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SAX FOUR FIRES
IN THE TIME FOREVER
Tribute to Duke Ellington
(CD ALESSIO BROCCA) Italy

2007
Paolo Favini, Claudio Tripoli, Antonello Monni, Francesco Esposito
Guest : Bob Mintzer

It don't mean a thing / C jam blues / Sophisticated lady / Take the A train / Road's night * / In a mellow tone / Mood indigo / I let a song go out of my heart / Caravan / In a sentimental mood / Satin doll / To Mr Duke * / Last time * / Just squeeze me / Do nothin' till you hear from me / Don't get around much anymore / Prelude to a kiss / Perdido.

* : not Ellington tunes.

Louis SCLAVIS
ELLINGTON ON THE AIR
(CD IDA RECORDS / IDA 032 CD) France

1992

Caravan - Caravalse / Prelude - Prelude to a kiss / Jubille stomp - J'oublie - Jubilee stomp / Bakiff / Indigofera tinctoria - Mode Andy go / Heaven / Harlem pancake - A tone parallel to Harlem - West indian pancake / Black and tan fantasy.

Shirley SCOTT
SCOTTIE PLAYS THE DUKE
(LP PRESTIGE / 7163) USA

1959

Side 1 : Caravan / Just squeeze me / C jam blues / Prelude to a kiss.

Side 2 : In a sentimental mood / In a mellow tone / I've got it bad and that ain't good / Just a-settin' and a-rockin'.

SCOTTISH NATIONAL JAZZ ORCHESTRA
IN THE SPIRIT OF THE DUKE
(CD SPARTACUS RECORDS / ST 017) UK

2012

Black and tan fantasy / In the hall of the mountain king / Jack the bear / Le sucrier velours / Daybreak express / Concerto for Cootie / Harlem air shaft / Prelude to a kiss / Sepia panorama / Ko-ko / Morning mood / Anitra's dance / The single petal of a rose / Kinda dukish - Rockin' in rhythm / Sunset and the mockingbird / Diminuendo and crescendo in blue.

Don SEBESKY
JOYFUL NOISE - A tribute to Duke Ellington
(CD RCA VICTOR / 63 552 2)

1999

Mood indigo / Creole love call / Chelsea bridge / Caravan / Warm valley / Take the Coltrane / Satin doll / Joyful noise suite : Glady - Sadly - Madly / Koko.

Joyful noise suite is composed by John Sebesky.

Helen SHAPIRO and Humphrey LYTTELTON
ECHOES OF THE DUKE
(LP CALLIGRAPH RECORDS / CLGLP 002) UK

November, 1984
Helen Shapiro (vocal), Humphrey Littelton (trumpet), John Barnes (baryton sax, bass calrinet, clarinet, flute), Randolph Colville (alto sax, clarinet), Pete Strange (trombone), Mick Pyne (piano), Paul Bridge (bass), Adrian Macintosh (drums)

Side 1 : Take the A train / I ain't got nothing but the blues / I got it bad and that ain't good / Cross a busy street / Just squeeze me / I let a song go out of my heart / It don't mean a thing.

Side 2 : Drop me off in Harlem / Pritti nitti / Solitude / Just a-sittin' and a-rockin' / Echoes of the Duke / Caravan.

Stanley SILVERSTONE
DUKE ELLINGTON'S TIMON OF ATHENS
Incidental music for Shakespeare's play
(CD VARESE SARABANDE / VSD 5466) USA

1993
Music adapted by Stanley Silverstone

Overture : Black and tan fantasy / Timon's theme / First banquet / Toasts / Dinner music : Bonding fo friendship / Dance : Skillipoop - The mooche / Compulsive giving : Creole love call - Timon's theme / Market crash / False friends : Banquet theme / Revolutionary march / Creditors : Draggin' blues / The senate : Second banquet / Soured for the second banquet : Creole love call / Entr'acte / Gold / Alcibiades camp : Ring dem bells / Revolutionary march / Poet and painter / Timon's theme / Final and curtain call : Revolutionary march - Timon's theme.

