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THE INDISPENSABLE DUKE ELLINGTON Volumes 1/2
Jazz Tribune n° 21
(CD double RCA / 74321226192) France

October 26, au November 14, 1929



CD 1 : Creole love call / The blues I love to sing / Black and tan fantasy / Washington wobble / Harlem river quiver / East St. Louis toodle-Oo / Blue bubbles / Black beauty / Jubilee stomp / Got everything but you / The mooche / Flaming youth / Saturday night function / High life.

CD 2 : Doin' the voom voom / Harlemania / The dicty glide / Hot feet / Sloopy Joe / Stevedore stomp / Cotton Club stomp / Misty mornin' / Saragota swing / Mississippi dry / The Duke steps out / Haunted nights / Swanee shuffle / Breakfast dance / Jazz lips.

THE INDISPENSABLE DUKE ELLINGTON Volumes 3/4
Jazz Tribune n° 28
(CD double RCA / 74321226202) France

April 11, 1930 to May 9, 1934



CD 1 : Double check stomp / Sweet dreams of love / Jungle nights in Harlem / Sweet jazz o'mine / Shout'em, Aut Tillie / Ring dem bells / Old man blues / Nine little miles from Ten Ten Tennessee / When a black man's blue / Mood indigo / Rockin' in rhythm / Creole rhapsody / Limehouse blues / Echoes of the jungle / It's glory / The mystery song.

CD 2 : Dinah / Bugle call rag / Rude interlude / Dallas doings / Dear old Southland / Daybreak express / Delta serenade / Stompy Jones / Solitude / Blue feeling / Ebony rhapsody / Live and love tonight / I met my Waterloo / My old flame / Troubled waters / My old flame.

THE INDISPENSABLE DUKE ELLINGTON Volumes 5/6
Jazz Tribune n° 33
(CD double RCA / ND 89 750) France

194O

CD 1 : Jack the bear / Ko-ko (2 takes) / Morning glory / Conga brava / Concerto for Cootie / Bojangles / Cotton tail / Never no lament / Dusk / Bojangles / A portrait of Bert Williams / Blue goose / Harlem airshaft / At a dixie roadside diner / All too soon.

CD 2 : Rumpus in Richmond / Sepia panorama / In a mellotone / Five o'clock whistle / Warm valley / Across the tracks blues / Chloe / The sidewalks of New York / Pitter panther patter (2 takes) / Body and soul (2 takes) / Sophisticated lady (2 takes) / Mr J.B. blues (2 takes).

THE INDISPENSABLE DUKE ELLINGTON Volumes 7/8
Jazz Tribune n° 55
(CD double RCA / ND 89 274) France

February, 1941 au July 28, 1942



CD 1 : Take the A train / Jumpin' punkins / John Hardy's wife / Blue Serge / After all / Are you sticking ? / Just a-settin' and a-rockin' / The giddybug gallop / Chocolate shake / I got it bad and that ain't good / Clementine / Brown-skinned gal in the caligo gown / Jump for joy / Five o'clock drag / Rocks in my bed / Bli-blip.

CD 2 : Raincheck / I don't know what kind of blues I've got / Chelsea bridge / Perdido / The C jam blues / Moon mist / What am I here for / I don't mind / Someone / My little brown book / Main stem / Johnny come lately / Hayfoot, strawfoot / Sentimental lady (I didn't know about you) / A slip of the lip (Can sink a ship) / Sherman shuffle.

THE INDISPENSABLE DUKE ELLINGTON Volumes 9/10
Jazz Tribune n° 60
(CD double RCA / 74321155232) France

May 14, 1941 to january 10, 1946
THE SMALL GROUPS : Barney Bigard and his Orchestra, Duke Ellington (piano solo), Rex Stewart and his Orchestra, Johnny Hodges and his Orchestra, Duke Ellington and his Rhythm, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn



CD 1 : Day dream / Good Queen Bess / That's the blues old man / Junior hop / Without a song / My sunday gal / Mobile bay / Linger awhile / Charlie the chulo / Lament for javanette / A lull at dawn / Ready Eddy / Dear old southland / Solitude.

CD 2 : Some saturday / Subtle slought / Menelik the lion of Judah / Poor Bubber / Squatty roo / Passion flower / Things ain't what they used to be / Goin' out the back way / Brown Suede / Noir bleu / "C" blues / June / Frankie and Johnny / Jumpin' room only / Tonk / Drawing room blues.

THE INDISPENSABLE DUKE ELLINGTON Volumes 11/12
Jazz Tribune n° 69
(CD double RCA / 74321155242) France

December 11, 1944 to September 3, 1946



CD 1 : I'm beginning to see the light / Black, Brown and Beige : Work song - Come Sunday - The blues - Three dances / Carnegie blues / The mood to be wood / (Otto make that) Riff staccato / Prelude to a kiss / Caravan / Black and tan fantasy / Mood indigo / In a sentimental mood / It don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) / Sophisticated lady / Tonight I shall sleep (With a smile on my face).

CD 2 : I let a song go out of my heart / Solitude / Black beauty / Perfume suite : Balcony serenade - Strange feeling - Dancers in love - Coloratura / Time's a-wasting (Things ain't what they used to be) / Rockabye river / Suddenly it jumped / Transblucency / Just squeeze me / A gathering in a clearing / Beale street blues / Memphis blues / St. Louis blues / Swamp fire / Royal garden blues.