Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Songtexte
Accordion Joe "C" Jam Blues Menelik: The Lion of Judah

1. Sultry Sunset
2. Happy-Go-Lucky Local, Part 2
3. Blue Skies (Trumpet No End)
4. Happy-Go-Lucky Local, Part 1
5. Hiawatha (The Beautiful Indians)
6. Flippant Flurry
7. Golden Feather
8. Minnehaha (The Beautiful Indians)
9. Overture to a Jam Session, Part 1
10. Overture to a Jam Session, Part 2
11. Jam-A-Ditty
12. Tulip or Turnip
13. It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream
14. Sophisticated Lady
15. On the Sunny Side of the Street
16. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
17. It Don't Mean a Thing
18. Hy'a Sue
19. Lady of the Lavender Mist
20. Women (They'll Get You)
21. Change My Ways
22. It's Monday Everyday
23. Golden Cress
24. Put Yourself in My Place, Baby

1. Put Yourself in My Place
2. Cowboy Rhumba
3. The Wildest Gal in Town
4. I Fell and Broke My Heart
5. Antidisestablishmentarianismist
6. Don’t Be So Mean to Baby
7. It’s Mad, Mad, Mad
8. You Gotta Crawl Before You Walk
9. Change My Ways
10. Kitty
11. Brown Penny
12. Change My Ways
13. Boogie Bop Blues
14. Sultry Serenade
15. Stomp, Look and Listen
16. Air Conditioned Jungle
17. Three Cent Stomp
18. Progressive Gavotte
19. He Makes Me Believe He’s Mine
20. Take Love Easy
21. I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me
22. How High The Moon
23. Singin’ in the Rain

Hop Head (1924–1928) (CD 1)

1. Choo Choo (Gotta Hurry Home)
2. Rainy Nights
3. I’m Gonna Hang Around My Sugar
4. Trombone Blues
5. Georgia Grind
6. Parlor Social Stomp
7. (You’ve Got Those) Wanna‐Go‐Back‐Again‐Blues
8. If You Can’t Hold the Man You Love
9. Animal Crackers
10. Li’l Farina
11. East St. Louis Toodle‐oo
12. Birmingham Breakdown
13. Immigration Blues
14. The Creeper
15. New‐Orleans Low‐Down
16. Song of the Cotton Field
17. Birmingham Breakdown
18. East St. Louis Toodle‐oo
19. East St. Louis Toodle‐oo
20. Hop Head

Hop Head (1924–1928) (CD 2)

1. Down in Our Alley Blues
2. Black and Tan Fantasy
3. Soliloquy
4. Washington Wobble
5. Creole Love Call
6. The Blues I Love to Sing
7. Black and Tan Fantasy
8. Washington Wobble
9. What Can a Poor Fellow Do
10. Black and Tan Fantasy
11. Chicago Stomp Down
12. Harlem River Quiver (Brown Berries)
13. East St. Louis Toodle‐oo
14. Blue Bubbles
15. Red Hot Band
16. Doing the Frog
17. Sweet Mama (Papa’s Gettin’ Mad)
18. Stack O’Lee Blues
19. Bugle Call Rag
20. Take It Easy

Jubilee Stomp (1928) (CD 1)

1. Jubilee Stomp
2. Harlem Twist (East St. Louis Toodle‐Oo)
3. Jubilee Stomp
4. Take It Easy
5. Take It Easy
6. Jubilee Stomp
7. Black Beauty (Firewater)
8. Black Beauty
9. Jubilee Stomp
10. Got Everything but You
11. Yellow Dog Blues
12. Tishomingo Blues
13. Dida Diga Doo
14. Doin’ the New Low‐Down
15. Black Beauty
16. Swampy River
17. The Mooche
18. Move Over
19. Hot and Bothered

Jubilee Stomp (1928) (CD 2)

1. The Mooche
2. Hot and Bothered
3. Move Over
4. The Mooche
5. Louisiana
6. Awful Sad
7. The Mooche
8. Santa Claus Bring My Man Back
9. I Done Caught the Blues
10. I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
11. No, Papa, No (instrumental)
12. No, Papa, No (vocal)
13. Bandanna Babies
14. Diga Diga Doo
15. I Must Have That Man
16. The Blues With a Feelin’
17. Goin’ to Town
18. Misty Mornin’
19. Hottentot
20. Misty Mornin’

