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THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1924 - 1927
(CD CLASSICS / 539) France

November, 1924 to April 30 1927



Choo choo (Gotta hurry home) / Rainy nights / I'm gonna hang around my sugar / Trombone blues / Georgia grind / Parlor social stomp / (You've got those) Wanna-go-back-again blues / If you can't hold the man you love / Animal crackers / Lil' Farina / East St. Louis toodle-Oo / Birmingham breakdown / Immigration blues / The creeper / New Orleans low-down / Song of the cotton field / Birmingham breakdown / East St. Louis toodle-Oo (2 versions) / Hop head / Down in our alley blues / Black and tan fantasy / Soliloquy.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1927 - 1928
(CD CLASSICS / 542) France

Octobre 6, 1927 to March 21, 1928



Washington wooble / Creole love call / The blues I love to sing / Black and tan fantasy / Washington wooble / What can a poor fellow do ? / Black and tan fantasy / Chicago stomp down / Harlem river quiver / East St. Louis todle-Oo / Blue bubbles / Red hot band / Doin' the frog / Sweet mama (Papa's gettin' mad) / Stack O'Lee blues / Bugle call rag / Take it easy / Jubilee stomp / Harlem twist / East St. Louis todle-Oo / Jubilee stomp / Take it easy (2 takes) / Jubilee stomp.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1928
(CD CLASSICS / 550) France

March 21 to 30 October 30, 1928



Black beauty (2 takes) / Jubilee stomp / Got everything but you / Yellow dog blues / Tishomingo blues / Diga diga doo / Doin' the new low-down / Black beauty / Swampy river / The mooche / Move over / Hot and bothered / The mooche / Hot and bothered / Move over / The mooche / Louisiana / Awful sad / The mooche / Santa Claus bring my man back / I done caught you blues / I can't give you anything but love / No, Papa, no.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1928 - 1929
(CD CLASSICS / 559) France

Octobre 30, 1928 March 1st, 1929



No, Papa, no / Bandanna babies / Diga diga doo / I must have that man / The blues with a feelin' / Goin' to town / Misty mornin' / Hit me in the nose blues / It's all comin' home to you / St. Louis blues / Hottentot / Misty mornin' / Doin' the voom voom / Tiger rag (parts 1 & 2) / Flaming youth / Saturday night function / High life / Doin' the voom voom / Japanese dream / Harlemania / Rent party blues.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1929
(CD CLASSICS / 569) France

March 1st to July 29, 1929



Paducah / Harlem flat blues / The dicty glide / Hot feet / Sloppy Joe / Stevedore stomp / Saragota swing / Who said "it's tight like that" ? / He just don't appeal to me / I must have that man / Freeze and melt / Mississippi moan / A nite at the Cotton Club (parts 1 & 2) / Cotton club stomp / Misty mornin' / Arabian lover / Saragota swing / That rhythm man / Beggars blues / Saturday night function / Black and blue / Jungle jamboree.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1929 - 1930
(CD CLASSICS / 577) France

August 2, 1929 au to January 29, 1930



Jungle jamboree / Snake hip dance / Doin' the voom voom / Flaming youth / Saturday night function / Jolly wog / Jazz convulsions / Mississippi / The Duke steps out / Haunted nights / Swanee shuffles / Six or seven times / Goin' nuts / Oklahoma stomp / Breakfast dance / Jazz lips / March of the hoodlums / Lazy Duke / Blues of the vagabond / Syncopated shuffle / Sweet mama / Wall Street wail / Cincinnati daddy / St. James Infirmary.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1930
(CD CLASSICS / 586) France

January 29 to June 2, 1930



When you're smiling (The whole world smiles with you) / Rent party blues / Jungle blues / Sing, you sinners / St. James Infirmary / When you're smiling / Maori (A samoan dance) / Admiration / The mooche / Ragamuffin Roméo / East St. Louis toodle-Oo / Double check stomp / My gal is good for nothing but love / I was made to love you / Double check stomp / Accordion Joe / Cotton Club stomp / Sweet dreams of love / Jungle nights in Harlem / Sweet jazz o'mine / Shout 'em, Aunt Tillie / Sweet mama / Hot and bothered.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1930 volume 2
(CD CLASSICS / 596) France

