronological D.E. 361221 / Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 450514 / Take The A Train. Dreyfus Jazz 450514 / 1941-1951 450514 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 4. 450519 / DEMS Azure CA-4 510123 / D.E. 1952 at Carnegie Hall 521114 (medley) / Piano Reflections 530414 / D.E. 1953-1955 530414 / The Private Collection Vol. 1 57 late january / Duke Ellington & John Coltrane 620926 / D.E. in the Uncommon Market ; probably 63 Jan/Feb (Gonsalves!) / Jazz Violin Session 630222 / DEMS Azure CA-14 630608 / Live at the Rainbow Grill 670817 / The Private Collection vol. 6 681123 / 1969 All-Star Tribute to Duke Ellington 690429 / DEMS Azure CA-20 720623 // Glenn Miller 390720 arr. Jerry Gray / Milt Jackson 560123 on: Kenny Clarke: Telefunken Blues / Chico Hamilton with Eric Dolphy: The Original Ellington Suite 580822 / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook Vol. 2. 560904 / Jimmy Hamilton and his Orch.: Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet 6007; arr. Hamilton. With three baritone horns / Joya Sherrill sings Duke 650112 / Archie Shepp: On This Night 65 / Ben Webster: For The Guv'nor 690516 / Jimmy Heath: Love And Understanding 730611 / Dollar Brand: Ode to Duke Ellington 731212 / Roland Kirk: Boogie Woogie String Along For Real 77 (?) / Sathima Bea Benjamin: Embracing Jazz 831007 / Tom Talbert: Duke' Domain 9206 / Oliver Nelson: Nocturne / Grover Washington 1988 on: Thanks Duke. Tribute to Duke Ellington / Aeb. D.E. music & lyrics / Music in RB p. 223 / B section w. bass sax and two basses arco 1935 in Schuller: Swing Era p. 71 /
In Duplicate (Ellington) D.E. In Sweden 1973 feat. Alice Babs 731025 / DEMS Azure CA-15 731025 /
In My Solitude [See Solitude]
In The Alley (L. Bellson) The Mercer Ellington Septet on: New Mood Indigo 660105 /
In The Beginning God (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-8 650920 last take, latter part / Concert Of Sacred Music 651226 // Cf. Olds II /
In The Hall Of The Mountain King [Selections from Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2] (Adaptation by Ellington) Swinging Suites… 600628-30 /
In The Mood (J. Garland - A. Razaf) Ellington '55 540101 / D.E. 1953-1955 540101 // Don Redman & his orch.: Hot And Anxious (Horace Henderson) 320630, has the riff that became "In The Mood" / Glenn Miller 390410 & 390801 / Perez Prado: Voodoo Suite & Exotic Suite of the Americas 550215 / Ted Heath: Swing Is King. P. 1969 /
In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree (Trad. / E. Van Alstyne - H. Williams) 1945 Vol. 2. The Chronological D.E. 450526 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 4. 450526 / The Legendary D.E. 450616 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1945. Circle 105. 450807 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 4. 451010 / Johnny Hodges: The Vogue Recordings 500620 /
In Triplicate (D.E.) 70th Birthday Concert 691126 /
Indelible (Mercer Ellington) Mercer Ellington: Steppin' Into Swing Society 580717 arr. M. E. / Mercer Ellington a. h. orch.: Black and Tan Fantasy 580717 /
Indian Summer (Herbert - Dubin) D.E. and the Ellingtonians 510518 / West Coast Tour 510606 / The Rare Broadcast Recordings 1951 / The Bethlehem Years Vol. 2. 5602 // Glenn Miller 391105 / Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers 400502, with Kenny Clarke /
Indiana (James F. Hanley - Ballard McDonald) Indiana Live Session 4506 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 6. 450616. Willie Timner: "The section work of the band is rich and swinging and the melodic drumming of the often maligned Sonny Greer can be heard clearly and is an integral part of the band's unique sound." / The Uncollected Vol. 3. 460716: "This version ... differs markedly from the Dick Vance "Indiana" chart the band usually played. The arranger for this one is not known, and, apparently, this is the only recording." / Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 460826 / 1946 The Chronological D.E 460826 / The Arrival Of Billy Strayhorn 460826 // Earl Hines & His Orch. 1937-1939 390712, arr. Horace Henderson / Art Tatum 400726 / Thelonious Monk: After Hours At Minton's 4105 / Bud Powell: Writin' for Duke 6302 /
