Duke Ellington – Anniversary - 13 Volumes Box Set

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Label:	Musisoft – MJCD 1300, Musisoft – CC 811
Series:	Masters Of Jazz (2)
Format:	13 x CD, Compilation
Country:	France
Released:	1999
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Swing

Tracklist

	Disk 01 - Ballads / MJCD 1301	(1:00:29)
1-01	All Too Soon	3:22
1-02	I Got it Bad (and That Ain't Good)	3:21
1-03	Solitude	3:04
1-04	Mood Indigo	2:48
1-05	Dusk	3:21
1-06	After All	3:22
1-07	Moon Mist	3:02
1-08	Finesse	2:43
1-09	Serenade to Sweden	3:26
1-10	Black Butterfly	2:43
1-11	Lost in Meditation	2:59
1-12	Blue Light	2:47
1-13	Please Forgive Me	3:04
1-14	Prelude to a Kiss	3:00
1-15	Mighty Like the Blues	2:39
1-16	I Never Felt That Way Before	3:02
1-17	You Never Know the Things You Miss	1:43
1-18	In A Sentimental Mood	3:02
1-19	A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing	3:20
1-20	Violet Blue	3:10
	Disk 02 - Blues / MJCD 1302	(1:00:26)
2-01	Things Ain't What They Used to Be	3:20
2-02	Across the Track Blues	3:01
2-03	C Jam Blues	2:42
2-04	Blues	2:47
2-05	Main Stem	2:51
2-06	Blues	3:00
2-07	Yellow Dog Blues	2:55
2-08	Blues With a Feeling	3:15
2-09	Saratoga Swing	2:49
2-10	Beggar's Blues	3:20
2-11	Sweet Chariot	2:57
2-12	Bundle of Blues	3:13
2-13	Blue Feeling	3:15
2-14	Indigo Echoes	2:52
2-15	Jeep's Blue	2:57
2-16	Mobile Blues	2:33
2-17	Subtle Lament	3:05
2-18	Beale Street Blues	2:55
2-19	Memphis Blues	3:03
2-20	Royal Garden Blues	3:24
	Disk 03 - Composer / MJCD 1303	(1:15:41)
3-01	Ko Ko	2:48
3-02	Concerto for Cootie	3:25
3-03	Sepia Panorama	5:13
3-04	Tootin' Through the Roof	2:54
3-05	Battle of Swing	2:58
3-06	I Let a Song go Out of my Heart	3:10
3-07	Creole Rhapsody	8:37
3-08	Slippery Horn	3:07
3-09	Daybreak Express	2:57
3-10	Saddest Tale	3:19
3-11	Showboat Shuffle	3:04
3-12	Braggin' in Brass	2:46
3-13	Dimineundo in Blue, Transblucency, Crescendo in Blue	9:52
3-14	Blue Serge	3:24
3-15	In a Mellow Tone	3:20
3-16	Black Brown and Beige (Excerpts Of) Work Song-Come Sunday	9:07
3-17	Happy Go Lucky Local	5:29
	Disk 04 - Dance / MJCD 1304	(1:02:46)
4-01	Caravan	2:52
4-02	Conga Brava	2:59
4-03	Moonlight Fiesta [Porto-Rican Chaos]	2:56
4-04	Snake Hip Dance	2:46
4-05	Breakfast Dance	3:08
4-06	Maori (A Samoan Dance)	3:07
4-07	Admiration	3:13
4-08	That Lindy Hop	2:57
4-09	Truckin'	3:01
4-10	Skrontch	2:46
4-11	Swingtime in Honolulu	2:57
4-12	I'm Slappin' Seventh Avenue (With the Sole of My Shoe)	2:40
4-13	Hip Chic	2:59
4-14	Lambeth Walk	2:31
4-15	Empty Ballroom Blues	2:27
4-16	Flaming Sword	3:11
4-17	Bakiff	4:24
4-18	Moon Over Cuba	3:15
4-19	Black Brown and Beige, (Excerpt Of) Three Dances	4:38
4-20	Liberian Suite, (Dance No. 3)	3:48
	Disk 05 - Friends / MJCD 1305	(1:09:52)
5-01	Hot and Bothered with Lonnie Johnson	3:19
5-02	Accordion Joe with Joe Cornell	3:01
5-03	Three Little Words with The Rhythm Boys	3:07
5-04	St. Louis Blues with Bing Crosby	4:32
5-05	Diga Diga Doo with The Mills Brothers	4:32
5-06	I Can't Give You Anything But Love with Ethel Waters	3:07
5-07	My Old Flame with Mae West	3:18
5-08	Blues (Big City Blues) with Billie Holiday	2:28
5-09	I Cover the Waterfront with Billie Holiday	3:04
5-10	Tonight I Shall Sleep (With a Smile on My Face) with Tommy Dorsey	3:02
