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Alice BABS & Duke ELLINGTON
SERENADE TO SWEDEN
(LP TELESTAR / TRS 11 100) Sweden

February 28 and March 1st, 1963
George Barboteu (fh), Percy Glascoe (cl), Joe Hrasko (as), Gérard Badini , Duke Ellington (p, except "Something to live for" : Billy Strayhorn), Gilbert Rovere (b), Christian Garros or Kenny Clarke (dm), Alice Babbs (vo)

Serenade to Sweden / The boy in my dream / Stoona / La de doody doo / Strange visitor / Azure / Come Sunday / C jam blues / I didn't know about you / Satin doll / Take love easy / Babsie / (I want) Something to live for / I'm beginning to see the light / Untitled lullaby.

Alice BABS
SERENADING DUKE ELLINGTON
(CD PROPHONE / PCD 021) Sweden

1974-1975
Nils Lindberg's Orchestra +and Ulf Wesslén (orgue)



Lady in blue / Me and you / Don't get around much anymore / Freedom I / There's something about me / Somebody cares / Warm valley / I don't mind / Jump for joy / I like the sunrise / Freedom I & III / Somebody cares / Thank you for everything / Something about believing / Solitude.

Alice BABS
FAR AWAY STAR
(CD BLUEBELL / ABCD 005) Europe



With Duke Ellington and his Orchestra - July 3, 1973

Far away star / Serenade to Sweden / Spaceman / Jeep's blues.

Nils Lindberg (piano) - Radio Sockholm, Stockholm - May 15, 1976

Day dream.

With Nils Lindberg - Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm - November 25, 1974

Serenade to Sweden / Is God three-letter world of love / Jump for joy / Warm valley / Blues for Maestro.

Eugenie BAIRD
SINGS, DUKE'S BOYS PLAY
(CD FRESH SOUND RECORDS / FSR 1610)

New York - November 1958



I'm beginning to see the light / In a sentimental mood / Something to live for / Mood indigo / Everything but you / I let a song go out of my heart / Lush life / Solitude / Pass me by (Love has passed me by again) / Well well.

Well well is not an Ellington tune, Pass me by is from Billy Strayhorn.

Chris BARBER'S JAZZ BAND
ECHOES OF ELLINGTON
(LP x 3 BLACK LION / INT 187.000)

Live at St. Ivo Centre, St. Ives, UK - June 3, 1976



DISC 1 : Stevedore stomp / Jeep's blues / I'm slapping seventh avenue (With the sole of my shoe) / Mood indigo / Shout 'em Aunt Tillie.

DISC 2 : I a mellotone / Prelude to a kiss / Second line / Perdido / Warm valley / Caravan / Sophisticated lady.

DISC 3 : Squatty roo / Blues for Duke / Take the A train / It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing / Just squeeze me / The mooche / The jeep is jumpin'.

Daniel BARENBOIM
TRIBUTE TO ELLINGTON
(CD TELDEC / 25 252 2)

1998 - 1999



Do nothing till you hear from me / Satin doll / Sophisticated lady / Caravan / Don't get around much anymore / Azure / Squatty roo / Prelude to a kiss / Mood indigo - Purple gazelle / Star-crossed lovers / Zweet zurzday (from Suite thurday) / Take the A train / In a sentimental mood / Fast & furious.

Alan BARNES
HARLEM AIRSHAFT
(CD WOODVILLE / WVCD 122)

2008



Take the A train / Snibor / Second line / Black butterfly / Fantazm / Harlem Airshaft / Sunswept Sunday / Battle royal / Tonight I shall sleep (With a smile on my face) / Fife / Brown Penny / La plus belle africaine.

Charlie BARNET
CHARLIE BARNET PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON
(25 cm RCA VICTOR / LPT 3062)

1954

Rockin' in rhythm / Harlem speaks / The sergeant was shy / The gal form Joe's / Ring dem bells / Lament for a lost love / Birmingham breakdown / The Duke's idea.

Charlie BARNET
THE MUSIC OF DUKE ELLINGTON
(LP LIMITED EDITION RECORDS / LP 101)

C jam blues / Take the A train / The sergeant was shy / I didn't know about you / Mainstem / Sentimental lady / Cottontail / The duke's idea / Prelude to a kiss / Rockin' in rhythm / I let a song go out of my heart / In a mellow tone / Caravan / Ring dem bells / Rhapsody in Harlem.

BARRELHOUSE JAZZBAND
PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON
(CD BELLAPHON / CDLR 40026) Germany

1988



A date with the Duke / Medley number one : Rockin' in rhythm - Black and tan fantasy - East St. Louis toodle-Oo - Mood indigo - Creole love call - Things ain't what they used to be - Rockin' in rhythm / I let a song go out of my heart / Medley number two : Take the A train - In my solitude - Caravan - The mooche - Cotton tail / I let a song go out of my heart.

A date with the Duke is not an Ellington tune.