Indigo Echoes (Ellington - Mills) 1935-1936 350305 / It Don't Mean A Thing 350305 /
Informal Blues (Ellington) Duke Ellington 1939 (Smithsonian Collection) 390308 piano solo // Transcription by Jim Aikin in: Contemporary Keyboard. November 1978 (Vol. 4, No. 11), p. 38-40 /
Interview DEMS Azure CA-6 390429 / DEMS Azure CA-4 510123 /
Intimacy Of The Blues, The (Strayhorn) The Intimacy of the Blues 670315 / DEMS Azure CA-29 670315 two takes / „...and his mother called him Bill" 671116 // The Louis Bellson Explosion
Into Each Life Some Jazz Must Fall (Duke's Poetry) (Ellington) New York Concert 640520 /
Introduction-Opening Titles (The Degas Suite; Ellington. Not in MM) The Private Collection vol. 7 681106 and 681123 /
Is God A Three-Letter Word For Love (Ellington) Third Sacred Concert 731024 (parts I & II) / Far Away Star. Alice Babs, Nils Lindgren & his orch. 741125 /
Is That Religion? (M. Pinkard - M. Parish) 1931-1932 310120 / „Earl Jackson & His Musical Champions" 310120 Jazz Classic's (Poland) /
Isfahan (Ellington - Strayhorn) The Private Collection Vol. 4 630718 / The Great London Concerts 640220 / 5 LP set 640311 / All Star Road Band Vol. 2. 640531 / Live at Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 2 640329 / The Far East Suite, Special Mix (2 takes) 661019-21 / Satin Doll 640311, not 691104, as the CD claims // Grover Mitchell & his all-star orch.: Hip Shakin' 900618/19 arr. Bill Ramsay / Isfahan is a city (the ancient one) in Iran and an Iranian mode using scales similar to the melodic minor scale. See DEMS 99-4 p. 11.
Island Virgin (Strayhorn - Ellington) Concert in the Virgin Islands 650414 /
Isle Of Capri (Will Grosz - Jimmy Kennedy) 100 Years Duke. Famous Birthday Sessions 540429 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 540429 /
Isn't Love The Strangest Thing (Coots - Davis) D.E. Presents Ivie Anderson 360127 / 1935-1936 360227 /
It Don't Mean A Thing [If It Ain't Got That Swing] (Ellington - Irving Mills, c. 1932) D.E. Presents Ivie Anderson 320202 / It Don't Mean A Thing. Classic Recordings, Vol. 2: 320202 / 1931-1932 320202 / Masters of Jazz 320202 / Take The A Train. Dreyfus Jazz 431201 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943. Circle 102. 431201 3 takes / Carnegie Hall Concert Dec. 1944. 441219 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 2. 450421 / The Legendary D.E. 450421 / Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 450514 / 1941-1951 450514; prob. also on Mr. Ellington / The Arrival Of Billy Strayhorn 450514 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 4. 450519 / 1946-1947 The Chronological D.E 470510 / Al Hibbler & Orch. with Strays. Al Hibbler 1946-1949 48-49 / DEMS Azure CA-4 490902 / DEMS Azure CA-4 510123 / D.E. 1952 at Carnegie Hall 521114 (medley) / Ellington '55 540617 / arr. Strayhorn: Blue Rose 5601 / DEMS Azure CA-30 590926 / Piano In The Background 6005/06; arr. by Bill Mathieu, whose brilliant arrangements for Kenton ("Standards In Silhouette") attracted notice in 1959. / Louis Armstrong & D.E.: The Great Reunion 610403 / Ella And Duke At The Cote D'Azur 660729 / D.E. & Friends 660726 / Live in Mexico 6809 / Memories of Duke 680923 or 28 / 1969 All-Star Tribute to Duke Ellington 690429 // Part D of „Concerto For Duke", arr. George Williams. Boyd Raeburn: The Transcription Performances 1946 / Roy Eldridge: Little Jazz 500614 / MJQ / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook Vol. 2. 560904 / Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington 5507 / Chico Hamilton with Eric Dolphy: The Original Ellington Suite 580822 / C-Jam All Stars (Gonsalves, Terry a.o.): 581113 / McCoy Tyner plays Ellington 641208 / Paul Gonsalves, Paul, Earl Hines, Ray Nance: It Don't Mean A Thing 701215 / Ran Blake: Duke Dreams 8105/06 / Clark Terry and Red Mitchell: To Duke & Basie 860128 two versions / The Modern Jazz Quartet: For Ellington 880201-03 // (arr. Strayhorn) Strayhorn Manuscript Edition available / Sheet music in: Mills' Evergreen Album 1 / Music in RB p. 241
It Had To Be You (Isham Jones - Gus Kahn) Hodges: Duke's In Bed 560901 // Art Tatum 3908 / Mildred Bailey 44 / Sidney Bechet (w. Kenny Clarke) 491103 /