High Life (1928–1929) (CD 1)

1. St. Louis Blues
2. Doin’ the Voom Voom
3. Tiger Rag, Part 1
4. Tiger Rag, Part 2
5. Flaming Youth
6. Saturday Night Function
7. High Life
8. Doin’ the Voom Voom
9. Japanese Dream
10. Harlemania
11. Rent Party Blues
12. Paducah
13. Harlem Flat Blues
14. The Dicty Glide
15. Hot Feet
16. Sloppy Joe
17. Stevedore Stomp
18. Saratoga Swing
19. Who Said ‘’It’s Tight Like That’’?
20. He Just Don’t Appeal to Me

High Life (1928–1929) (CD 2)

1. I Must Have That Man
2. Freeze And Melt
3. Mississippi Moan
4. A Nite at the Cotton Club, Part I
5. A Nite at the Cotton Club, Part II
6. Cotton Club Stomp
7. Misty Mornin’
8. Arabian Lover
9. Saratoga Swing
10. That Rhythmn Man
11. Beggars Blues
12. Saturday Night Function
13. Black and Blue
14. Jungle Jamboree
15. Jungle Jamboree
16. Snake Hip Dance
17. Doin’ the Voom Voom
18. Flaming Youth
19. Saturday Night Function
20. Jolly Wog

The Duke Steps Out (1929–1930) (CD 1)

1. Jazz Convulsions
2. Mississippi
3. The Duke Steps Out
4. Haunted Nights
5. Swanee Shuffles
6. Six or Seven Times
7. Goin’ Nuts
8. Oklahoma Stomp
9. Breakfast Dance
10. Jazz Lips
11. March of the Hoodlums
12. Lazy Duke
13. Blues of the Vagabond
14. Syncopated Shuffle
15. Sweet Mama
16. Wallstreet Wail
17. Cincinatti Daddy
18. St. James Infirmary
19. When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
20. Rent Party Blues

The Duke Steps Out (1929–1930) (CD 2)

1. Jungle Blues
2. Admiration
3. Maori (A Samoan Dance)
4. When You’re Smiling
5. Sing, You Sinners
6. St. James Infirmary
7. The Mooche
8. Ragamuffin Romeo
9. East St. Louis Toodle‐oo
10. Double Check Stomp
11. My Gal Is Good for Nothing but Love
12. I Was Made to Love You
13. Double Check Stomp
14. Accordion Joe
15. Cotton Club Stomp
16. Sweet Dreams of Love
17. Jungle Nights in Harlem
18. Sweet Jazz o’Mine
19. Shout ’Em, Aunt Tillie
20. Sweet Mama

Black and Tan Fantasy (1930–1931) (CD 1)

1. Hot and Bothered
2. Double Check Stomp
3. Black and Tan Fantasy
4. Ring Dem Bells
5. Old Man Blues
6. Ring Dem Bells
7. Old Man Blues
8. Three Little Words
9. Hittin’ the Bottle
10. That Lindy Hop
11. You’re Lucky to Me
12. Memories of You
13. Big House Blues
14. Rocky Mountain Blues
15. Runnin’ Wild
16. Dream Blues (Mood Indigo)
17. Home Again Blues
18. Wang‐Wang Blues
19. Ring Dem Bells
20. Three Little Words

Black and Tan Fantasy (1930–1931) (CD 2)

1. Old Man Blues
2. Sweet Chariot
3. Mood Indigo
4. I Can’t Realize You Love Me
5. I’m So in Love With You
6. Rockin’ in Rhythm
7. Nine Little Miles From Ten‐Ten‐Tennessee
8. I’m So in Love With You
9. What Good Am I Without You
10. Blue Again
11. When a Black Man’s Blue
12. What Good Am I Without You
13. When a Black Man’s Blue
14. Mood Indigo
15. Them There Eyes
16. Rockin’ Chair
17. I’m So in Love With You
18. Rockin’ Chair
19. Rockin’ in Rhythm
20. Twelfth Street Rag

Creole Rhapsody (1931–1932) (CD 1)

1. Twelfth Street Rag
2. Rockin’ in Rhythm
3. The River and Me
4. Keep a Song in Your Soul
5. Sam and Delilah
6. The Peanut Vendor
7. Creole Rhapsody, Part I
8. Creole Rhapsody, Part II
9. Is That Religion?
10. Creole Rhapsody, Part I
11. Creole Rhapsody, Part II
12. Limehouse Blues
13. Echoes of the Jungle
14. It’s Glory
15. The Mystery Song
16. Moon Over Dixie
17. It Don’t Mean a Thing
18. Lazy Rhapsody
19. Mood Indigo / Hot And Bothered / Creole Love Call
20. Blue Tune

