The Best of Duke Ellington: 1932-1939

Duke Ellington - The Best of Duke Ellington: 1932-1939

The Best of Duke Ellington: 1932-1939
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Artist: Duke Ellington
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import
CD Release Date: 2008-07-22
Music Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  2. Lazy Rhapsody
  3. Blue Tune
  4. Baby, When You Ain't There
  5. St. Louis Blues
  6. Creole Love Call [#]
  7. Blue Harlem
  8. The Sheik of Araby
  9. Best Wishes
  10. Blue Ramble
  11. Clouds in My Heart
  12. Blue Mood
  13. Ducky Wucky
  14. Jazz Cocktail
  15. Lightnin'
  16. Swing Low
  17. Slippery Horn
  18. Drop Me off in Harlem
  19. Happy as the Day Is Long
  20. Get Yourself a New Broom
  21. Bundle of Blues
  22. Sophisticated Lady
  23. Jive Stomp
  24. Harlem Speaks
  25. Daybreak Express
Music CD 2
  1. Ebony Rhapsody [#]
  2. Ebony Rhapsody, Pt. 2
  3. Solitude
  4. Saddest Tale
  5. Moonlight Fiesta
  6. In a Sentimental Mood
  7. Showboat Shuffle
  8. Merry-Go-Round
  9. Reminiscing in Tempo
  10. I Don't Know Why I Love You So
  11. Isn't Love the Strangest Thing?
  12. Clarinet Lament
  13. Echoes of Harlem
  14. Trumpet in Spades
  15. Yearning for Love
  16. In a Jam
  17. Exposition Swing
  18. Uptown Downbeat
  19. Scattin' at the Cotton Club
  20. Black Butterfly
Music CD 3
  1. The New Birmingham Breakdown
  2. The New East St. Louis Toodle-O
  3. Caravan
  4. Azure
  5. Chatterbox
  6. Diminuendo in Blue
  7. Crescendo in Blue
  8. Harmony in Harlem
  9. Dusk on the Desert
  10. Steppin' into Swing Society
  11. Prologue to Black and Tan Fantasy
  12. The New Black and Tan Fantasy
  13. Ridin' on a Blue Note
  14. Lost in Meditation
  15. The Gal from Joe's
  16. Scrounch
  17. I Let a Song Go out of My Heart
  18. Braggin' in Brass
  19. Carnival in Caroline
  20. I'm Slappin' Seventh Avenue
  21. Dinah's in a Jam
  22. Rose of the Rio Grande
  23. Pyramid
  24. A Gypsy Without a Song
  25. The Stevedore's Serenade
Music CD 4
  1. Prelude to a Kiss
  2. Hip Chic
  3. Buffet Flat
  4. Jazz Potpourri
  5. TT on Toast
  6. Battle of Swing
  7. Blue Light
  8. Old King Dooji
  9. Boy Meets Horn
  10. Slap Happy
  11. Pussy Willow
  12. Suble Lament
  13. Schmorgasbord and Schnapps
  14. Portrait of the Lion
  15. (I Want) Something to Live For
  16. Solid Old Man
  17. Way Low
  18. Serenade to Sweden
  19. Bouncing Bouyancy
  20. The Sergeant Was Shy
  21. Grievin'
  22. I Never Felt This Way Before
  23. Tootin' Through the Roof
  24. Killin' Myself
  25. Country Gal

Music reviews of The Best of Duke Ellington: 1932-1939

Music Review: MISSING ELLINGTONIA BACK IN CIRCULATION
Rating: 5 Stars

For all Ellington admirers the release of this CD box set is a major event - and at this price an incredible "gift" too. However many CD's of Duke's early and late music one might own there was always one huge gap - his 30's period. And although Sony may have lavished great care in reissuing nearly all his later concept albums (with extra tracks and great research) where the 30's were concerned they've never offered much more than dribs and drabs from their huge catalogue of Columbia recordings he made (only for them) from 1932-39.

Many of us knew what we were missing. In the 70's French CBS issued ALL his Columbia 78's on 15 double LP's. But the limitations of vinyl - and skipping alternate tracks - made fully enjoying these gems a frustrating process. Now with this huge CD release we can understand why so many experts consider he led an even better "swinging band" just prior to making his early 40's Victor classics - which are so small in number eventually one knows every note far too well.

Whereas this box contains a cornucopia of much less familiar but just as important treasures. The chief bonus of course is to hear all this rare music in the clarity of digital sound. And to realize the Columbia engineers did Ellington a big favor in NOT highlighting his individual solists or sections. Providing a constant sensation this band was a justly proud homogenious unit (hand-picked by Duke). Which also reflects the band member's involvement in helping Duke create these complex perfectly executed arrangements. Bar his written composition "Reminiscing in Tempo" none of these 30's tunes sound repetitive or mechanical. With constantly varying patterns between his "star" solists and super-smooth ensemble background work today's listeners can only sit back and marvel at the seemingly effortless intricacy of each one of these 3-minute masterpeices.

Based on the fast tracks on Disc 3 & 4 was this the greatest swing band of them all? The litle known "Bouncing Buoyancy" being a typical example of their abiity to suggest perpetual motion. In this case propelled by the greatest sax section in the history of jazz. Due to the time limitations of 78 shellac this and many other numbers seem to come to a rather abrupt close. But to be left wanting more is in not criticism. Just the reverse.

What more can one ask for? Well, to be honest a few more similar CD's from Sony/BMG. Victor has only 3 tracks in this box - from the 15 they recorded in 33/34. My Italian catalogue shows at least 19 equally valuable Columbia rarities - for those buffs who need to hear every Johnny Hodges solo in digital sound. Victor recordings with a V.

Dinah V
Bugle Call Rag V
Rose Room
Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
Down a Carolina Lane
Stormy Weather
In the shade of the Old Apple Tree
Rude Interlude
Dallas Doings
Dear Old Southland
Delta Serenade V
Stompy Jones V
Blue Feeling V
Love and Live Tonight V
Moonglow
Sump'n Bout Rhythm
Tough Trucking
Indigo Echoes
Accent on Youth
No Greater Love
A Blues Serenade
Lambeth Walk
Mighty Like the Blues
Little Posey
Weely

25 top draw Duke - with no fillers. No vocals either - as all Ivie Anderson's were issued on 2 English HEP CD's. But it would be sad not to include her infectious "Alabamy Home" - to hear the Ellington sax section "buzzing" at its insouciant best.

It's true this box's sleeve notes don't include the minutia one finds on most CD re-issues. But for the newly intrigued they could do no better than buy Mark Tucker's book "The Duke Ellington Reader" to discover what was being written about Duke - at the same time his band was constantly evolving.

Aptly this collection closes with the miraculous "Country Girl". His greatest ever recording? As his music was always descriptive the title suggests he and the band are saying more about the opposite sex in 3 minutes than any classical composer could - with 30 minutes and a full orchestra at his disposal.

In conclusion these are incredibly welcome digital transfers from his great 30's Columbia years. Hopefully Sony will now release many more. For instance a carefully selected "Best of the Small Groups". Cootie's "Delta Mood" and Johnny's "Wanderlust" the cream of the crop. But of course a thousand other fans will beg to differ!

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