It Happens To Be Me (Arthur Gent - Sammy Gallop) Ben Webster w. Strings 540528, arr., p Strayhorn (3 takes) / Ballads by Ben Webster 540528 //
It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream (Hodges - Ellington - George) 1946-1947 The Chronological D.E 461218 / Johnny Hodges: The Complete 1941-1954 Small Group Sessions. Vol. I. 4706 /
It's A Lonesome Old Town When You're Nor Around (Harry Tobias - Charles Kisco) arr. D.E.: Recollections Of The Big Band Era 621211 // McKinney's Cotton Pickers 311202 /
It's Bad To Be Forgotten (Ellington) Piano In The Foreground 610301 /
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas () Mercer Ellington: Take The Holiday Train 800728-29 /
It's Freedom (aka Sweet Fat And That; Ellington - Willie Smith) Second Sacred Concert 6801 / D.E.: Live and Rare 680228 // See also Freedom.
It's Glory (Ellington) 1931-1932 310617 / Fargo Encores 401107 / Johnny Hodges: Three Shades Of Blue. 700317 or 19, Earl Hines plays piano // Copyright 1964 D.E. / Eddie Barefield (The World of Count Basie p. 317) says that Johnny Hodges's soloing on "It's a Glory" 310617 made a powerful impression on him /
It's Love I'm In (Hee - Coltrell - Ellington) 1947-1948 The Chronological D.E.471120 /
It's Mad, Mad, Mad! (Higginbotham - Shaw) 1947 The Chronological D.E. 471001 /
It's Monday Everyday (S. Robin) 1946-1947 The Chronological D.E 470901 / Cornell University II 481210 / Al Hibbler with the Gerald Wilson Orchestra: Monday Every Day 610605 /
It's Sad But True (Ellington) Hollywood 1941 410115 /
It's Something That You Ought To Know (Hodges - Mercer Ellington) Paul Gonsalves: Ellingtonia Moods & Blues 600229 /
It's Swell Of You (Mack Gordon - Harry Revel) D.E. Presents Ivie Anderson 370409 /
It Was A Sad Night In Harlem (Al Lewis - Helmy Kresa) D.E. Presents Ivie Anderson 360717 arr. by Helmy Kresa / 1936-1937 The Chronological D.E. 360717 /
Jack The Bear (Ellington) The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 400306 / Ko-Ko 400306 / The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 400306 / At His Very Best 400306 / The Radio Years 1940-1945. 400610 / The British Connexion 400612 / DEMS Azure CA-1 400729 / Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943 & 1945. Circle 103. 431201 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 5 450602 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 4510 / The Bethlehem Years Vol. 1 560207/08 / Stereophonic Sound of Duke Ellington ca. 1960 / The D.E. Orch.: Music Is My Mistress 880722/23 or 880801 (arr. M.E.) // Oscar Pettiford: Basically Duke 541217 / The Modern Jazz Quartet: For Ellington 880201-03 // Strayhorn rework of an abandoned Ellington experiment „Take it away", see Hajdu p. 82 / Jack The Bear, one of "the real old jazz piano players", D.E. cited in Ellington Reader p. 369; "the famous Jack the Bear, whose real name was John Wilson. ... Wilson's most famous rendition was a tune called 'The Dream' [by Jess Pickett] ... it sort of became the Bear's tune by the way he played it. It had a tango bass ...", Willie the Lion Smith p. 55f. - "The bear" was Ben Webster's nickname for Jimmy Blanton. "The piece has the effect of a showcase for Blanton, who is strongly recorded even when not explicitly soloing, but is also a small masterpiece of formal play and sleight-of-hand (it all sounds like the blues) use of motivic cross-reference and scoring across the seams between chorusses." Gushee 1940, cited in Ellington reader p. 426. / Analysis in: Schuller: Swing Era p. 114 ff. / The nickname is no rarity. Louis Armstrong knew one Mary Jack the Bear. Jack "the Bear" Parker played drums with Armstrong, Don Byas, Eddie Heywood, Hot Lips Page, Leo Parker, M. L. Williams, and was the house drummer in the Café Society in N.Y. in the forties. Harry "the Bear" Babasin was the first soloist on cello in Jazz. / For the many meanings of the bear s. Lighter: The Random House Historical Dict. of American Slang II 114. - One of them is a synonym for square (square as a bear). - MLW has another one: "The Bear (as we call wintertime) was in Chicago..." (Gottlieb p.101).