June 2 to November 8, 1930



Double check stomp / Black and tan fantasy / Ring dem bells / Old man blues / Ring dem bells / Old man blues / Three little words / Hittin' the bottle / That lindy hop / You're lucky to me / Memories of you / Big house blues / Rocky mountain blues / Running' wild / Dreamy blues / Home again blues / Wang-wang blues / Ring dem bells / Three little words / Old man blues / Sweet chariot / Mood indigo / I can't realise you love me.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1930 - 1931
(CD CLASSICS / 605) France

November, 1930 to January 20, 1931



I'm so in love with you / Rockin' in rhythm / Nine little miles fron Ten-Ten-Tennessee / I'm so in love with you / What good am I without you ? / Blue again / When a black man's blue / What good am I without you ? / When a black man's blue / Mood indigo / Them there eyes / Rockin' chair / I'm so in love with you / Rockin' chair / Rockin' in rhythm / Twelfth street rag / Rockin' in rhythm / The river and me / Keep a song in your soul / Sam and Delilah / The peanut vendor / Creole rhapsody (parts 1 & 2).

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1931 - 1932
(CD CLASSICS / 616) France

January 20, 1931 to February 11, 1932



Is that religion ? / Creole rhapsody (parts 1 & 2) / Limehouse blues / Echoes of the jungle / It's glory / The mystery song / Moon over Dixie / It don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) / Lazy rhapsody / Mood indigo - Hot and bothered - Creole love call / Blue tune / East St. Louis toodle-Oo - Lot's o'fingers - Black and tan fantasy / Dinah / Bugle call rag / St. Louis blues / Creole love call / Rose room.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1932 - 1933
(CD CLASSICS / 626) France

May 16, 1932 to January 7, 1933



Blue harlem / The sheik of Araby / Swampy river / Fast and furious / Best wishes / Slippery horn / Blue ramble / Clouds in my heart / Blue mood / Ducky wucky / Jazz cocktail / Lightnin' / Maori / Stars / Swing low / Baby ! / Any time, any day, anywhere / Delta bound / Diga diga doo / I can't give you anything but love / Porgy / I must have that man / Baby !

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1933
(CD CLASSICS / 637) France

January 7 to August 15, 1933



Eerie moan / Merry-go-round / Sophisticated lady / I've got the world on a string / Down a Carolina lane / Slippery horn / Blackbird medley part. 1 : Intro - I can't give you anything but love - Doin' the new low-down - I must have that man - Baby ! / Blackbird medley part. 2 : Intro - Dixie - Diga diga doo - Porgy - I can't give you anything but love / Drop me off at Harlem / Happy as the day is long / Raisin'the rent / Get yourself a new broom (And sweep the blues away) / Bundle of blues / Sophisticated lady / Stormy weather (Keeps rainin' all the time) / Hyde park / Harlem speak / Ain't misbehavin' / Chicago / A souvenir of Duke Ellington / I'm satisfied / Jive stomp.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1933 - 1935
(CD CLASSICS / 646) France

August 15, 1933 to January 9, 1935



Harlem speaks / In the shade of the old apple tree / Rude interlude / Dallas doings / Dear old Southland / Daybreak express / Delta serenade / Stompy Jones / Solitude / Blue feeling / Ebony rhapsody / Cocktails for two / Live and love tonight / I met my Waterloo / My old flame / Troubled waters / My old flame / Solitude / Saddest tale / Moon glow / Sump'n' 'bout rhythm / Admiration / Farewell blues.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1935 - 1936
(CD CLASSICS / 659) France

January 9, 1935 au February 27, 1936



Let's have a jubilee / Porto rican chaos / Margie / Moonlight fiesta (Porto rican chaos) / Tough truckin' / Indigo echoes / In a sentimental mood / Showboat shuffle / Merry-go-round / Admiration / Cotton / Truckin' / Accent on youth / Reminiscing in tempo (parts 1 à 4) / I don't know why I love you so / Dinah Lou / Isn't love the strangest thing / (There is) No greater love / Clarinet lament (Barney's concerto) / Echoes of Harlem (Cootie's concerto).