5-11	I Can't Believe That You are in Love With me with Anita O'Day	5:29
5-12	Metronome All-Out with Metronome All Star Band	4:19
5-13	Long, Long Journey with Louis Armstrong	4:35
5-14	Honeysuckle Rose with Django Reinhardt	3:41
5-15	I Fell and Broke My Heart with Woody Herman	2:42
5-16	Jazz Cocktail with Benny Carter	3:14
5-17	Blue Skies with Mary Lou Williams	3:13
5-18	Hollywood Hangover with Buck Clayton	3:42
5-19	My Honey's Lovin' Arms with Dick Vance	3:12
5-20	The C Jam Blues with Woody Herman	3:28
	Disk 06 - Jungle / MJCD 1306	(1:04:57)
6-01	Prologue to Black and Tan Fantasy	2:38
6-02	New Black and Tan Fantasy	2:42
6-03	Mooche	3:15
6-04	Saturday Night Function	3:09
6-05	Mississippi Moan	3:29
6-06	Jungle Jamboree	3:05
6-07	Haunted Nights	3:19
6-08	Jungle Nights in Harlem	2:56
6-09	Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie	3:01
6-10	Jungle Blues	3:04
6-11	Echoes of the Jungle	3:30
6-12	Baby, When You Ain't There	2:47
6-13	Dear Old Southland	3:35
6-14	New East St. Louis Toodle-Oo	3:05
6-15	Delta Mood	2:49
6-16	Dooji Wooji	2:59
6-17	Way Low	4:07
6-18	Gathering in a Clearing	3:11
6-19	Liberian Suite - Excerpt Dance No 5	5:12
6-20	Air-Conditioned Jungle	2:54
	Disk 07 - Ladies / MJCD 1307	(1:13:30)
7-01	Sophisticated Lady	2:53
7-02	Dinah Lou	2:26
7-03	Lady Who Couldn't be Kissed	2:45
7-04	Gal from Joe's	3:00
7-05	Dinah's in a Jam	2:52
7-06	Lady in Blue	2:56
7-07	Country Gal	3:00
7-08	Warm Valley	3:15
7-09	Chloe	3:27
7-10	John Hardy's Wife	3:31
7-11	Clementine	2:58
7-12	Brown-Skin Gal (In the Calico Gown)	3:13
7-13	Sentimental Lady (I Didn't Know About You)	3:03
7-14	Blue Belles of Harlem	5:23
7-15	Lily Belle	3:00
7-16	Lady of the Lavender Mist	3:18
7-17	Women (They'll Get You)	3:18
7-18	Brown Betty	5:51
7-19	The Tattooed Bride	13:11
	Disk 08 - New York / MJCD 1308	(1:01:44)
8-01	Harlem Air Shaft	3:00
8-02	Sidewalks of New York	3:15
8-03	Uptown Downbeat	3:26
8-04	Harlem River Quiver (Brown Berries)	2:49
8-05	Harlemania	3:00
8-06	Harlem Flat Blues	3:07
8-07	Wall Street Wail	2:59
8-08	Blue Harlem	2:55
8-09	Drop Me off in Harlem	3:00
8-10	Harlem Speaks	3:08
8-11	It Was a Sad Night in Harlem	3:09
8-12	Scattin' at the Kit Kat	2:46
8-13	Sugar Hill Shim Sham	2:37
8-14	Harmony in Harlem	3:11
8-15	Boys from Harlem	2:19
8-16	Cotton Club Stomp	2:51
8-17	Carnegie Blues	2:55
8-18	Park at 106th	2:27
8-19	New York City Blues	3:12
8-20	Manhattan Murals	5:28
	Disk 09 - Pianist / MJCD 1309	(1:12:53)
9-01	Black Beauty	3:04
9-02	A Swampy River	2:52
9-03	Fast and Furious (Lot’s O’ Fingers)	2:52
9-04	Mood Indigo/Solitude	3:09
9-05	Sophisticated Lady/In a Sentimental Mood	3:08
9-06	Swing Baby Swing (Love in My Heart)	2:37
9-07	Informal Blues	2:45
9-08	Mr. J.B. Blues	3:06
9-09	Dear Old Southland	3:20
9-10	Solitude	3:32
9-11	Frankie and Johnny	2:41
9-12	Jumpin' Room Only	2:37
9-13	Dancers in Love	2:23
9-14	Minor Goes Muggin'	3:05
9-15	Tonk	2:49
9-16	Drawing Room Blues	3:41
9-17	There Was Nobody Looking	3:10
9-18	New York City Blues	4:54
9-19	Clothed Woman	4:40
9-20	New World A-Comin'	12:14
	Disk 10 - Portraits / MJCD 1310	(1:06:49)
10-01	Black Beauty (Portrait of Florence Mills)	2:54
10-02	Gypsy Without a Song	3:02
10-03	Old King Dooji	2:35
10-04	Portrait of the Lion	2:32
10-05	Little Posey	2:43