Jail Blues (Ellington) My People 6308/09 /
Jam With Paul (Ellington) April in Paris Feat. Wild Bill Davis 69(1101?) /
Jam With Sam (Ellington) Seattle Concert 520325 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 540429 / D.E. At The Alhambra 581029 / D.E. Live at the Newport Jazz Festival '59 590704 / DEMS Azure CA-30 590926 / Live At Monterey 1960 Part One 600924 / Feat. Paul Gonsalves 620501 / DEMS Azure CA-7 621119 / DEMS Azure CA-11 630202 1st concert / The Great Paris Concert 6302 / At Basin Street East 640114 / Live at Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 2 640329 / En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées (= The Champs-Elysees Theater Jan. 29-30th, 1965) 650129-30 / Soul Call 660727 /
Jam-a-Ditty [A Tonal Group] (Ellington) Carnegie Hall Concerts Jan. 1946 460104 / The Great Chicago Concerts 460120 / 1946-1947 The Chronological D.E 461211 / Masters of Jazz 461218 / Blue Skies 461023 - 461218 / The Uncollected Vol. 4. 470107 // See also A Tonal Group.
Jamaica Tomboy (J. Hamilton) The Duke's D. J. Special 590327 /
Janet (Ellington) Piano Reflections 530414 /
Javapachacha (Apache; adapted by Duke Ellington) Midnight in Paris 620131 / Ellington Fantasies 620131 /
Jaywalker, The (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-5 670323 /
Jazz Cocktail (Carter) 1931-1932 320921 arr. Benny Carter /
Jazz Festival Jazz (ASCAP etc.: Ellington - Strayhorn; Tempo Music copyright: D.E. - Dick Vance; see Hajdu) Newport 1958 580703 /
Jazz Festival Suite (= Red Carpet Suite = Toot Suite) (Ellington - Strayhorn) Jazz At The Plaza Volume II: Duke Ellington & His Orch. 580909 // Not to be confounded with the Newport Jazz Festival Suite.
Jazz Lips aka Zonky Blues aka Fish Mouth (Ellington) Brooks Kerr: Soda Fountain Rag 75. With Sonny Greer // A Blues, and not the same tune as that recorded by Louis Armstrong's Hot Five. /
Jazz Potpourri (Ellington) The British Connexion 380429 / The Smithsonian Collection: Duke Ellington 1938. 381219 / D.E. Vol. 2: Battle of Swing 38 / DEMS Azure CA-4 390315 / The Duke In Boston 390726 /
Jeep Is Jumping, The (Ellington - Hodges) D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 450512 / The Uncollected Vol. 1. 460328 / The Rare Broadcast Recordings 1952 / The Bethlehem Years Vol. 1 560207/08 / Johnny Hodges and the Ellingtonians 610314 / Johnny Hodges: Master of Jazz 610314 / Meets Coleman Hawkins 620818 // MLW Live at the Keystone Corner 770508 / Mary Lou Williams at Rick's Cafe Americain, Chicago 791114 /
Jeep's Blues (Ellington - Hodges) Caravan (Small Groups/Solos 1936-1947) 380328 ld. Johnny Hodges / Johnny Hodges: Hodge Podge 380328 / Rendezvous with Rhythm 380328 / The British Connexion 380429 / DEMS Azure CA-4 390315 / Newport 560707 (also on: Presents the Soloists of his orch.) / Complete At Newport (2 takes) 560707 ff. / DEMS Azure CA-1 5706 / All Star Road Band 570601 / Echoes of an Era (published 1958) / En Concert avec Europe 1: Alhambra 581029 / D.E. At The Alhambra 581029 / 5 LP set 581106 first concert / Such Sweet Thunder (Sampler) 581106 / DEMS Azure CA-30 590926 first concert / Satin Doll 590926 first concert / Stereophonic Sound of Duke Ellington ca. 1960 / Live At Monterey 1960 Part One 600924 / The Private Collection Vol. 4 630417 / DEMS Azure CA-17 630608 / 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 / Duke Ellington Masters (DVD) 650131 / Lawrence Brown: Inspired Abandon 65 / Far Away Star. Alice Babs, D.E. and his orch. 730703 / D.E. In Sweden 1973 feat. Alice Babs 731025 / Mercer Ellington: The D.E. Orch.: Continuum 750106 or 07 /
Jennie (Carney) The Uncollected Vol. 1. 460328 // Jennie is Carney's mother.