Creole Rhapsody (1931–1932) (CD 2)

1. Baby, When You Ain’t There
2. East St. Louis Toodle‐Oo / Lots o’ Fingers / Black and Tan Fantasy
3. Dinah
4. Bugle Call Rag
5. St. Louis Blues
6. Creole Love Call
7. Rose Room
8. Blue Harlem
9. The Sheik of Araby
10. Swampy River
11. Fast and Furious
12. Best Wishes
13. Slippery Horn
14. Blue Ramble
15. Clouds in My Heart
16. Blue Mood
17. Ducky Wucky
18. Jazz Cocktail
19. Lightnin’
20. Maori

Sophisticated Lady (1932–1934) (CD 1)

1. Stars
2. Swing Low
3. Baby!
4. Any Time, Any Day, Anywhere
5. Delta Bound
6. Diga Diga Doo
7. I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
8. Porgy
9. I Must Have That Man
10. Baby!
11. Eerie Moan
12. Merry‐Go‐Round
13. Sophisticated Lady
14. I’ve Got the World on a String
15. Down a Carolina Lane
16. Slippery Horn
17. Blackbird Medley, Part I
18. Blackbird Medley, Part II
19. Drop Me Off at Harlem
20. Happy as the Day Is Long

Sophisticated Lady (1932–1934) (CD 2)

1. Raisin’ the Rent
2. Get Yourself a New Broom (And Sweep the Blues Away)
3. Bundle of Blues
4. Sophisticated Lady
5. Stormy Weather
6. Hyde Park
7. Harlem Speaks
8. Ain’t Misbehavin’
9. Chicago
10. A Souvenir of Duke Ellington
11. I’m Satisified
12. Jive Stomp
13. Harlem Speaks
14. In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
15. Rude Interlude
16. Dallas Doings
17. Dear Old Southland
18. Daybreak Express
19. Delta Serenade
20. Stompy Jones

Solitude (1934–1936) (CD 1)

1. Solitude
2. Blue Feeling
3. Ebony Rhapsody
4. Cocktails for Two
5. Live and Love Tonight
6. I Met My Waterloo
7. My Old Flame
8. Troubled Waters
9. My Old Flame
10. Solitude
11. Saddest Tale
12. Moon Glow
13. Sump ’n’ Bout Rhythm
14. Admiration
15. Farewell Blues
16. Let’s Have a Jubilee
17. Porto Rican Chaos
18. Margie
19. Moonlight Fiesta (Porto Rican Chaos)
20. Tough Truckin’ (von The Duke Ellington Sextet)

Solitude (1934–1936) (CD 2)

1. Indigo Echoes
2. In a Sentimental Mood
3. Showboat Shuffle
4. Merry‐Go‐Round
5. Admiration
6. Cotton
7. Truckin’
8. Accent on Youth
9. Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 1
10. Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 2
11. Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 3
12. Reminiscing in Tempo, Part 4
13. I Don’t Know Why I Love You So
14. Dinah Lou
15. Isn’t Love the Strangest Thing
16. (There Is) No Greater Love
17. Clarinet Lament (Barny’s Concerto)
18. Echoes of Harlem (Cootie’s Concerto)
19. Love Is Like a Cigarette
20. Kissin’ My Baby Good‐Night

Scattin’ at the Cotton Club (1936–1937) (CD 1)

1. Oh, Babe! Maybe Someday
2. Shoe Shine Boy
3. It Was a Sad Night in Harlem
4. Trumpet’s in Spades (Rex’s Concerto)
5. Yearning for Love
6. In a Jam
7. Exposition Swing
8. Uptown Downbeat (Black Out)
9. Rexatious
10. Lazy Man’s Shuffle
11. Clouds in My Heart
12. Frolic Sam (von Barney Bigard and His Jazzopaters)
13. Caravan
14. Stompy Jones
15. Scattin’ at the Cotton Club
16. Black Butterfly
17. Mood Indigo / Solitude
18. Sophisticated Lady / In a Sentimental Mood
19. The New Birmingham Breakdown
20. Scattin’ at the Kit Kat

