Monday, 28 September 2015

Coming soon...





The sequel to Columbia Studio Albums 1950-58 has a street date of 30 October, 2015.

The good news: first time releases in the US on CD of Unknown Session (something of an anachronism here since the album was not released in Ellington's lifetime)and The Girls' Suite.

Not so good: why finish in 1961 and not 1962 which is when Ellington's contract expired. Two of his original studio albums, Midnight in Paris and All American In Jazz (which could have fit easily on one CD) remain unreleased on CD in the USA - and indeed, unreleased since their original LP incarnations over fifty years ago, virtually.

Here is a listing of the contents of the 10 disc box:

Disc: 1

  1. Malletoba Spank - Duke Ellington feat. The Percussion Section
  2. Medley: Toot Suite - Duke Ellington feat. Britt Woodman, Jimmy Hamilton, Shorty Baker, Russell Procope, Quentin Jackson, and Paul Gonsalves
  3. Satin Doll
  4. U.M.M.G. - Duke Ellington feat. Dizzy Gillespie
  5. All of Me - Duke Ellington feat. Johnny Hodges
  6. Tymperturbably Blue - Duke Ellington feat. The Percussion Section
  7. Fillie Trillie
  8. Hello Little Girl - Duke Ellington feat. Jimmy Jones, Jimmy Rushing, Dizzy Gillespie

Disc: 2

  1. Main Title and Anatomy of a Murder
  2. Flirtibird
  3. Way Early Subtone
  4. Hero to Zero
  5. Low Key Lightly
  6. Happy Anatomy
  7. Midnight Indigo
  8. Almost Cried
  9. Sunswept Sunday
  10. Grace Valse
  11. Happy Anatomy
  12. Haupe
  13. Upper and Outest
  14. Anatomy of a Murder
  15. Merrily Rolling Along
  16. Beer Garden
  17. Happy Anatomy
  18. Polly
  19. Polly
  20. Happy Anatomy
  21. More Blues
  22. Almost Cried
  23. Sound Track Music: Anatomy of a Murder
  24. Anatomy of a Murder
  25. The Grand Finale

Disc: 3

  1. Perdido
  2. Copout Extension
  3. Duael Fuel, Pt. I
  4. Duael Fuel, Pt. II
  5. Duael Fuel, Pt. III
  6. Idiom '59, Pt. I
  7. Idiom '59, Pt. II
  8. Idiom '59, Pt. III
  9. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
  10. Launching Pad
  11. V.I.P.'s Boogie
  12. Jam with Sam

Disc: 4

  1. Three J's Blues
  2. Smada
  3. Pie Eye's Blues
  4. Sweet & Pungent
  5. C Jam Blues
  6. In a Mellow Tone
  7. Blues In Blueprint
  8. The Swingers Get the Blues, Too
  9. The Swinger's Jump
  10. Blues In Orbit
  11. Villes Ville Is the Place, Man
  12. Track 360
  13. Sentimental Lady
  14. Brown Penny
  15. Pie Eye's Blues
  16. Sweet & Pungent
  17. The Swinger's Jump
  18. Blues In Orbit
  19. Track 360

Disc: 5

  1. Overture
  2. Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance of the Reed-Pipes)
  3. Peanut Brittle Brigade (March)
  4. Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy)
  5. Entr'acte
  6. The Volga Vouty (Russian Dance)
  7. Chinoiserie (Chinese Dance)
  8. Dance of the Floreadores (Waltz of the Flowers)
  9. Arabesque Cookie (Arabian Dance)
  10. Girls
  11. Mahalia
  12. Peg O' My Heart
  13. Sweet Adeline
  14. Juanita
  15. Sylvia
  16. Lena
  17. Dinah
  18. Clementine
  19. Diane

Disc: 6

  1. Happy Go Lucky Local
  2. What Am I Here For
  3. Kinda Dukish / Rockin' In Rhythm
  4. Perdido
  5. I'm Beginning to See the Light
  6. Mid-Riff
  7. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  8. Main Stem
  9. Take the "A" Train
  10. Lullaby of Birdland
  11. The Wailer
  12. Dreamy Sort of Thing
  13. Lullaby of Birdland
  14. Harlem Air Shaft

Disc: 7

  1. Morning Mood
  2. In the Hall of the Mountain King 
  3. Solvejg's Song 
  4. Ase's Death
  5. Anitra's Dance 
  6. Misfit Blues 
  7. Schwiphti 
  8. Zweet Zurzday 
  9. Lay-By 

Disc: 8

  1. Everything but You
  2. Black Beauty
  3. All Too Soon
  4. Something to Live For
  5. Mood Indigo
  6. Creole Blues
  7. Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know)
  8. A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing
  9. Mighty Like the Blues
  10. Tonight I Shall Sleep
  11. Dual Highway
  12. Blues

Disc: 9

  1. I Can't Get Started
  2. Cong-Go
  3. Body and Soul
  4. Blues for Jerry
  5. Fontainebleau Forest
  6. Summertime
  7. It's Bad to Be Forgotten
  8. A Hundred Dreams Ago
  9. So
  10. Searching (Pleading for Love)
  11. Springtime In Africa
  12. Lotus Blossom
  13. All The Things You Are
  14. All The Things You Are
  15. Piano Improvisation No. 2
  16. Piano Improvisation No. 3
  17. Piano Improvisation No. 4
  18. Piano Improvisation No. 1

Disc: 10

  1. Battle Royal 
  2. To You 
  3. Take the 'A' Train 
  4. Corner Pocket (aka Until I Met You) 
  5. Wild Man 
  6. Segue In C
  7. B D B 
  8. Jumpin' at the Woodside 
  9. One More Once 
  10. Take the 'A' Train
  11. Jumpin' at the Woodside 
  12. B D B
  13. Blues In Hoss' Flat 
  14. Wild Man
  15. Battle Royal