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