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THE DUKE
The complete works 1924-1947

(Box of 20 CD double / HISTORY)

1924 to 1947

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THE DUKE 1924-1928
Hop head

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4140-302)

November, 1924 to January 19, 1928



CD 1 : Choo choo (goota 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 Saint-Louis toodle-Oo / Birmingham breakdown / Immigration blues / The creeper / New Orleans lowdown / Song of the cotton field / Birmingham breakdown / East Saint-Louis toodle-Oo (2 versions) / Hop head.

CD 2 : Down in the alley blues / Black and tan fantasy / Soliloquy / Washington wobble / Creole love call / The blues I love to sing / Black and tan fantasy / Washington wobble / What can a poor fellow do ? / Black and tan fantasy / Chicago stomp down / Harlem river quiver / East Saint-Louis toodle-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.

THE DUKE 1928
Jubilee stomp

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4141-302)

January 19 to Decembre 1928



CD 1 : Jubilee stomp / Harlem twist (East St. Louis toodle-Oo) / Jubilee stomp / Take it easy (2 takes) / Jubilee stomp / Black beauty (Firewater) / Black beauty / 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.

CD 2 : The mooche / Hot and bothered / Move over / The mooche / Louisiana / Awful sad / The mooche / Santa Claus bring my man back / I done caught the blues / I can't give you anything but love / No, papa, no (instrumental) / No, papa, no (vocal) / Bandanna babies / Diga diga doo / I must have that man / The blues with a feelin' / Goin' to town / Misty mornin' / Hottentot / Misty mornin'.

THE DUKE 1928-1929
High life

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4142-302)

December 20, 1928 to September 13, 1929



CD 1 : St. Louis blues / Doin' the voom voom / Tiger rag (Part 1) / Tiger rag (Part 2) / Flaming youth / Saturday night function / High life / Doin' the voom voom / Japanese dream / Harlemania / Rent party blues / Paducah / Harlem flat blues / The dicty glide / Hot feet / Sloopy Joe / Stevedore stomp / Saratoga swing / Who said "It's tight like that" ? / He just don't appeal to me.

CD 2 : I must have that man / Freeze and melt / Mississippi moan / A nite at the Cotton Club Part 1 (Intro - Cotton Club stomp - Misty mornin') / A nite at the Cotton Club Part 2 (Intro - Goin' to town - Freeze and melt) / Cotton Club stomp / Misty mornin' / Arabian lover / Saratoga swing / That rhythm man / Beggar's blues / Saturday night function / Black and blue / Jungle jamboree / Jungle jamboree / Doin' the voom voom / Flaming youth / Saturday night function / Jolly wog.

THE DUKE 1929-1930
The Duke steps out

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4143-302)

September 13, 1929 to June 12, 1930



CD 1 : Jazz convulsions / Mississippi / The Duke steps out / Hauted 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 / Wallstreet wail / Cincinatti daddy / St. James infirmary / When you're smiling (The whole world smiles with you) / Rent party blues.

CD 2 : Jungle blues / Admiration / Maori (A samoan dance) / When you're smiling / Sing, you sinners / St. James infirmary / The mooche / Ragamuffin Romeo / 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, Aut Tillie / Sweet Mama.

THE DUKE 1930-1931
Black and tan fantasy

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4144-302)

June 12, 1930 to January 14, 1931



CD 1 : Hot and bothered / 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 / Runnin' wild / Dream blues (Mood indigo) / Home again blues / Wang-wang blues / Ring dem bells / Three little words.

CD 2 : Old man blues / Sweet chariot / Mood indigo / I can't realise you love me / I'm so in love with you / Rockin' in rhythm / Nine little miles from 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.

THE DUKE 1931-1932
Creole rhapsody

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4145-302)

January 14, 1931 to September 21, 1932



CD 1 : Twelfth street rag / Rockin' in rhythm / The river and me / Keep a song in your soul / Sam and Delilah / The peanut vendor / Creole rhapsody (part. 1 & 2) / Is that religion ? / Creole rhapsody (part. 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.

CD 2 : Baby, when you ain't there / East St. Louis toodle-Oo - Lot's o'finger - Black and tan fantasy / Dinah / Bugle call rag / St. Louis blues / Creole love call / Rose room / 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.

THE DUKE 1932-1934
Sophisticated lady

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4146-302)

September 22, 1932 to January 9, 1934



CD 1 : Stars / Swing low / Baby ! / Any time, any day, any where / Delta bound / Diga diga doo / I can't give you anythhing but love / Porgy / I must have that man / Baby ! / Eerie moon / 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.

