DUKE ELLINGTON - ALL THE HITS AND MORE 1927-54 - It's a comprehensive overview of his most successful output during a primary era of his career Duke Ellington was one of the most important and influential figures in the entire history of jazz, as pianist, bandleader, composer and innovator, his career spanning half century as the genre evolved from the early days of electric recording. However, while critics and commentators focus on his over-arching significance as a giant of the medium, it's easy to forget that he was a genius at composing tune and songs for the medium of the 3-minute 78rpm single, and during the first three decades of his career before rock 'n' roll changed the pop landscape irrevocably, he had more than 70 records that were credited as chart hits. This great-value 4-CD set comprised all those 77 recordings which are listed in recognised sources as hits, plus another 20 or so which are regarded as significant compositions which became standards, or were hits for other artists. It includes his No. 1s with "Three Little Words", "Cocktails For Two", "I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart", and the Billboard R&B No. 1s "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", "Sentimental Lady", "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" and "Main Stem", along with classics like "Mood Indigo", "Sophisticated Lady", "Moon Glow", "Solitude", "Caravan", "Take The 'A' Train" and "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good". It's a comprehensive overview of his most successful output during a primary era of his career, and a great showcase for the artistry which made the Duke such a revered and iconic personality.
15 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
16 Creole Rhapsody (New Version)
17 Rose Room (In Sunny Roseland)
18 Moon Over Dixie
19 Best Wishes
20 Blue Ramble
21 Drop Me Off in Harlem
22 Sophisticated Lady
23 Stormy Weather
- Disc 2 -
1 I'm Satisfied
2 In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
3 Daybreak Express
4 Cocktails for Two
5 Moon Glow
6 Solitude
7 Saddest Tale
8 Merry Go Round
9 In a Sentimental Mood
10 Accent on Youth
11 Cotton
12 Isn't Love the Strangest Thing?
13 Love Is Like a Cigarette
14 Clarinet Lament
15 Echoes of Harlem
16 Oh Babe! Maybe Someday
17 Jazz Lips
18 Yearning for Love
19 The New East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
20 There's a Lull in My Life
21 Scattin' at the Kit Kat
22 Caravan
23 Azure
24 All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
- Disc 3 -
1 Diminuendo in Blue
2 Crescendo in Blue
3 Harmony in Harlem
4 If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do?)
5 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
6 The Gal from Joe's
7 La Do Doody Do
8 Lambeth Walk
9 Prelude to a Kiss
10 Something to Live for
11 You, You, Darlin'
12 Ko Ko
13 At a Dixie Roadside Diner
14 Sepia Panorama
15 Harlem Air Shaft
16 In a Mellotone
17 All Too Soon
18 Flamingo
19 Take the a Train
20 I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
21 Hayfoot, Strawfoot
22 Just A-Settin' and A-Rockin'
23 Rocks in My Bed
- Disc 4 -
1 Things Ain't What They Used to Be
2 Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Never No Lament)
3 The 'C' Jam Blues
4 Perdido
5 Bojangles
6 A Slip of the Lip (Can Sink a Ship)
7 Sentimental Lady
8 Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)
9 Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
10 Main Stem
11 My Little Brown Book
12 Someone
13 I Don't Mind
14 I'm Beginning to See the Light
15 Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know)
16 I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues
17 Come to Baby, Do
18 I'm Just a Lucky So-And-So
19 Don't Be So Mean to Baby (Cause Baby's So Good to You)
20 Satin Doll
21 Boo Dah
22 Skin Deep
DUKE ELLINGTON - ALL THE HITS AND MORE 1927-54 - It's a comprehensive overview of his most successful output during a primary era of his career Duke Ellington was one of the most important and influential figures in the entire history of jazz, as pianist, bandleader, composer and innovator, his career spanning half century as the genre evolved from the early days of electric recording. However, while critics and commentators focus on his over-arching significance as a giant of the medium, it's easy to forget that he was a genius at composing tune and songs for the medium of the 3-minute 78rpm single, and during the first three decades of his career before rock 'n' roll changed the pop landscape irrevocably, he had more than 70 records that were credited as chart hits. This great-value 4-CD set comprised all those 77 recordings which are listed in recognised sources as hits, plus another 20 or so which are regarded as significant compositions which became standards, or were hits for other artists. It includes his No. 1s with "Three Little Words", "Cocktails For Two", "I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart", and the Billboard R&B No. 1s "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", "Sentimental Lady", "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" and "Main Stem", along with classics like "Mood Indigo", "Sophisticated Lady", "Moon Glow", "Solitude", "Caravan", "Take The 'A' Train" and "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good". It's a comprehensive overview of his most successful output during a primary era of his career, and a great showcase for the artistry which made the Duke such a revered and iconic personality.