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1936 - 1937
(CD CLASSICS / 666) France

February 28, 1936 to March 5, 1937



Love is like a cigarette / Kissin' my baby good-night / Oh babe ! maybe someday / Shoe shine boy / It was a sad night in Harlem / Trumpet in spades (Rex's concerto) / Yearning for love (Lawrence's concerto) / In a jam / Exposition swing / Uptown downtown (Black out) / Rexatious / Lazy man's shuffle / Clouds in my heart / Frolic Sam / Caravan / Stompy Jones / Scattin' at the Cotton Club / Black butterfly / Mood indigo and Solitude / Sophisticated lady and In a sentimental mood / The new birmingham breakdown / Scatin' at the Kit Kat / I've got to be a rug cutter / The new East St. Louis toodle-Oo.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1937
(CD CLASSICS / 675) France

March 8 to May 20, 1937



I can't believe that you're in love with me / Downtown uproar / Digga digga doo / Blue reverie / Whispering tiger (Tiger rag) / My honey's lovin' arms / Did anyone home / Where are you ? / There's a lull in my life / It's swell of you / You can't run away from love tonight / Azure / The lady who couldn't be kissed / The old plantation / Solace (Lament for a lost love) / Four and one-half street / Demi-tasse (Each day) / Jazz a la carte / Caravan / Azure / Foolin' myself / A sailboat in the moonlight.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1937 volume 2
(CD CLASSICS / 687) France

May 20 to October 26, 1937



You'll never go to heaven (If you break my heart) / Peckin' / All god's chillun got rhythm (2 takes) / Alabamy home / Get it southern style / Moonlight fiesta / Sponge cake and spanich / If you're ever in my arms again / The back room romp (A contrapuntal stomp) / Swing baby swing (Love in my heart) / Sugar hill shim sham / Tea and trumpets / Chatter-box / Jubilesta / Diminuendo in blue / Crescendo in blue / Harmony in Harlem / Dusk in the desert / Jubilesta / Watching / Pigeons and peppers / I can't give you anything but love.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1938
(CD CLASSICS / 700) France

January 13 to April 4, 1938



Stepping into swing society / Prologue to black and tan fantasy / The new black and tan fantasy / Drummer's delight / If I though you cared / Have a heart (Lost in meditation) / My day / Silvery moon and golden sands / Echoes of Harlem / Riding a blue note / Lost in meditation / The gal from Joe's / If you were in my place (What would you do ?) / Scrounch / I let a song go out of my heart / Braggin' in brass / Carnival in Caroline / Jeeps blues / If you were in my place (What would you do ?) / I let a song go out of my heart / Rendez-vous with rhythm / A lesson in C / Swingtime in Honolulu.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1938 volume 2
(CD CLASSICS / 717) France

April 4 to August 2, 1938



Carnival in Caroline / Ol' man river / Swingtime in Honolulu / I'm slappin' seventh avenue (With the sole of my shoe) / Dinah's in jam / You gave me the gate (And I'm swingin') / Rose of the rio Grande / Pyramid / When my sugar walks down the street (All the little birdies go tweet-tweet-tweet) / Watermelon man / A gypsy without a song / The stevedore's serenade / La de doody doo / You walked out of the picture / Pyramid / Empty ballroom blues / Lost in meditation / A blues serenade / Love in swingtime / Swingin' in the dell / Jitterbug's lullaby / Chasin' chippies / Blues is the evening.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1938 volume 3
(CD CLASSICS / 726) France

August 2 to december 19, 1938



Sharpie / Swing pan alley / A blue serenade / Love in swingtime / Please forgive me / Lambeth walk / Prelude to a kiss / Hip chic / Buffet flat / Prelude to a kiss / There's something about an old love / the jeep is jumpin' / Krum elbow blues / Twits and twerps / Mighty like the blues / Jazz potpourri / T.T. on toast / Battle of swing / I'm in another world / Hodge podge / Dancing on the stars / Wanderlust.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1938 - 1939
(CD CLASSICS / 747) France

December 21, 1938 to March 20, 1939



Delta mood / The boys from Harlem / Mobile blues / Gal-avantin ' / Blue light (Transblucency) / Old King Dooji / Boys meets horn / Slap happy / Like a ship in the night / Mississippi dream boat / Swingin' on the campus / Dooji wooji / Beautiful romance / Boudoir Benny / Ain't the gravy good / She's gone / Just good fun / Informal blues / San Juan hill / I'll come back for more / ''Fat stuff'' serenade / Pussy willow / Subtle lament.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1939
(CD CLASSICS / 765) France