CD 2 : Raisin' the rent / Get yourself at new broom (and sweep the blues away) / Bundle of blues / Sophisticated lady / Stormy weather (keep rain all the time) / Hyde Park / Harlem speaks / Ain't misbehavin' / Chicago / A souvenir of Duke Ellington / I'm satisfied / Jive stomp / Harlem speaks / In the shade of the old apple tree / Rude interlude / Dallas doings / Dear old Southland / Daybreak express / Delta serenade / Stompy Jones.

THE DUKE 1934-1936
Solitude

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4147-302)

January 10, 1934 to February 28, 1936



CD 1 : 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 / Let's have a jubilee / Porto rican chaos / Margie / Moonlight fiesta / Tough truckin'.

CD 2 : Indigo echoes / In a sentimental mood / Showboat shuffle / Merry-go-round / Admiration / Cotton / Truckin' / Accent on youth / Reminiscing in tempo (Parts 1 to 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 / Echoes of Harlem / Love is like a cigarette / Kissin' my baby good-night.

THE DUKE 1936-1937
Scattin' at the Cotton Club

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4148-302)

Fabruary 28, 1936 to April 29, 1937



CD 1 : Oh Babe ! Maybe someday / Shoe shine boy / It was a sad night in Harlem / Trumpet's in spades (Rex's concerto) / Yearning for love / In a jam / Exposition swing / Uptown downbeat (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 / Sophisticated lady - In a sentimental mood / The new Birmingham breakdown / Scattin' at the Kit Kat.

CD 2 : I got to be a rug cutter / The new East St. Louis toodle-Oo / I can't believe you're in love with me / Downtown uproar / Digga digga do / Blue reverie / Whispering tiger (Tiger rag) / My honey's lovin' arms / Did anyone ever tell you ? / Alabamy 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 / Four and one half street / Demi-tasse.

THE DUKE 1937-1938
Jazz a la carte

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4149)

April 29, 1937 to February 2, 1938



CD 1 : Jazz a la carte / Caravan / Azure / Follin' myself / A sailboat in the moonlight / You'll never go to heaven (if you break my heart) / Peckin' / All God's chillun got rhythm (instrumental) / All God's chillun got rhythm (vocal) / Alabamy home / Get it southern style / Moonlight fiesta / Sponge cake and spinash / 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 an trumpets / Chatter-box / Jubilesta.

CD 2 : 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 / Stepping into swing society / Prologue to Black and tan fantasy / The new Black and tan fantasy / Drummer's delight / If I thought you cared / Have a heart (Lost in meditation) / My day / Silvery moon and golden sands / Echoes of Harlem / Riding on a blue note / Lost in meditation / The gal from Joe's.

THE DUKE 1938
Rendevous with rhythm

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4150-302)

February 25 to August 9, 1938



CD 1 : If you were in my place (what would you do) / Scrounch / I let a song go out of my heart / Braggin' in brass / Carnaval in Caroline / Jeep's blues / If you were in my place (what would you do) / I let a song go out of my heart / Rendevous with rhythm / A lesson in C / Swingtime in Honolulu / Carnaval in Caroline / Old man river / Swingtime in Honolulu / I'm slappin' seventh avenue (with the sole of my shoes) / 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 birdies go tweet-tweet-tweet).

CD 2 : Watermelon man / A gypsy without a song / The stevedore's stomp / La dee 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 / Blue is the evening / Sharpie / Swing pan alley / A blue serenade / Love in swingtime / Please forgive me / Lambeth walk.

THE DUKE 1938-1939
Prelude to a kiss

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4151)

August 9, 1938 to March 21, 1939



CD 1 : 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 blue / Twist 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 / Delta mood / The boys from Harlem / Mobile bay / Gal-avantin'.

CD 2 : Blue light (Transblucency) / Old King Dooji / Boy 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 / Lady in blue / Smorgasbord and snapps / Savoy strut / Rent party blues.

THE DUKE 1939
I'm checkin' out, goom bye

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4152)

March 21 to October 14, 1939



CD 1 : Dance of the goon / Good gal blues / Finess (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 / Chew chew chew (chew you bubble gum) / Barney goin' easy / Just another dream / In a mizz / I'm checkin' out, goom bye.

CD 2 : A lonely co-ed / You can count on me / Night song / Blues a-poppin' / Top and bottom / Black beauty / Boucing buoyancy / The sergeant was shy / I'm checkin' out, goom-bye / Tootin' through the roof / 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).

THE DUKE 1940
Cotton tail

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4153-302)

February 15 to November 2, 1940



CD 1 : Toasted pickle / Give it up / You, you darlin' / Jack the bear / Ko-ko / Morning glory / So far, si good / Conga 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.

CD 2 : All too soon / Rumpus in Richmond / My greatest mistake / Sepia panorama / 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 track blues / Chloe (song of the swamp) / I never felt this way before / Day dream / Good Queen Bess / That's the blues, old man.