BASIE ORCHESTRA (without Count Basie)
COUNT PLAYS DUKE
(CD MAMA / MMF 1024)

1998



Take the A train / It don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) / I got it bad and that ain't good / I let a song go out of my heart / Just squeeze me (But don't tease me) / Do nothin' till you hear from me / The star-crossed lovers / Love you madly / In a sentimental mood / Cottontail / Paris blues / Mood indigo / I'm just a lucky so and so.

Sathima BEA BENJAMIN
SATHIMA SINGS ELLINGTON
(LP EKAPA / EK 001) USA

New York - April, 1979

In a mellow tone / Prelude to a kiss / Sophisticated lady / Mood indigo / Lush life / I let a song go out of my heart / Solitude.

Joe BECK (see Jay LEONHART)

Louie BELLSON
BLACK, BROWN & BEIGE
(CD LIMELIGHT / 522 429 2)

1992



The hawk talks / Skin deep / BLACK : Work song - Come Sunday - Light / BROWN : West indian dance - Emancipation proclamation - The blues / BEIGE / ELLINGTON-STRAYHORN SUITE : European skallyhoppin' - Portrait of Billy Strayhorn - Sketches.

Tony BENNETT
SINGS ELLINGTON HOT & COOL
(CD RPM RECORDS / CK 63668)

1999



Do nothin' till you hear from me / Mood indigo / She's got it bad (And that ain't good) / Caravan / Chelsea bridge / Azure / I'm just a lucky so and so / In a sentimental mood / Don't get around much anymore / Sophisticated lady / In a mellow tone / Day dream / Prelude to a kiss / I don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing).

Bill BERRY and his ELLINGTON ALL-STARS
FOR DUKE
(CD M & K REALTIME RECORDS / RT 101)

1978
Bill Berry (trumpet), Britt Woodman (trombone), Marshall Royal (alto sax), Scott Hamilton (tenor sax), Nat Pierce (piano), Ray Brown (bass), Frankie Capp (drums)

Take the A train / Mood indigo / Things ain't what they used to be / Perdido / Satin doll / I got it bad (And that ain't good) / I let a song go out of my heart / Cottontail.

Pierre BERTRAND
FAR EAST SUITE
(CD CRISTAL RECORDS / CR 278) France

2018



Tourist point of view / Minah / Isfahan / Depk / Mount Harissa / Blue pepper / Agra / Amad / Ad lib on Nippon.

Gustavo BEYTELMANN TRIO
TANGO A LA DUKE
(CD BIRAM / 97 000 11) France

1997
Gustavo Beytemann (piano), Juan José Mosalini (bandonéon), Roberto Tormo (bass)



Me pongo sentimental (In a sentimental mood) / Soledad (Solitude) / Caravana (Caravane) / Muneca satinada (Satin doll) / Take the A train / Dama sofisticado (Sophisticated lady) / Preludio de un beso (Prelude to a kiss) / I got it bad (and that ain't good) / Humor indigo (Mood indigo) / Day dream.

PAUL BLEY
CARAVAN SUITE
(CD STEEPLE CHASE / SCCD 31316) Denmark

1993

Caravan suite : Section 1 - Section 2 - Section 3 - Section 4 / I got it bad and that ain't good / In my solitude / I'm beginning to see the light.

Dan BLOCK
FROM HIS WORLD TO MINE
Plays the music of Duke Ellington
(CD MILES HIGH RECORDS / MHR 8612) USA

2010

Kissing bug / New York City blues / Old King Dooji / Morning glory / Are you stickin' ? / The beautiful indians : Minnehaha / Suburbanite / Ballad medley : All heart - Change my ways / Portrait of Bert Williams / Mount Harrissa / Creole blues / Cotton Club stomp / Rocks in my bed / Second line.

Claude BOLLING
PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON
(CD FONTANA / 546 197 2) France

Paris - November 19 and 24, 1959
Claude Bolling (piano), Jacques Hess (bass), Arnie Wise (drums)



Don't get around much anymore / Satin doll / Black beauty / The telecasters / Sophisticated lady / Dancers in love / Things ain't what they used to be / Day dream / Just squeeze me / Lady of the lavender mist / I'm beginning to see the light / Prelude to a kiss / It don't mean a thing.

BOLLING BAND
PLAYS ELLINGTON MUSIC volume 1
(CD CBS / MK 42 474) Europe

1987



Stomp, look and listen / Blue Serge / Ko-ko / Echoes of Harlem / Sepia panorama / Cotton tail / Sophisticated lady / It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing / Magenta haze / In a mellow tone / Rockin' in rhythm.

BOLLING BAND
PLAYS ELLINGTON MUSIC volume 2
(CD CBS / MK 42 476) Europe

1987



Take the A train / Lady of the lavender mist / Midriff / Chelsea bridge / Perdido / Upper Manhattan Medical Group / Mood indigo / I let a song go out of my heart - Don't get around much anymore / Diminuendo and crescendo in blue.

