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Franco D'ANDREA
SOLO 5 - DUKE

(CD PHILOLOGY / W 405 2) Italy

2001

Medley : Take the A train - Perdido / Medley : I got it bad and that ain't good - It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing - I'm beginning to see the light / Caravan / Medley : In a sentimental mood - Just squeeze me - Sophisticated lady / The mooche / Prelude to a kiss / Satin doll / Solitude.

Franco D'ANDREA TRIO
CREOLE RHAPSODY
The Duke Ellington Suites chapter 1

(CD PHILOLOGY / W 314 2) Italy

2005
Franco d'Andrea (piano), Ares Tavolazzi (bass), Massimo Manzi (drums)


Under the balcony (take 1) / Afrique / Apes and peacocks (take 1) / Before the time / Bourbon Street jingling jollies (take 1) / Come Sunday / Creole rhapsody / Diminuendo in blue / Half the fun / Island virgin / Apes and peacocks (take 2) / Bourbon Street jingling jollies (take 2).

Franco D'ANDREA TRIO
NEW WORLD A-COMIN'
The Duke Ellington Suites chapter 2

(CD PHILOLOGY / W 315 2) Italy

2005
Franco d'Andrea (piano), Ares Tavolazzi (bass), Massimo Manzi (drums)


I like te sunrise / Lay by / Portrait of Wellman Braud / Isfahan (take 1) / Purple gazelle / New world a-comin' / Star-crossed lovers / Oclupaca / Reminiscin' in tempo / Music is my mistress / isfahan (take 2) / Bourbon street jingling jollies (take 3).

Franco D'ANDREA TRIO
DEEP SOUTH SUITE
The Duke Ellington Suites chapter 3

(CD PHILOLOGY / W 316 2) Italy

2005
Franco d'Andrea (piano), Ares Tavolazzi (bass), Massimo Manzi (drums)


Hearsay or Orson Welles (take 1) / The tattoed bride / Sunset and the mocking bird / The telecasters / Angu / Uwis / Something / Ouverture to a jam session / Hearsay or Orson Welles (take 2) / Under the balcony (take 2).

DANISH RADIO BIG BAND
A LITTLE BIT OF DUKE

(CD DACAP / DCCD 9420) Denmark

Copenhagen Jazzhouse - November 3rd, 1994
Conducted by Ole Kock Hansen




Bojangles / Come Sunday / Cotton tail / The governor / Blue rose / Rocking in rhythm / Blue light / Black and tan fantasy - The mooche / A litlle bit od Duke.

The Governor and A little bit of Duke are not Ellington tunes.

DANISH RADIO JAZZ ORCHESTRA
THE GOVERNOR

(CD STORYVILLE / STCD 4237) Denmark

Copenhagen Jazzhouse - March 9, 1999
Conducted by Niels Jorgen Steen




Take the A train / In a mellow tone / Prelude to a kiss / Main stem / Concerto for Cootie / Blue rose / Perdido / The Governor / Second line / Mood indigo / Harlem air shaft.

The Governor is not an Ellington tune.

John DANKWORTH
ECHOES OF HARLEM

(CD PROJAZZ / CDJ 679)

1988



Rockin' in rhythm / Cottontail / In a sentimental mood / Perdido / Come Sunday / Satin doll / Echoes of Harlem / Ellington medley : I let a song go out of my heart - Solitude - Don't get around much anymore - Sophisticated lady - It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing / Take the A train.

John DANKWORTH
IN A MELLOW TONE

(CD QNOTES RECORDS / QNT 10109) UK

2005



In a mellow tone / Tonight I shall sleep / Cotton tail / Lady Macbeth / Take the A train / Mood indigo / John Hardy's wife / Blue goose / Harlem airshaft / Prelude to a kiss / Jack the bear / Come Sunday.