THE DUKE 1940-1941
Blue Serge

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4154-302)

November 2, 1940 to September 26, 1941



CD 1 : Junior hop / Without a song / My Sunday gal / Mobile bay / Linger a while / Charlie the chulo / Lament for javanettte / A lul 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.

CD 2 : 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 calico gown) / Jump for joy (2 takes) / Moon over Cuba / Some Saturday / Subtle slough / Menelik - The lion of Judah / Poor Bubber / Squaty roo / Passion flower / Things ain't what they used to be / Goin' out the back way / Five o'clock drag / Rock in my bed.

THE DUKE 1941-1944
Chelsea bridge

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4155-302)

September 26, 1941 to December 12, 1944



CD 1 : Bli-blip / Chelsea bridge / Brown Suede / Noir Bleu / C jam blues / June / Rain check / What good would it do ? / I don't know what kind of blues I got / Chelsea bridge / Perdido / 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.

CD 2 : Sentimental lady / A slip of the lip (Can sink a ship) / Sherman shuffle / Boy meets horn / Hop, skip and jump / Things ain't what they used to be / Main stem / Creole love call / The mood to be wooed / My little brown book / I'm checkin' out, goom bye / Tootin' through the roof / I ain't got nothin' but the blues / I'm beginning to see the light / Don't you know I care (Or don't you care to know) / I didn't know about you / Work song / Come Sunday / The Blues / Three dances.

THE DUKE 1945
Mood indigo

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4156-302)

January 4 to June 9, 1945



CD 1 : Carnegie blues / Blue cellophane / The Mood to be wooed / My heart sings / Mood indigo / Bug in a rug / The mooche / Kandylamb / Perfume Suite Pt. 1: Under the Balcony - Strange feeling / Perfume Suite Pt. 2: Dancer in love - Coloratura / Frantic fantasy / It don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) / Black, Brown And Beige Pt. 1 : Blues / Black, Brown And Beige Pt. 2 : West indian dance - Emancipation celebration - Sugar hill penthouse / Kissing bug / Everything but you / (Otto make that) Riff staccato / Prelude to a kiss / Caravan / Black and tan fantasy.

CD 2 : Mood indigo / Harlem air shaft / The minor goes a muggin' / 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) / I let a gong go out of my heart / Solitude / Frankie and Johnnie / Jumpin' room only / Black beauty / Every hour on the hour (I fall in love with you) / Hollywood hangover / Kissing bug / In the shade of the old apple tree / Frankie and Johnnie - Pt. 1 / Frankie And Johnnie - Pt. 2 / Sugar hill penthouse (Black, Brown and Beige) / Diminuendo in blue - Crescendo in blue.

THE DUKE 1945-1946
New world a-comin'

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4157)

June 16, 1945 to September 3, 1946



CD 1 : New world a comin' Part 1 / New world a comin' Part 2 / Prelude to a kiss / Ring dem bells / Perfume suite : Strange feeling / Perfume suite : Coloratura / Perfume suite : Balcony serenade / Perfume suite : Coloratura / Time's a wastin' / Perfume suite : Dancers in love / Carnegie blues / Tell ya what I'm gonna 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.

CD 2 : 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 / Indiana / Blue 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 / St. Louis blues / Swamp fire / Royal garden blues.

THE DUKE 1946
Magenta haze

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4158)

January 4, 1946 to December 24, 1947



CD 1 : Esquire swank / Midriff / Diminuendo in blue / Magenta haze / The golden cress / Sultry sunset / Deep South suite : Magnola's dripping with molasses - Hearsay or Orson Welles - Nobody was lookin - Happy go lucky local / Liberian suite : I like the sunrise - Dance n° 1 - Dance n° 2 - Dance n° 3 - Dance n° 4 - Dance n° 5.

CD 2 : Take the A train / Melloditti - Fugueaditti - Jam-a-ditty / Magenta haze / Diminuendo in blue - Transblucency / Crescendo in blue / Suburbanite / I'm just a lucky so and so / Riffin' drill.

THE DUKE 1946-1947
In a mellow tone

(CD double HISTORY / 20 4159)

January 4, 1946 (CD 1) and December 27, 1947 (CD 2)



CD 1 : Caravan / In a mellow tone / Solid old man / Spiritual (Come Sunday) - Work song / The blues / Rugged Romeo / Sono / Air-conditioned jungle / Pitter panther patter.

CD 2 : The new look (Snibor) / Blue Serge / Triple play / Harlem airshaft / Johnny Hodges medley : Wanderlust - Junior hop - Jeep's blues - Squatty roo - The mood to be wood / Mella brava / Kickapoo joy juice / On a turquoise cloud / Bakiff / Cotton tail.