Jet Strip (White) The Duke's D. J. Special 590327 /
Jig Walk (Ellington - Jo Trent; c. 1925) Charleston from „Chocolate Kiddies", sheet music in Tucker, Early Years p. 127 ff.
Jingle Bells (Pierpont) Primping For The Prom 620621 (arr. Mercer Ellington?) /
Jingle Bells / Silver Bells Medley () Mercer Ellington: Take The Holiday Train 800728-29 /
Jitterbug's Lullaby (Hodges - Ellington - Mills) Rendezvous with Rhythm 380801 /
Jive Jam (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-2 660729 /
Jive Stomp (Ellington) April in Paris Feat. Wild Bill Davis 69(1101?) /
Jo (Strayhorn) Strayhorn. The Dutch Jazz Orch.: So This Is Love 971013-17 or 991028 //
John Hardy's Wife (Mercer Ellington) Hollywood 1941 410115 / The Duke And His Men 410215 /
Johnny Come Lately (Strayhorn) 1942-1944 The Chronological D.E. 420626 / 1941-1951 420626 / Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 1. 4306 / D.E. & His Orchestra - 1943. Circle 102. 431201 2 takes / Indiana Live Session 4506 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 6. 450616 / D.E. and the Ellingtonians 5011 / Archive of Jazz Vol. 31 (Trio) 5011 / The Rare Broadcast Recordings 1952 / 100 Years Duke. Famous Birthday Sessions 540429 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 540429 / Johnny Hodges and the Ellington Men: The Big Band Sound Of Johnny Hodges 570626 // Gillespie: A Portrait of D.E. 600427/28 arr. Clare Fischer / Jimmy Smith: Got My Mojo Workin' /
Johnny Hodges Medley Carnegie Hall Concert 471227 /
Jones (Terry - Ellington) D.E.'s Spacemen: The Cosmic Scene (2 Takes) 580402/03 / Jazz At The Plaza Volume II: Duke Ellington & His Orch. 580909 / DEMS Azure CA-2 581105 / D.E. Live at the Newport Jazz Festival '59 590704 / Live At Monterey 1960 Part One 600924 / Live at Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 2 640329 /
Joog, Joog (Ellington) 1949-1950 The Chronological D.E. 491222 /
Jubilee Stomp (Ellington) Cotton Club Days 280119 / Bugle Call Rag 28 /
Jubilesta (Tizol) 370920 (same session as Dim./Cresc. In Blue), Cootie Williams dto. 371026. "Jubilesta" is apparently a contraction of "Jubilee" and "Fiesta". It was copyrighted in 1938, composers Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol, author Irving Mills. / Charlie Barnet recorded it in 1937 as "Emperor Jones". - Schuller, Swing Era 716n: "Jubilesta was one of those "rhythmically torrid" pseudo-junglistic pieces that had a great vogue in the thirties." Schuller's opinion that Ellington recorded "Moonlight Fiesta" again as "Jubilesta" is wrong. "Jubilesta" is a different composition.