DARMSTÄDTER BIGBAND
DUKE ELLINGTON'S SACRED CONCERT

(CD EFA / 06356) Germany

Darmstädter Stadtkirche - Octobre 31, 1999
Arranged by John Hoye & Peter Pederson, conducted by Peter Linhart
Kammerchor Darmstädter Kantorei, Regina Klein (soprano)




Praise God / Heaven / Freedom suite : To becontented - Freedom - World you heard - Freedom is world - Sweet, fat and that - Freedom-Svoboda - To be contended / The shepherd / The majesty of God / Come Sunday / Almighty God / Praise God and dance - Finale.

Maxwell DAVIS
COMPOSITIONS OF DUKE ELLINGTON AND OTHERS

(LP CROWN RECORDS / CST 183) USA

1977
B.B. king vocal on "Don't get around much anymore"




Side 1 : Cotton tail / Solitude / Jack the bear / Sophisticated lady / Jeep's blues.

Side 2 : Take the A train / Don't get around much anymore / Main stem / Mood indigo / East side, west side.

East side, west side is not an Ellington tune.

Maxwell DAVIS
A TRIBUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON

(CD GREEN HILL / GHD5051) USA

1977

Same as previous

Benoît DELBECQ
CRESCENDO IN DUKE

(CD NATO / 43) France

2012
With Steve Arguëlles, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Michael Bland, Tony Coe, Antonin-Tri Hong, the Hornheads, Tony Malaby andet Yohannes Tona




Bateau / Portrait of Mahalia Jackson / Portrait of Wellman Braud / The spring / Art o'clock rock / Whirpool / Goutelas suite : Fanfare - Goutelas - Get with itness - Something - Having at it / Blue pepper / Tina / Diminuendo and crescendo in blue / Fontainebleau forest.

Gene DiNOVI
PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON & BILLY STRAYHORN

(CD BALDIN STREET MUSIC)

Live - 2002

Tomorrow mountain / Introduction / Raincheck / Introduction / Morning glory / Introduction / Cop out / Introduction / Medley : A single petal of a rose - A flower is a lovesome thing / Introduction / Passion flower / Lady Mac / Introduction / Isfahan / I'm beginning to see the light / Medley : Chelsea bridge - Warm valley.

DMP BIG BAND
DMP BIG BAND SALUTES DUKE ELLINGTON

(CD DMP / CD 520)

1997

Kinda dukish - Rockin' in rhythm / The mooche / I'm beginning to see the light / Happy go lucky local / Mood indigo / C jam blues / Sophisticated lady / Caravan / Perdido / Jeep's blues / Things ain't what they used to be / What am I here for ? / Cottontail / Chelsea bridge.

Bill DOGGETT
A SALUTE TO ELLINGTON

(LP KING RECORDS / 533) USA

1957



Side 1 : Caravan / Prelude to a kiss / I'm just a lucky so and so / Solitude / I let a song go out of my heart / Don't get around much anymore.

Side 2 : I got it bad and that ain't good / Don't you know I care / C jam blues / Sophisticated lady / Satin doll / Perdido.

Arne DOMNERUS & Bengt HALLBERG
DUETS FOR DUKE

(LP SONET / SPL 2618)

1978



Side 1 : Solitude / Don't get around much anymore / Checkered hat / Serenade to Sweden / Ville's ville is the place, man.

Side 2 : I'm checkin' out, go'om bye / Take the A train / I got it bad and that ain't good / Squatty roo / Everything but you.

Arne DOMNERUS & Knud JORGENSEN
DUKE'S MELODY

(LP PHONTASTIC / PHONT 753)

1981

Side 1 : Black beauty / In a mellow tone / Drop me off at Harlem.

Side 2 : Everything but you / I got it bad and that ain't good / The brown skin gal.

DOODLIN'
IN A MELLOW TONE

(CD KAZOO - LA FABRIQUE) France

2012



Cotton tail / In a mellow tone / Just squeeze me / Caravan / Do nothing 'till you hear from me / All too soon / Love you madly / Perdido / Sophisticated lady / I'm beginning to see the light / Don't get around much anymore / Satin doll / It don't mean a thing.