Joya SHERRILL
SINGS DUKE
(CD VERVE / 547 266 2)

1965

Mood indigo / Prelude to a kiss / I'm beginning to see the light / Sophisticated lady / Kissing bug / In a sentimental mood / Duke's place / I'm just a lucky so and so / Day dream / Things ain't what they used to be / Just squeeze me (but don't tease me) / A flower is a lonesome thing.

Nina SIMONE
SINGS ELLINGTON
(LP COLPIX RECORDS / CP 425) USA

1961

Side 1 : Do nothin' till you hear from me / I got it bad / Hey, Buddy Bolden / Merry mendings / Something to live for / You better know it.

Side 2 : I like the sunrise / Solitude / The gal from Joe's / Satin doll / It don't mean a thing.

Zoot SIMS
PASSION FLOWER
(CD PABLO / VICJ 41793) Japon

13 mai 1980

It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing) / In a mellow tone / I got it bad and that ain't good / I let a song go out of my heart / Black butterfly / Do nothing till you hear from me / Your love has faded / Bojangles / Passion flower.

SLAVIC SOUL PARTY
PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON'S FAR EAST SUITE
(CD ROPEADOPE / RAD 314)

2014

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

Carol SLOANE
SOPHISTICATED LADY
(LP AUDIOPHILE / ACD 195)

1977

Side 1 : Take the A train / I let a song go out of my heart - Do nothin' til you hear from me / Solitude / Satin doll / In a sentimental mood / It don't mean a thing.

Side 2 : Sophisticated lady / Mood indigo / Prelude to a kiss / Jump for joy / Come Sunday / Take the A train.

Carol SLOANE
SOPHISTICATED LADY
(CD ALL ART / ABCJ 241) Japan

1977

Same as previous

Carol SLOANE
DEAREST DUKE
(CD ARBORS RECORDS / ARCD 19350) USA

2007
With Ken Peplowski and Brad Hatfield

Sophisticated lady / Solitude / I let a song go out of my heart - Do nothin' till you hear from me / I didn't know about you / Serenade to sweden / Mood indigo / Rocks in my bed - I ain't got nothin' but the blues / In a sentimental mood - Prelude to a kiss / Day dream / I got it bad and that ain't good / Just a-sittin' and a-rockin' - All too soon / Just squeeze me (but don't tease me).

Martial SOLAL
PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON
(LP MUSICA / MUS 3005) France

1978

Side 1 : Sophisticated lady / In a sentimental mood / Who knows ? / Just squeeze me.

Side 2 : Solitude / I got it bad and that ain't good / Don't get around much anymore.

Martial SOLAL DODECABAND
PLAYS ELLINGTON
(CD DREYFUS JAZZ / FDM 36613 2) France

Paris - décembre 1997

Satin doll / Caravan / In a sentimental mood / It don't mean a thing / Take the A train / Medley : Cotton tail - Don't get around much anymore - Things ain't what they used to be - Take the A train - Prelude to a kiss - Sophisticated lady - I got it bad - Do nothing till you hear from me.

James SPAULDING
PLAYS THE LEGACY OF DUKE ELLINGTON
(CD STORYVILLE / 101 8423) Denmark

1976

Take the A train / In a sentimental mood / Come Sunday / Caravan / Love you madly / I'm just a lucky so and so / Sophisticatd lady / It don't mean a thing.

Terell STAFFORD
THIS SIDE OF STRAYHORN
(CD MAXJAZZ / 408)

2011

Raincheck / Smada / My little brown book / Lush life / Multicolored blue / U.M.G.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group) / Lana Turner / Day dream / Johnny come lately.

Ted STEELE
MOOD INDIGO - An album of Duke Ellington
(78 rpm x 5 DECCA / ALBUM NO. 179) USA

1940
Ted Steele and his Novatones

Mood indigo / Lost in meditation
Solitude / Prelude to a kiss
Sophisticated lady / Awful sad
I let a song go out of my heart / Love in my heart
In a sentimental mood / Azure.

Ted STEELE
MOOD INDIGO - Duke Ellington compositions
(LP 10" DECCA / DL 5192) USA

1940
Ted Steele and his Novatones

Same as previous without "Awful sad" and "Love in my heart"

Side 1 : Mood indigo / Lost in meditation / Solitude / Prelude to a kiss.