March 20 to June 8, 1939



Lady in blue / Smorgasbord and schnapps / Savoy strut / Rent party blues / Dance of the goon / Good gal blues / Finesse (Night wind) / Portrait of the Lion / (I want) Something to live for / Solid old man / Kitchen mechanic's day / My heart jumped over the moon / You can count on me / Home town blues / Cotton club stomp / Doin' the voom voom / Way low / Serenade to Sweden / Utt-da-zay (The taylor song) / Chew chew chew (Chew your bubble gum) / Barney goin' easy / Just another dream.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1939 volume 2
(CD CLASSICS / 780) France

June 12 to October 14, 1939



In a mizz / I'm checkin' out, goo'm bye / A lonely co-ed / You can count on me / Night song / Blues a-boppin' / Top and bottom / Black beauty / Bouncing buoyancy / The sergeant was shy / Grievin' / The rabbit's jump / Moon romance / Truly wonderful / Dream blues / Little Posey / I never felt this way before / Grievin' / Tootin' through the roof / Weely (A portrait of Billy Strayhorn) / Skunk hollow blues / I know what you do / Your love has faded / Tired socks.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1939 - 1940
(CD CLASSICS / 790) France

October 14, 1939 to February 15, 1940



Blues / Early mornin' / Killin' myself / Your love has faded / Country gal / Minuet in blues / Lost in two flats / Honey hush / Blues / Plucked again / Solitude / Stormy weather / Mood indigo / Sophisticated lady / Pelican drag / Tapioca / Mardi gras madness / Watch the birdie / Black butterfly / Dry long so / Toasted pickle / Give it up.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1940
(CD CLASSICS / 805) France

March 6 to July 24 1940



You, you darlin' / Jack the bear / Ko-ko / Morning glory / Do far, so good / Congo brava / Concerto for Cootie / Me and you / Bojangles / Cotton tail / Never no lament / Blue goose / Dusk / Bojangles / A portrait of Bert Williams / Blue goose / Harlem air-shaft / At a dixie roadside diner / All to soon / Rumpus in Richmond / My greatest mistake / Sepia panorama.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1940 volume 2
(CD CLASSICS / 820) France

September 5 to November 2, 1940



There shall be no night / In a mellotone / Five o'clock whistle / Warm valley / Pitter panther patter / Body and soul / Sophisticated lady / Mr. J. B. blues / The flaming sword / Warm valley / Across the tracks blues / Chloe (Song of the swamp) / I never felt this way before / Day dream / Good queen Bess / That's the blues, old man / Junior hop / Without a song / My sunday gal / Mobile bay / Linger awhile.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1940 - 1941
(CD CLASSICS / 837) France

November 11, 1940 to July 2, 1941



Charlie the chulo / Lament for javanette / A lull at dawn / Ready Eddy / Sidewalks of New York / Flamingo / The girl in my dreams tries to look like you / Take the A train / Jumpin' punkins / John Hardy's wife / Blue Serge / After all / Dear old Southland / Solitude / Bakiff / Are you sticking ? / Just a-settin' and a-rockin' / The giddybug gallop / Chocolate shake / I got it bad and that ain't good / Clementine / The brown skin gal (In the caligo gown) / Jump for joy.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1941
(CD CLASSICS / 851) France

July 2 to December 2, 1941



Jump for joy / Moon over Cuba / Some saturday / Subtle slough / Menelik - the lion of Judah / Poor Bubber / Squaty roo / Passion flower / Thing's ain't what they used to be / Goin ' out the back way / Five o'clock drag / Rocks in my bed / Bli-blip / Chelsea bridge / Brown Suede / Noir bleu / "C" blues / June / Raincheck / What good would it do ? / I don't know what kind of blues I got / Chelsea bridge.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1942 - 1944
(CD CLASSICS / 867) France

January 21, 1942 to May 26, 1944
2 last tunes : November 24, 1939




Perdido / The C jam blues / Moon list / What am I here for ? / I don't mind / Someone / My little brown book / Main stem / Johnny come lately / Hayfoot, strawfoot / Sentimental lady / A slip of the lip (Can sink a ship) / Sherman shuffle / Boy meets horn / Hop skip jump / Things ain't what they used to be / Main stem / Creole love call / The mood to bo wooed / My little brown book / I'm checkin' out goom-bye / Tootin' through the roof.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1944 - 1945
(CD CLASSICS / 881) France