Juke Bop Boogie (Kemp - Ellington) 1949-1950 The Chronological D.E. 500921 /
July 18th Blues (Ellington) The Private Collection Vol. 4 630718 /
Jump For Joy (Ellington - Sid Kuller - Paul Webster) 1941-1951 410702 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 450505 / Indiana Live Session 4506 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 6. 450623 Willie Timner: "The rhythm group and the section work are outstanding." / The Uncollected Vol. 5. 470610 / The Private Collection Vol. 1 5702 / DEMS CA-5 5702 / The Feeling of Jazz 620703 / Jump For Joy 620703 / New Mood Indigo 620703 / 5 LP set dto. / En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées (= The Champs-Elysees Theater Jan. 29-30th, 1965) 650129-30 / DEMS Azure CA-2 650130 (1st concert) / 1969 All-Star Tribute to Duke Ellington 690429 / Mercer Ellington: The D.E. Orch.: Continuum 750106 or 07 // Far Away Star. Alice Babs, Nils Lindgren & his orch. 741125 /
Jump, That's All (Shorty Baker) Johnny Hodges: The Vogue Recordings 500415 /
Jumpin' At The Woodside (Count Basie) Battle Royal 610707 / First Time! Duke 100 Years (2 takes) 610707 // Count Basie 380822 on: The Lester Young Story / Perez Prado: Voodoo Suite & Exotic Suite of the Americas 550215 / Count Basie: The Best of Basie 60 / Ted Heath: Swing Is King. P. 1969 / Count Basie: Farmers Market Place 820504 /
Jumpin' Punkins (Mercer Ellington) The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 410215 / Hollywood 1941 410917 / Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 / Indiana Live Session 4506 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 6. 450616 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 4510 / The Great Chicago Concerts 461110 / The Uncollected Vol. 5. 470609 // The title derived from Ben Webster's jocular reference to his having known Mercer since he was a kid (Stanley Dance: Notes. The Great Chicago Concerts).
Jumpin' Room Only (Ellington) 1945 Vol. 2 The Chronological D.E. 450516 /
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid (Young) D.E. and the Ellingtonians 510619 /
June's Jumpin' (J. Hodges) Johnny Hodges: The Complete 1941-1954 Small Group Sessions. Vol. I. 4706 /
Jungle Kitty (Strayhorn - Ellington) Concert in the Virgin Islands 650414 /
Jungle Nights In Harlem (Ellington - Mills, c. 1934) D.E. a. his Cotton Club Orch. 300604 (developped from Diga Diga Doo) / At The Cotton Club 300604 /
Jungle Triangle (Ellington) 5 LP set 630820 / DEMS Azure CA-5 6308 // written for an exciting dance act in „My People"
Juniflip (Ellington) The Private Collection Vol. 10 580305 / Newport 1958 580703 / D.E. At The Alhambra 581029 // "According to Clark Terry ... the Maestro wrote only one piece dedicated exclusively to him, and that was the bouncy Juniflip, tailored to Terry's newfound instrument, the flugelhorn, which he had begun to play in the band in 1957. Back in the day, recalls Terry, 'when a guy was doing something extraordinary, you'd say, that cat is doing juniflips. Where it came from is a mystery to me. The first time I heard it was in a sexual connotation.' "
Junior Hop (Ellington) The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 401102 / I'm Beginning To See The Light 401102 // Transcription of the full score in Rattenbury: D.E. Jazz Composer /
Just A Little Jive aka Blues With A Bridge aka Burg (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-30 681123 takes 16 & 17 /
Just A Memory (Ray Henderson - Buddy DeSylva - Lew Brown) Side By Side 580814 /