10-06	Weely (Portrait of Billy Strayhorn)	3:02
10-07	Jack the Bear	3:12
10-08	Bojangles	2:54
10-09	Portrait of Bert Williams	3:21
10-10	Menelik: The Lion of Judah	3:21
10-11	Poor Bubber	3:23
10-12	Fancy Dan	4:12
10-13	Jennie	2:21
10-14	Unbooted Character	3:28
10-15	Hearsay or Orson Welles	5:00
10-16	Beautiful Indians, Pt. 1: Hiawatha	2:43
10-17	Beautiful Indians, Pt. 2: Minnehaha	2:58
10-18	Golden Feather	2:51
10-19	Golden Cress	3:01
10-20	Frankie and Johnny	7:14
	Disk 11 - Soloists / MJCD 1311	(1:04:15)
11-01	Sonny Greer - Liberian Suite: Dance No 5	3:10
11-02	Bubber Miley - Doin' the Voom Voom	3:12
11-03	Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton - Black and Tan Fantasy	2:49
11-04	Harry Carney – Frustration	2:50
11-05	Barney Bigard - Clarinet Lament (Barney's Concerto)	3:13
11-06	Johnny Hodges - Mood to be Wooed	4:26
11-07	Cootie Williams - Echoes of Harlem (Cootie's Concerto)	3:06
11-08	Lawrence Brown - Rose of the Rio Grande	3:04
11-09	Rex Stewart - Morning Glory	3:21
11-10	Harold Baker - Ain't Misbehavin'	3:41
11-11	Billy Strayhorn - Passion Flower	3:36
11-12	Jimmy Blanton - Pitter Panther Patter	3:04
11-13	Ben Webster- Stardust	4:19
11-14	Ray Nance - Take the "A" Train	2:58
11-15	Jimmy Hamilton - Flippant Flurry	2:53
11-16	Taft Jordan - Rugged Romeo	3:04
11-17	Al Sears – The Suburbanite	2:31
11-18	Oscar Pettiford - Tip Toe Topic	2:04
11-19	Tyree Glenn - Sultry Serenade	3:07
11-20	Taft Jordan, Harold Baker, Ray Nance, Francis Williams, Cat Anderson - Blue Skies [Trumpet No End]	2:32
	Disk 12 - Swing / MJCD 1312	(1:01:17)
12-01	Cotton Tail	3:13
12-02	It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)	3:11
12-03	Jubilee Stomp	2:38
12-04	Double Check Stomp	2:56
12-05	Ring Dem Bells	2:57
12-06	Lightnin'	3:10
12-07	Jive Stomp	2:48
12-08	Stompy Jones	3:05
12-09	In a Jam	3:01
12-10	Exposition Swing	3:12
12-11	Chatterbox	2:49
12-12	Buffet Flat	2:27
12-13	Slap Happy	2:48
12-14	Jazz Potpourri	3:10
12-15	Riding on a Blue Note	3:58
12-16	Squaty Roo	2:26
12-17	Bli-Blip	3:07
12-18	Rockin' in Rhythm	3:55
12-19	Stomp, Look and Listen	3:23
12-20	I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me	2:53
	Disk 13 - Vocals / MJCD 1313	(59:42)
13-01	Adelaide Hall - Blues, I Love to Sing	3:13
13-02	Sonny Greer - Sloppy Joe	3:17
13-03	Cootie Williams - She's Gone	3:05
13-04	Ivie Anderson - Troubled Waters	3:33
13-05	Ivie Anderson, Harry Carney, Hayes Alvis, Rex Stewart - I've Got to be a Rug Cutter	2:36
13-06	Ivie Anderson - I'm Checkin' Out, Go'om Bye	2:30
13-07	Jean Eldridge - Something to Live For	2:49
13-08	Herb Jeffries - Jump for Joy	2:54
13-09	Ivie Anderson - Rocks in my Bed	3:09
13-10	Ray Nance - Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)	3:22
13-11	Betty Roché - Go Away Blues	2:05
13-12	Joya Sherrill - Everything But You	3:03
13-13	Maria Cole, Joya Sherrill, Kay Davis - It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)	3:03
13-14	Maria Cole - I Don't Mind	3:08
13-15	Kay Davis, Joya Sherrill, Maria Cole, Al Hibbler - Solitude	3:06
13-16	Marion Cox - St. Louis Blues	3:00
13-17	Dolores Parker - Once Upon a Dream	3:01
13-18	Al Hibbler - Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me	3:07
13-19	Kay Davis - On a Turquoise Cloud	3:24
13-20	I've Got to Be a Rug Cutter	2:12

