Label: Definitive Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Mooche; Sepia Panorama; Ko-Ko; There Shall Be No Night; Pussy Willow; Chatter Box ; Mood Indigo; Harlem Air Shaft; Ferryboat Serenade; Warm Valley; Stompy Jones; Chloe; Bojangles; On The Air; Rumpus In Richmond; Chaser; Sidewalks Of New York; Flaming Sword; Never No Lament; Caravan; Clarinet Lament; Slap Happy; Fanfare; Sepia Panorama; Boy Meets Horn; Way Down Younder In New Orleans; Oh Babe! Maybe Someday; Five O'clock Whistle; Rockin ' N 'Rhythm; Sophisticated Lady; Cotton Tail; Whispering Grass; Conga Brava; I Never Felt This Way Before; Chaser; Across The Track Blues; Honeysucle Rose; Wham!; Star Dust; Rose Of The Rio Grande; St. Louis Blues; Warm Valley; God Bless America; It's Glory; The Sheik Of Araby; Call Of The Canyon.

Album

The Essential Duke Ellington

By Duke Ellington

Label: Sony Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: East St. Louis Toodle-Oo: Black and Tan Fantasy; Take It Easy; Hot and Bothered; The Mooche; Rockin' in Rhythm; Creole Rhapsody; It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing); Creole Love Call; Sophisticated Lady; Drop Me Off in Harlem; In a Sentimental Mood; Back Room Romp; Clouds in My Heart; Echoes of Harlem; Caravan; Blue Reverie; Diminuendo in Blue; Crescendo in Blue; I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart; Pyramid; Prelude to a Kiss; Tired Socks; Mood Indigo; Ko Ko; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; Cotton Tail; Take the A Train; Harlem Air-Shaft; Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear From Me; Satin Doll; Perdido; Come Sunday; Jeep's Blues; Black Beauty; Arabesque Cookie.

Album

Jazz Shots From The East Coast, Vol. 1

By Bill Evans

Label: EFORFILMS
Released: 2006
Track listing: Up With The Lark; I Loves You Porgy; Darn That Dream; Ahmad's Blues; My Old Flame; Blue Monk; Monk's Dream; Place St. Henri; Mood Indigo; Sophisticated Lady; Take the A Train; Tagore; Passin' Thru; Mack the Knife; Bonus Tracks; Yours Is My Heart Alone; Untitled Blues;

Album

Volume 10

By Duke Ellington

Label: Unidisc Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Do Wah Nanny; Silver City; Eyebrows and Beard; She Looks So Fine; Roweena; The Bowery; 22nd Century; Do Wah Nanny, Pt. 2.

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Article: Big Jazz Nerd

Who Was Duke's Sophisticated Lady?

by AAJ Staff
May 31, 2006

Dear Big Jazz Nerd, Whom was Duke Ellington referring to when he wrote “Sophisticated Lady"? Amy Alexander Houston, Texas Amy, A good guess would be his mom, Daisy Kennedy Ellington. History tells us that she was a beautiful, intelligent, educated woman who doted on her son, Edward Kennedy ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Duke Ellington: The Piano Player, The Treasury Shows, The Complete Gus Wildi Recordings

by George Kanzler
May 28, 2006

Duke Ellington The Piano Player Storyville 2005 Duke Ellington The Treasury Shows Storyville 2005 Duke Ellington The Complete Gus Wildi Recordings Lone Hill Jazz 2006

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Article: Album Review

Duke Ellington: The Essential Duke Ellington

Read "The Essential Duke Ellington" reviewed by Ken Dryden

by Ken Dryden
May 25, 2006

Anytime the term “essential" is utilized in a compilation of an artist's work, critics are ready to second-guess it. But this two-CD set issued by Columbia/Legacy, now a part of the parent company Sony-BMG, represents a good cross-section of Duke Ellington's studio recordings and even licenses a few tracks from other companies to fill some gaps, ...