Just A-Settin' And A-Rockin' (Ellington - Strayhorn - Lee Gaines) In A Mellotone 410605 / Take The A Train. Dreyfus Jazz 410605 / The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 410605 / DEMS Azure CA-4 420722 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 3. 4511 / Carnegie Hall Concert Vol. 1. 481113 / Presents the Soloists of his orch. 531215 / arr. Strayhorn: Blue Rose 5601 / The Private Collection Vol. 9 580304 / 16 Top Tracks 580304 / Billy Strayhorn: The Peaceful Side 6001 / Paul Gonsalves 620501 / En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées (= The Champs-Elysees Theater Jan. 29-30th, 1965) 650129-30 / The Intimacy of the Blues 700615 / Gonsalves on: Three Tenors 700828 // Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook Vol. 2. 560904 / Chico Hamilton with Eric Dolphy: The Original Ellington Suite 580822 / Oscar Pettiford & Lee Gaines 600829 /
Just Scratchin' The Surface (Ellington) The Private Collection Vol. 1 560103 (or 560317) / Newport 1958 580703 /
Just Squeeze Me (but don't tease me) (Ellington - Lee Gaines) Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 460709 / Take The A Train. Dreyfus Jazz 460709 / The Minor Goes Muggin' 460709 / 1945-1946 The Chronological D.E. 460709 / The Uncollected Vol. 2. 460711 / D.E. At Birdland - 1952 521124 / Happy Birthday, Duke! 530430 / Hodges: Duke's In Bed 560901 / DEMS Azure CA-30 590926 / Johnny Hodges and the Ellingtonians 610314 / Louis Armstrong & D.E.: The Great Reunion 610403 / En Concert avec Europe 1: Théatre des Champs Élisées (= The Champs-Elysees Theater Jan. 29-30th, 1965) 650129-30 / Ella And Duke At The Cote D'Azur 660729 / The Private Collection vol. 6 681123 / 1969 All-Star Tribute to Duke Ellington 690429 // The Chronological Rex Stewart 1946-1947 471208 / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the D.E. Songbook Vol. 2. 560904 / Oscar Pettiford & Lee Gaines 600830 / Joya Sherrill sings Duke 650112 / Clark Terry Big Band Warsaw 780904 (Poljazz) // "had a successful five years as the instrumental 'Subtle Slough'."
Just You, Just Me (Greer - Klages) The Uncollected Vol. 3. 460717; also on Mr. Ellington / Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings) 460826 / 1946 The Chronological D.E 460826 / The Arrival Of Billy Strayhorn 460826 // Lester Young Quartet 431228 on: The Lester Young Story / Benny Carter & his. orch. (radio transcriptions 1945-1948) / Rudi Sehring Trio m. Attila Zoller 550728 / Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson 550731 /
Kamman's A'Comin' (O. Pettiford) Lucky Thompson: Accent On Tenor Sax 54, w. J. Hamilton, O. Pettiford /
Kansas City Caboose (?) Sonny Greer & His Rextet 440516 (two takes), arr. Brick Fleagle, on: Earl Hines and the Duke's Men
Keep A Song In Your Soul (Waller - Hill) 1931-1932 310116 / D.E. & his orch. 310116, on: Alex Hill 2; maybe Alex Hill, arr. // (arr. Benny Carter:) Fletcher Henderson a. h. orch. 1927-1931 301202 / Red Nichols and his Five Pennies 310219 , on: Alex Hill 2 // Cf. Schuller, Early Jazz p. 273f., 305: „Benny Carter was now the arranger everyone followed." - „Apart from the singular honour of writing for the latter [the D.E. Orch.], Alex Hill received the accolade in being asked to deputize for a briefly indisposed Ellington." (Sally-Ann Worsfold, liner notes of „Alex Hill"). This and other titles by Hill, who became staff arranger for Mills Music in 1934, are material for a comparison of arranging styles: Ellington's arr. of Let's Have A Jubilee! - Hill wrote more popular gospel-based songs: On Revival Day. Shout, Sister, Shout.
Kentucky Avenue, A.C. (Ellington) The Intimacy of the Blues 670315 / DEMS Azure CA-29 670315 two takes /
Kickapoo Joy Juice (Ellington) Carnegie Hall Concert 471227 /
Killian's Lick (Ellington) The Private Collection Vol. 4 630417 // „in fond memory of high note trumpet man Al Killian, who had replaced Cat Anderson in 1947 and met a tragic death in 1950." (Liner notes) / Killian's style can be heard in a jam session on Black California Vol 2. 470706. By the end of that year he joined Ellington. As Sonny Criss put it: "Killian was interested in the modern sounds even though he was not capable of playing in that vein." In fact west coast trumpeters have their own sound, from Killian and Clora Bryant to Bobby Bryant. High-note Freddie Websters.