Cleve DOUGLASS
DUKE ELLINGTON BOULEVARD

(CD NAMSKAR / N 45712) USA

1994

Alone on Saturday night : Don't get around much anymore / A visit with Queenie Pie : There / Woman / My father's island / Approaching love : Prelude to a kiss / I didn't know about you / A trip back in time : It don't mean a thing / The chocolate shake / Two melancholy moments : I got it bad and that ain't good / In a sentimental mood / A trip to exotic places : Caravan / On Duke Ellington Boulevard : Love you madly (takes 1 & 2).

DR. JOHN
DUKE ELEGANT

(CD PARLOPHONE / 2 23220 2)

1999



On the wrong side of the railroad tracks / I'm gonna go fishin' / It don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) / Perdido / Don't get around much anymore / Solitude / Satin doll / Mood indigo / Do nothing 'till you hear from me / Things ain't what they used to be / Caravan / Flaming sword.

Silvia DROSTE
DUKE'S SOUND OF LOVE

(CD LAIKA RECORDS / 3510103 2) Germany

2000

Cotton tail / Duke Ellington's sound of love / Take love easy / In a mellow tone / Rockin' in rhythm / I didn't know about you / Caravan / Time's a wastin' / Ballad medley : Day dream - The star-crossed lovers - Warm valley - Tonight I shall sleep with a smile on my face / Everything but you / The lonely ones / Oh ! Miss Jaxson.

Duke Ellington's sound of love is composed by Charles Mingus.

DUKE AND BILLY'S NEW COLORS
DUKE AND BILLY'S NEW COLORS

(CD JUSTE UNE TRACE - Ellington Conséquences Serie) France

April, 2022
Julie Saury (drums, percussions), Bruno Rousselet (bass), Frédéric Couderc (sax, flûtes & divers)
Guest : Sébastien Giniaux (guitar, cello), Claude Egéa (trumpet)



Prelude to a kiss / Satin doll / It don't mean a thing (solo) / Johnny come lately / Heaven / C jam blues (solo) / All too soon / In a sentimental mood / Half the fun (solo) / Oclupaca / Single petal of a rose / Come Sunday (solo).

DUKE ORCHESTRA
DUKE ELLINGTON IS ALIVE

(CD JUSTE UNE TRACE) France

1999
Conducted by Laurent Mignard




Ko-ko / Harlem airshaft / Black and tan fantasy / Kinda-dukish - Rockin' in rhythm / Sophisticated lady / Madness in great ones / Half the fun / Diminuendo and crescendo in blue / Isfahan / The eighth veil / It don't mean a thing / Ad lib on Nippon / Take the A train.

Laurent MIGNARD DUKE ORCHESTRA vs Michel PASTRE BIG BAND
BATTLE ROYAL

(CD JUSTE UNE TRACE) France

Live in Jazz à Vienne - July, 2011



Overture - Battle Royal / In a mellow tone / Manhattan murals - Take the A train / Dickie's dream / Kinda dukish - Rockin' in rhythm / Segue in C / It don't mean a thing / A midnight in Paris / Wild man moore / Jumpin' at the Woodside / Perdido.

DUKE ORCHESTRA
ELLINGTON FRENCH TOUCH

(CD JUSTE UNE TRACE) France

Clamart, France - December 27, 2011
Conducted by Laurent Mignard




The good life (La belle vie) / Goof / Gogo / Gigi / Paris blues / Battle royal / Paris blues (alternate bed) / Autumnal suite / Under Paris skies (Sous le ciel de Paris) / No regrets (Non, je ne regrette rien) / Daily double / Clopin-clopant / A midnight in Paris / The old circus train / Turcaret : Annonce (bandcall) & ouverture - Turcaret court - Flamant - La baronne - Madame Turcaret - Chevalier - Frontin (Sempre amore) - La colère de Turcaret - Lisette - Turcaret final.

The good life, Under Paris skies, No regrets and Clopin-clopant were french standards played by Ellington.

DUKE ORCHESTRA
SACRED CONCERT

(CD + DVD JUSTE UNE TRACE) France

Eglise de la Madeleine, Paris, France - Octobre 1st, 2014
Conducted by Laurent Mignard
With Mercedes Ellington (speaker), Emmanuel Pi Djob, Nicolle Rochelle et Sylvia Howard (vocal), Fabien Ruiz (tap dancer)
Les voix en mouvement + chords




CD : Praise God / Tell me it's the truth / Come Sunday / In the Beginning God / Almighty god - choral / The shepherd / Heaven / It's freedom / Meditation / Every man prays / The Lord's prayer / Praise God and dance.