BOLLING BIG BAND
BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE
(CD ADES / 14 168 2) France

Théâtre du Centre Culturel de Paris-le Perreux - January 3 and 4, 1989



BLACK : Work song - Come sunday - Light (parties 1 to 3) / BROWN : West indian dance - Emancipation - The blues / BEIGE : War - Sugar hill penthouse - Rock waltz - Symphonette - Final.

Claude BOLLING BIG BAND
A DRUM IS A WOMAN
(CD MILAN JAZZ / 40906 2) Europe

Théâtre National de Chaillot - Paris - April 4 and 5, 1996



A drum is a woman / Rhythm pum te dum / What else can you do with a drum / New Orleans / Hey, Buddy Bolden / Carribee Joe / Congo square / A drum is a woman, part 2 / You better know it / Madam Zajj / Ballet of the flyin' saucers / Zajj's dream / Rhumbop / Carribee Joe Part 2 / Final.

Claude BOLLING BIG BAND
BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE / A DRUM IS A WOMAN
(CD double MILAN / 67938 2)

1989 - 1996

This album group together BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE and A DRUM IS A WOMAN

Claude BOLLING BIG BAND
A TONE PARALLEL TO HARLEM
(CD MILAN JAZZ / 69 988 2) Europe

1976 to 1999



Harlem (A tone parallel to) / Ring dem bells / Things ain't what they used to be / Creole love call / Drop me off in Harlem / It don't mean a thing / Just squeeze me / Caravan / Harlem air shaft / Moon mist / Jungle traps / Duke on my mind / Lot o'fingers / Diminuendo in blue - Blow by blow / Crescendo.

Thomas BRAMERIE (see André VILLEGER)

BRATISLAVA HOT SERENADERS
PRESENTS EDWARD "DUKE" ELLINGTON
(CD DOLIS) Slovakia

2003 to 2008



The creeper / Creole love call / East St. Louis toodle-Oo / Washington wobble / Take it easy / Jubilee stomp / Black beauty (Fire water) / I can't give you anything but love / The mooche / Swampy river / Cotton Club stomp / The dicty glide / Double check stomp / Sweet jazz of mine / Jungle nights in Harlem / Old man blues / Mood indigo / Cotton Club stomp (take B) / Rockin' in rhythm / Black beauty (piano solo version).

Teresa BREWER with Shelly MANNE
A SOPHISTICATED LADY
(CD COLUMBIA / CK 37 363)

1981

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing / Don't get around much anymore / Sophisticated lady / Solitude / Duke's place / Come Sunday / I'm beginning to see the light / I got it bad and that ain't good / I let a song go out of my heart.

Anthony BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA
FAR EAST SUITE
(CD ASIAN IMPRO RECORDS / AIR 0053) USA

1999

Tourist point of view / Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) / Isfahan / Depk / Mount Harrissa (prelude) / Mount Harrissa / Blue pepper (Far east suite of the blues) / Agra / Amad / Ad lib on Nippon.

Dave BRUBECK QUARTET
NEWPORT 1958 - BRUBECK PLAYS ELLINGTON
(CD GAMBIT RECORDS / 69322)

Newport Jazz Festival - July 1958



Things ain't what they used to be / Jump for joy / Perdido / Dance n° 3 from "Liberian Suite" / The Duke / Flamingo / C jam blues - Take the A train.

Kenny BURRELL
ELLINGTON IS FOREVER volume 1
(CD FANTASY / FCD 79005 2)

Berkeley - February 4 and 5, 1975



Jump for joy / Caravan / Chelsea bridge / Mood indigo / Don't get around much anymore / C jam blues / It don't mean a thing ( If it ain't got that swing) / I didn't know about you / My little brown bbok / Blues medley : Carnegie blues - Rocks in my bed - Jeep's blues - Creole love call / Do nothin' till you hear from me / Take the A train.

Kenny BURRELL
ELLINGTON IS FOREVER volume 2
(CD FANTASY / FCD 79008 2)

Berkeley - November and December, 1975



Azure / Take the A train / In a sentimental mood / I'm beginning to see the light / Satin doll / I'm just a lucky so and so / In a mellow tone / Solitude / Jeep is jumpin' / I let a song go out of my heart / Prelude to a kiss / Satin doll (segue) / Come sunday / Just squeeze me / I ain't got nothin' but the blues / Orson.

Kenny BURRELL
ELLINGTON A LA CARTE
(CD MUSE RECORDS / MCD 5435)

Village West, New York - August, 1983
Kenny Burrel (guitar), Rufus Reid (bass)

Take the A train / Sultry sunset / Flamingo / In a mellow tone / Don't worry 'bout me / Ellington medley : Azure - I ain't got nothing but the blues - Do nothing till you hear from me - Mood indigo / Blues for Duke.

Gary BURTON (see Jay LEONHART)

Billy BYERS
IMPRESSIONS OF DUKE ELLINGTON
(LP MERCURY / PPS 2028) USA

1962



Side 1 : Take the A train / Sophisticated lady / Just squeeze me (but don't tease me) / Chelsea bridge / Caravan.

Side 2 : Mood indigo / I'm beginning to see the light / Solitude / Don't get around much anymore / All too soon.