Killing Myself (Ellington) D.E. Presents Ivie Anderson 391016 /
Kinda Dukish (Ellington) Piano Reflections 531203 / In the Uncommon Market; probably 63 Jan/Feb / DEMS Azure CA-14 630608 // Candido 570225 arr. Ernie Wilkins /
Kinda Dukish / Rockin' In Rhythm (Ellington / Ellington - Carney - Mills) En Concert avec Europe 1: Alhambra 581029 / D.E. Live. Paris 590920 / 5 LP set 590926 / Such Sweet Thunder (Sampler) 590926 / Piano In The Background 6005/06 / DEMS Azure CA-11 630202 1st concert / The Great Paris Concert 6302 / At Basin Street East 640114 / The Great London Concerts 640220 / Live at Carnegie Hall 1964 - Vol. 2 640329 / Duke Ellington Masters (DVD) 650131 / Soul Call 660727 / DEMS Azure CA-25 690403 / DEMS Azure CA-20 720623 /
King Fit The Battle Of Alabam' (From My People) (Ellington) My People 6308/09 / DEMS Azure CA-15 630821 3 takes // Alabama and the civil rights, a permanent provocation; cf. Mingus: Fables of Faubus; Nina Simone: Alabama Goddamn. In 1963, at the height of the campaign for civil rights in the South, the Klan killed children in a Bible class by bombs. It was Sunday, 15 September. Cf. John Coltrane's piece "Alabama", composed shortly after this.
Kissin' My Baby Goodnight (Mack David - Joe Meyer - Pete Wendling) D.E. Presents Ivie Anderson 360228 / 1936-1937 The Chronological D.E. 360228 /
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Kitty (Brier - Weinstein) 1947 The Chronological D.E. 471002 /
Kixx see The Biggest and Busiest Intersection
Klop (The Uwis Suite 2) (Ellington) DEMS Azure CA-6 720721 / The Ellington Suites 721005 / (Polka)
Knock Me A Kiss (?) DEMS Azure CA-18 490216 /
Knuf (Ellington) The Private Collection vol. 6 681123 // funk read backwards
Ko-Ko (Ellington) The Indispensable D.E. Vol. 5/6 400306 takes 1 and 2 / Ko-Ko 400306 / Masters of Jazz 400306 / The Jimmy Blanton Era 1939-1941 400306 / At His Very Best 400306 / The Radio Years 1940-1945. 400610 / The British Connexion 400612 / DEMS Azure CA-1 400729 / Fargo 401107 / Carnegie Hall Concert 430123 / D.E.T.S. Vol. 6. 450623 Willie Timner: "The first recording remains the definitive one." / Historically Speaking 560207/08 (= The Bethlehem Years Vol. 1; liner notes by Gary Giddins), also on: Presents the Soloists of his orch. / Mercer Ellington: The D.E. Orch.: Continuum 750106 or 07; a new arrangement. // Tom Talbert: Bix Duke Fats 56 (fall); features Oscar Pettiford / The Modern Jazz Quartet: For Ellington 880201-03 / Tom Talbert: Duke' Domain 9206 // D.E.'s spoken introduction at Carnegie Hall, Jan. 1943: "Ko-Ko is a little descriptive scene of the phase that inspired jazz. I think it was in New Orleans, and the place called Congo Square, where the slaves used to gather and do native and sensuous dances, religious dances, and Ko-Ko is a little descriptive scene." // Version for piano in: Duke Ellington at the Piano (1943) / Transcription of the full score in Rattenbury: D.E. Jazz Composer / Transcriptions of small portions by David Berger in Kernfeld: What to listen for in Jazz. / Complete transciption by David Berger in The Norton Scores Vol. II. In fact, this is in part transcription, and in part reconstruction from the parts in the Smithsonian. This is a dilemma. / Criticism see D.E. Reader (with the well-known invectives by Hodeir) / Mellers: Music in a New Found Land p. 325: "... owes its almost unique position in Ellington's work to the fact that it is a ferocious rhythm-piece in which there is no ironic deflation ... This is a tragic piece ..." / Originally titled Kalina. A photocopy of RCA's recording schedule in B. Aasland's "Wax Works" of D.E. shows that Kalina in typescript was altered to Ko Ko in longhand. /
Krum Elbow Blues (Ellington - Hodges) Johnny Hodges: Hodge Podge 380824 /
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