DVD : Praise God / A glimpse of God / Something about believing / Reading the bible / In the beginning God / Almightty God / Pastor John G.Gensel / The shepherd / Optimism / Tell me it's the truth / Come Sunday / Every man prays... / The Lord's prayer / Heaven / It's freedom / Communication / Meditation / David danced before the Lord / Love / Is God a three letter before the Lord / Mistakes / Father forgive / Praise God and dance.

DUKE ORCHESTRA
JAZZY POPPINS

(CD JUSTE UNE TRACE) France

Pan Piper, Paris - January 7, 2018
Conducted by Laurent Mignard

Music of Mary Poppins with the Duke Ellington-Billy Strayhorn arrangements




Quelle vie parfaite (The life is lead) / La nounou idéale (The perfect Nanny) / Un p'tit morceau de sucre (A spoonful of sugar) / Jolie promenade (Jolly holiday) / Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious / Ne fermez pas vos beaux yeux (Stay awake) / C'est bon de rire (I love to laugh) / Nourrir les p'tits oiseaux (Feed the birds) / Chem cheminée (Chim chim cher-ee) / Beau cerf volant (Let's go fly a kite) / Gardez l'rythme (Step in time).

DUKE ORCHESTRA
DUKE LADIES VOL.1

(CD JUSTE UNE TRACE) France

2021
Conducted by Laurent Mignard
Featuring Natalie Dessay, Rhoda Scott, Roberta Gambarini, Nicolle Rochelle, Sylvia Howard, Myra Maud, Aurore Voilqué, Rachelle Plas, Julie Saury, Aurélie Tropez




Love you madly / Black beauty / Cotton tail / Warm valley / Bakiff / Satin doll / T.G.T.T. / Congo square / Sophiticated lady / Balcony serenade / Blues for New Orleans / Le sucrier velour / The tattoed bride.

DUKE ORCHESTRA
DUKE LADIES VOL.2

(CD JUSTE UNE TRACE) France

2021
Conducted by Laurent Mignard
Featuring Natalie Dessay, Rhoda Scott, Roberta Gambarini, Nicolle Rochelle, Sylvia Howard, Myra Maud, Aurore Voilqué, Julie Saury, Aurélie Tropez




The Lord's prayer / On a turquoise cloud / Lady Mac / Portrait of Mahalia Jackson / Something to live for / Flirtibird / Heaven / The blues / Lady of the lavendert mist / Golden feather / The closed woman / All heart / Perdido.

DUKE'S PLACE QUARTET
NEW ELLINGTON PROJECT

(CD JAZZ & C°) France

September 2018
Franck Pilandon (tenor & baryton), Fabien Mille (piano, arr.), André Wentzo (bass), Lionel Grivet (drums)




Kinda dukish - Rockin' in rhythm / Oclupaca / Perdido / New world a comin' / Cotton tail / Limbo jazz / Jubilee stomp / Way way back.

Bonus track : Jubilee stomp (version old styl bass : arco).

Harold DUMONT
SINGS DUKE ELLINGTON

(LP CLEEMO / CL 1001) Usa

1975


Side 1 : Do nothin' til you hear from me / Mood indigo / I let a song go out of my heart / Solitude / Don't get around much anymore.

Side 2 : Caravan / I got it bad and that ain't good / Prelude to a kiss / It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing / Sophisticated lady.

DUTCH SWING COLLEGE BAND
PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON

(CD MASTERTONE / 0883) Netherlands

1999



East St. Louis toodle-Oo / Goin' to town / I let a song go out of my heart / Cotton tail / Sophisticated lady / Things ain't what they used to be / Creole love call / Just squeeze me / Caravan / In a sentimental mood / Prelude to a kiss / Black and tan fantasy / Riff interlude / Do nothing till you hear from me / Take the A train.

Riff interlude is not an Ellington tune.