December 1st, 1944 au to April 7, 1945



I ain't got nothin' but the blues / I'm beginning to see the light / Don't you know I care / I didn't know about you / Black, Brown and Beige : Work song - Come sunday - The blues - Three dances / Carnegie blues / Blue cellophane / Mood to be wooed / My heart sings / Mood indigo / Bug in a rug / The mooche / Kandylamb / Perfume suite part. 1 : Under tha balcony - Strange feeling / Perfume suite part. 2 : Dancers in love / Coloratura.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1945
(CD CLASSICS / 915) France

April 21 to May 15, 1945



Frantic fantasy / It don't mean a thing / Black, Brown and Beige part. 1 : Blues / Black, Brown and Beige part. 2 : West indian dance - Emancipation celebration - Sugar hill penthouse / The kissing bug / Riff staccato / Prelude to a kiss / Caravan / Black and tan fantasy / Mood indigo / Harlem airshaft / The minor goes a muggin' / In a sentimental mood / It don't mean a thing / Sophisticated lady / Tonight I shall sleep / I let a song go out of my heart / Solitude.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1945 volume 2
(CD CLASSICS / 951) France

May 16 to July 24, 1945



Frankie and Johnny / Jumpin' room only / Black beauty / Every hour on the hour / Hollywood hangover / Kissing bug / In the shade of the old apple tree / Frankie and Johnny (parts 1 & 2) / Sugar hill penthouse / Diminuo in blue - Crescendo in blue / New world a comin' (parts 1 & 2) / Ring dem bells / Perfume suite : Strange feeling - Coloratura - Balcony serenade.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1945 - 1946
(CD CLASSICS / 985) France

July 30, 1945 to July 10, 1946



Perfume suite : Coloratura / Time's a-wastin' / Perfume suite : Dancers in love / Carnegie blues / Tell ya what I'm gonna do / Come to baby, do ! / I'm just a lucky so and so / Long, strong and consecutive / The wonder of you / Tonk / Drawing room blues / Esquire swank / C jam blues / Unbooted character / Rockabye river / Suddenly it jumped / Transblucency / Just squeeze me / A' gathering in a clearing / You don't love me no more / Pretty woman / Hey ! Baby.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1946
(CD CLASSICS / 1015) France

August 26 to November 23, 1946



(Back home again in) Indiana / Blues is the light / Lover man / Just you, just me / Beale street blues / My honey's lovin' arms / Memphis blues / I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you / Saint-Louis blues / Samp fire / Royal garden blues / Esquire swank / Midriff / Diminuendo in blue / Magenta haze / The golden cress / Sultry sunset / Deep South suite : Magnolia's dripping with molasse (part. 1) - Hearsay (Orson Welles) (part. 2) - Nobody was lookin' (part. 3) - Happy go lucky local (part. 4).

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1946 - 1947
(CD CLASSICS / 1051) France

November 25, 1946 to September 1st, 1947



Sultry sunset / Happy-go-lucky local (part 2) / Blue skies (Trumpet no end) / Happy-go-lucky local (part 1) / Hiawatha (The beautiful indians) / Flippant flurry / Golden feather / Minnehaha (The beautiful indians) / Overture to a jam session (parts 1 & 2) / Jam-a-ditty / Tulip or turnip / It shouldn't happen to a dream / Sophisticated lady / On the sunny side of the street / I can't give you anything but love / It don't mean a thing / Hy'a sue / Lady of the lavender mist / Women (They'll get you) / Change my ways / It's Monday everyday / Golden cress / Put yourself in my place, baby.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1947
(CD CLASSICS / 1086) France

September 29 to November 14, 1947



Put yourself in my place / Cowboy rhumba / The wildest gal in town / I feel and brook my heart / Antidisestablishmentarianismist / Don't be so mean to baby / It's mad, mad, mad ! / You gotta crawl before you walk / Change my ways / Kitty / Brown Penny / Change my ways / Boogie bop blues / Sultry serenade / Stomp, look and listen / Air conditioned jungle / Three cent stomp / Progressive gavotte / He makes me believe he's mine / Take love easy / I can't believe that you're in love with me / How high the moon / Singin' in the rain.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1947 - 1948
(CD CLASSICS / 1119) France

November 18, 1947 to November 13, 1948



Do nothin' till you hear from me / Don't get around much anymore / Once upon a time / It's love I'm in / I could get a man / On a turquoise cloud / I like the sunrise (instrumental) / Liberian suite : I like the sunrise (vocal) - Dance n° 1 - Dance n° 2 - Dance n° 3 - Dance n° 4 - Dance n° 5 / A woman and a man / The clothed woman / New York City blues / Let's go blues / The tattooed bride (part 1 & 2).

