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Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: Duke Ellington's Treasury Shows - Vol. 21
by Chris Mosey
This volume of the Duke Ellington Treasury Shows commemorates the death on July 20 1946 of Joe “Tricky Sam" Nanton, one of the founding fathers of the band's early “jungle" sound that helped make its name at the Cotton Club. Nanton was the first musician to die with Ellington and the leader--a highly superstitious man--took it ...
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: Rotterdam 1969
by Chris Mosey
Right up to the end Duke Ellington maintained an ability to surprise lesser mortals with his impish wit. In 1969 he visited the White House to celebrate his 70th birthday and kissed President Richard Nixon on the cheek four times. When Nixon asked why four times, Ellington replied, “One for each cheek." Tricky ...
The Treasury Shows, Vol 20
By Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: CD1: Take The A Train; A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing; Main Stem; A Ghost Of A Chance; In A Jam; I’m Just A Lucky So And So; Stomp, Look And Listen; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Things Ain’t What They Used To Be; Summertime; Jack The Bear; Sentimental Lady; In A Mellotone; Rockin’ In Rhythm.
CD2: Take The A Train; Mood To Be Wooed; Johnny Come Lately; They Say It’s Wonderful; Strange Love; Honeysuckle Rose; Don’t Take Your Love From Me; Blue On The Double; Take The A Train; Come Sunday; Light; Lover Man; Riff Staccato; Mood Indigo; Riff ‘N’ Drill; Johnny Come Lately; Emancipation Celebration; Go Away Blues; Don’t Get Around Much Anymore; Things Ain’t What They Used To Be.
The Treasury Shows, Volume 19
By Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Take The A Train; Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin'; 9:20 Special; I Can't
Get Started; Flamingo; Fancy Dan; Diminuendo in Blue; Transblucency;
Crescendo In Blue; Someone; Three Cent Stomp; I'm Just A Lucky So-
And-So; Barzallai Lew; The C Jam Blues; Do Nothin' Till You Hear From
Me; Subtle Slough; Take The A Train.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Vol 20
by Chris Mosey
What makes this album stand out among the welter of Treasury Show releases is that most of the tracks feature Oscar Pettiford on bass. Duke Ellington hired many excellent bass players but only two who were great. The first was Jimmy Blanton. In the short time he was with the band--from 1939-1941--he transformed ...
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Volume 19
by Chris Mosey
In 1946 the uneasy truce between industry and organized labor in the U.S.A which had persisted for the duration of World War Two came to an abrupt end. Coal miners and railroad workers came out on strike and jazz bands were banned by the American Federation of Musicians under its autocratic boss James C. Petrillo from ...
The Treasury Shows, Volume 18
By Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: CD1: Jam-A-Ditty; Blue Is The Night; Passion Flower; Take The A Train;
Mood To Be Wooed; Caravan; Bond Promo; Don’t Take Your Love From Me;
Take The A Train; The Blues; Bond Promo; Sono; One O’Clock Jump; I’m
Just A Lucky So And So; Riff Staccato; Just A-Sittin’And A-Rockin’;
Rockabye River; Jumping Frog Jump; Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me;
Johnny Come Lately; Poinciana; On The Alamo; Three Cent Stomp; I
Didn’t Know About You.
CD2: Take The A Train; Stompy Jones; Moon Mist; Bond Promo; Just A-
Sittin’ And A-Rockin’; I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me;
Sophisticate Lady; Bond Promo; Jennie: I’m Just A Lucky So And So;
Come Sunday; Light; Bond Promo; We’ll Be Together Again; Hollywood
Hangover; Subtle Slough; Bond Promo; Perdido; Time Alone Will Tell;
San Fernando Valley; Stomp, Look And Listen; Concerto For Cootie; Long
Ago And Far Away; Someone; Suddenly It Jumped; Things Ain’t What They
Used To Be.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows, Volume 18
by Chris Mosey
As Duke Ellington leads his band into the opening bars of “Take The A Train," a mighty roar goes up from the radio audience. The moment comes four tracks into the first CD of this double Storyville release, after a somewhat shaky start. With it there's a marvellous feeling of being back in ...
The Treasury Shows Vol. 17
By Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Label: Storyville Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Tracks: CD1: Take The “A” Train; Way Low; C-Jam Blues; The Kissing
Bug; Just A- Sittin’ And A-Rockin’; Caldonia; Fancy Dan; I’m Just A
Lucky So And So; The Last Time I Saw You; On The Atchinson, Topeka And
Santa Fe; If I Loved You; I Can’t Begin To Tell You; The Wonder Of
You; Riff ’n’ Drill And Close; Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me; It
Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing;
Things Ain’t What They Used To Be; San Fernando Valley; Suddenly It
Jumped; Summertime (incomplete); On The Alamo.
CD2: Caravan; Rugged Romeo; Sono; Air Conditioned Jungle; Circe;
Rhapsoditty; Fugueaditty; Jam-A-Ditty; Magenta Haze; Diminuendo In
Blue, Transblucency, Crescendo In Blue; Pitter Panther Patter; The
Surburbanite; Boy Meets Horn; Jump For Joy; Three Cent Stomp
(incomplete); Solid Old Man; How Blue The Night; Ring Dem Bells.
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra: The Treasury Shows Vol. 17
by Chris Mosey
Don Lowe's exultant cry, “Here he is, and in person, the Duke himself!" kicks off the 17th of the Duke Ellington Treasury Show radio broadcasts, part of a massive reissue project by the Danish Storyville label. Anxious to show how hip, perhaps even hep, he is, the American Broadcasting Corporation announcer goes on ...
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