Companies, etc.

Distributed By – Disques Concord

Notes

Artistic Director : Claude Carrière
Produced by : Noël Hervé (for Musisoft)
Special Thanks to : Jean Portier
English Version : Martin Davies
Transfers & Mastering : Christophe Hénault (studio Dante)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 3356571130026

Reviews

pp_ Nov 19, 2018
This 13 disc box set compiles 260 tracks covering three decades of his Duke Ellingtons recording career. Although recodring dates range from 1927 to 1948, the main focus here is clearly on Ellington's 40's output.

Considering that this box set was sourced from 78s, sound quality is overall very nice. Luckily clean copies were used for tranfers. There's not really clicks or pops. Apart from some surface noise, there's really very little room for complaint. However mastering of this box set may divide opinions. It's clear that these tracks are needle drops. There is no doubt that the sound could be more crisp or detailed. I'm sure that there's more hi-fi sounding alternatives available of most of these recordings. Fortunately this box set wasn't botched with bad noise reduction, excessive compression or otherwise bad mastering. This box set is definitely a worthwhile alternative.

Packaging is ok. Each CD is packed in 8 panel digipack with liner notes (French & English), track listing, recording details and personnel details. Accuracy of personnel details varies greatly. Sometimes every musician is listed while other times only soloists are mentioned.

I find presentation of this box set mildly annoying. The material on compilation is divided thematically on different discs. Each of the discs is supposed to follow some kind of theme (e.g. ballads, blues, jungle etc.). In reality these themes are rather loose. Most of these song would have fit under various of these themes, so the discs aren't vastly different. This box set could have benefitted greatly from a different kind of presentation (e.g. chronological order).