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1949 - 1950
(CD CLASSICS / 1191) France

September 1st, 1949 to September 21, 1950



You of all people / Creole love call / The greatest there is / Snibor / The world is waiting fot the sunrise / Joog, joog / Good woman blues / On the sunny side of the street / B-sharp Boston / Hello little boy / The greatest there is / Perdido / Take the A train / Untitled blues / Oscalypso / Blues for Blanton / Mean ol' choo choo / Me and my wig / How blue can you get / Juke bop boogie / Set' em up / New piano roll blues / The man I love.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1950
(CD CLASSICS / 1227) France

October 3 to December 18, 1950



Cotton tail / C jam blues / Flamingo / Bang-up blues / Things ain't what they used to be / Make no mistake / Tonk / Johnny come lately / In a blue summer garden / Great times / Build that railroad / Love you madly / Great times / The tattooed bride / Mood indigo.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1950 - 1951
(CD CLASSICS / 1258) France

December 18, 1950 to May 24, 1951



Sophisticated lady / Solitude / Night walk / Moonlight fiesta / She / The happening / Fancy dance / The hawk talks / V.I.P.'s boogie / Jam with Sam / Monologue (Pretty and the wolf) / Swamp drum / Sultry serenade / Indian summer / Britt-and-butter blues / Ting-a-ling / The eighth veil / Brown Betty.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1951
(CD CLASSICS / 1282) France

June 1st to December 11, 1951



Caravan / Alternate / Hoppin's John / Jumping with symphony sid / Deep purple / Please be kind / Smada / Rock-skippin' at the Blue Note / A ton paralell to Harlem (The Harlem suite) / Bensonality / Blues at sundown / Duet / Controversial suite : 1. Before the time - 2. Later / Azalea / Vagabonds / Something to live for.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1952
(CD CLASSICS / 1320) France

March 25 to July 1st, 1952



Skin deep / Sultry serenade / Sophisticated lady / Perdido / Caravan / Harlem suite / The hawk talks / Ellington medley / Jam with Sam / I love my lovin' lover / Come on home / Take the A train / The mooche.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1952 - 1953
(CD CLASSICS / 1350) France

July 1st, 1952 to April 9, 1953



Perdido / Skin deep / Ballin' the blues / Body and soul / Primpin' for the prom / The vulture song / Follow me / Satin doll / Without a song / Cocktails for two / My old flame / I can't give you anything but love / Notthin', nothin', baby / Stormy weather / Stardust / Three little words / Orson / Boo-dah / Blossom / Ballin' the blues / Warm valley.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1953
(CD CLASSICS / 1398) France

April 9 to July 1st, 1953



Flamingo / Bluejean beguine / Liza / Who knows / Retrospection / B sharp blues / Passion flower / Dancers in love / Reflections in D / Melancholia / Prelude to a kiss / In a sentimental mood / Things ain't what they used to be / All too soon / Janet / Give me the right / Is it a sin ? / Don't touch me / Basin street blues / Big drag / Hear my plea / Don't ever say goodbye / What more can I say ?

THE CHRONOLOGICAL DUKE ELLINGTON 1953 volume 2
(CD CLASSICS / 1432) France

December 3 to 28, 1953



Kinda dukish / Montevido / December blue / I'm just a lucky so and so / It shouldn't happen to a dream / What more can I say ? / Rockin' in rhythm / Ultra de luxe / Flying home / Chile bowl / Blue moon / Oh well / Just a-sittin' and a-rockin' / Ultra de luxe / Flying home / What more can I say ? / Serious serenade / Just a-sittin' and a-rockin' / Honeysuckle rose / Night time / Stompin' at the Savoy.