Side 2 : Sophisticated lady / Azure / I let a song go out of my heart / In a sentimental mood.

Grant STEWART
PLAYS THE MUSIC OF DUKE ELLINGTON
& BILLY STRAYHORN
(CD SHARP NINE RECORDS / CD 1044 2)

2009

Raincheck / Tonight I shall sleep / Angelica / I let a song go out of my heart / It don't mean a thing / Something to live for / The star crossed lovers / The feeling of jazz.

Sonny STITT
BLUES FOR DUKE
(LP MUSE RECORDS / MR 5129)

1975

Side 1 : C jam blues / I got it bad and that ain't good / Perdido.

Side 2 : Blues for Duke / Don't get around much anymore / Satin doll.

Sonny STITT
SONNY STITT WITH STRINGS - A tribute to Duke Ellington
(LP CATALYST / CAT 7620) USA

1977

Side 1 : Take the A train / Prelude to a kiss / It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing / Cotton tail.

Side 2 : In a sentimental mood / In a mellow tone / Jeep's blues.

STOCKHOLM SWING ALL STARS
PLAY DUKE ELLINGTON
(CD IMOGENA RECORDS / IGCD 155)

2009

The mooche / In a mellow tone / Do nothing 'till you hear from me / Main stem / Mood indigo / Kinda dukish / Jeep's blues / It don't mean a thing / Lotus blossom.

STOCKHOLM SWING ALL STARS
IN THE SPIRIT OF DUKE ELLINGTON
(CD IMOGENA RECORDS / IGCD 220)

2018

Don't get around much anymore / Satin doll / Warm / I'm beginning to see the light / On the backside / Perdido / Solitude / Johnny come lately / Blues I oktaver / Isfahan / Jubilee stomp.

Warm, On the backside and Blues I oktaver are not Ellington tunes.

Les STRAND
PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON (On the Hammond organ)
(LP FANTASY / 3256) USA

1958

Side 1 : I got it bad and that ain't good / Little Posey / Prelude to a kiss / Cottontail / Black butterfly / Morning glory.

Side 2 : I'm beginning to see the light / Mood indigo / I let a song go out of my heart / Carnegie blues / Caravan / T.T. on toast / Just a-sittin' and a-rockin'.

SUN RA
ELLINGTONIA Volume 1 - Compilation
(Digital MP3 / BANDCAMP)

1951 to 1987

Duke's place (C jam blues) / Sophisticated lady / Mood indigo / Caravan / Lightnin' / Slippery horn / Prelude to a kiss / East St. Louis toodle-Oo / It don't mean a thing / Day dream / Drop me off in Harlem / Stompy Jones.

SUN RA
ELLINGTONIA Volume 2 - Compilation
(Digital MP3 / BANDCAMP)

1950s to 1987

Flamingo (piano) / Flamingo (Arkestra) / Perdido / Caravan / In my solitude / In a sentimental mood / Happy as the day is long / Sophisticated lady / Prelude to a kiss / Satin doll / Take the A train (solo piano) / Take the A train (vocal version).

Happy as the day is long and Flamingo are an not Ellington tunes.

SUN RA
DUKE ELLINGTON'S SOUND OF SPACE
(CD SQUATTY ROO / SR 0230) USA

The Bottom Line, New York - February 17, 1987

Perdido / Drum solo - Group improvisaton - Ra's entrance / East St. Louis toodle-Oo / Satin doll / Sophisticated lady.

Neil SWAINSON (see Fraser McPHERSON)

SWING LIMITED CORPORATION
THE SLC STORY
(CD NOCTURNE/ NTCD 107 ) France

1970 to 1980

Take the A train / Mood indigo / The jeep is jumpin' / Come Sunday / Blow by blow / Passion flower / Scratchin' the surface / Come Sunday - Praise God / Satin doll / A child is born / Tickle toe / East St-Louis toodle-Oo / Milestones / New ballad / Slide's suite part III / Take the A train.

A child is born, Tickle toe, Milestones, New ballad and Slide's suite part III are not Duke Ellington tunes.