Scattin’ at the Cotton Club (1936–1937) (CD 2)

1. I Got to Be a Rug Cutter
2. The New East St. Louis Toodle‐Oo
3. I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love With Me
4. Downtown Uproar
5. Digga Digga Doo
6. Blue Reverie
7. Whispering Tiger (Tiger Rag)
8. My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms
9. Did Anyone Ever Tell You?
10. Alabamy Home
11. Where Are You?
12. There’s a Lull in My Life
13. It’s Swell of You
14. You Can’t Run Away From Love Tonight
15. Azure
16. The Lady Who Couldn’t Be Kissed
17. The Old Plantation
18. Solace (Lament for a Lost Love)
19. Four and One Half Street
20. Demi‐Tasse (Each Day)

Jazz a la Carte (1937–1938) (CD 1)

1. Jazz a la Carte
2. Caravan
3. Azure
4. Foolin’ Myself
5. A Sailboat in the Moonlight
6. You’ll Never Go to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)
7. Peckin’
8. All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm (instrumental)
9. All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm (vocal)
10. Alabamy Home
11. Get It Southern Style
12. Moonlight Fiesta
13. Sponge Cake and Spinach
14. If You’re Ever in My Arms Again
15. The Back Room Romp
16. Swing Baby Swing (Love in My Heart)
17. Sugar Hill Shim Sham
18. Tea and Trumpets (von Rex Stewart and His 52nd Street Stompers)
19. Chatterbox
20. Jubilesta

Jazz a la Carte (1937–1938) (CD 2)

1. Diminuendo in Blue
2. Crescendo in Blue
3. Harmony in Harlem
4. Dusk in the Desert
5. Jubilesta
6. Watching
7. Pigeons and Peppers
8. I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
9. Stepping Into Swing Society
10. Prolog to Black and Tan Fantasy
11. The New Black and Tan Fantasy
12. Drummer’s Delight
13. If I Thought You Cared
14. Have a Heart (Lost in Meditation)
15. My Day
16. Silvery Moon and Golden Sands
17. Echoes of Harlem
18. Riding on a Blue Note
19. Lost in Meditation
20. The Gal From Joe’s

Rendezvous With Rhythm (1938) (CD 1)

1. If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do)
2. Scrounch
3. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
4. Braggin’ in Brass
5. Carnival in Caroline
6. Jeep’s Blues (von Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra)
7. If You Were in My Place (What Would You Do)
8. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
9. Rendezvous With Rhythmn
10. A Lesson in C
11. Swingtime In Honolulu
12. Carnival in Caroline
13. Ol’ Man River
14. Swingtime In Honolulu
15. I’m Slappin’ Seventh Avenue (With the Sole of My Shoe)
16. Dinah’s in a Jam
17. You Gave Me the Gate (And I’m Swingin’)
18. Rose of the Rio Grande
19. Pyramid
20. When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (All the Little Birdies Go Tweet‐Tweet‐Tweet)

Rendezvous With Rhythm (1938) (CD 2)

1. Watermelon Man
2. A Gypsy Without a Song
3. The Stevedore’s Serenade
4. La Dee Doody Doo
5. You Walked Out of the Picture
6. Pyramid
7. Empty Ballroom Blues
8. Lost in Meditation
9. A Blues Serenade
10. Love in Swingtime
11. Swingin’ in the Dell
12. Jitterbug’s Lullaby
13. Chasin’ Chippies (von Cootie Williams and His Rug Cutters)
14. Blue Is the Evening
15. Sharpie
16. Swing Pan Alley
17. A Blues Serenade
18. Love in Swingtime
19. Please Forgive Me
20. Lambeth Walk

Prelude to a Kiss (1938–1939) (CD 1)

1. Prelude to a Kiss
2. Hip Chic
3. Buffet Flat
4. Prelude to a Kiss
5. There’s Something About an Old Love
6. The Jeep Is Jumpin’
7. Krum Elbow Blues
8. Twits and Twerps
9. Mighty Like the Blues
10. Jazz Potpourri
11. T.T. on Toast
12. Battle of Swing
13. I’m in Another World
14. Hodge Podge (von Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra)
15. Dancing on the Stars
16. Wanderlust
17. Delta Mood
18. The Boys From Harlem (von Cootie Williams and His Rug Cutters)
19. Mobile Blues
20. Gal‐Avantin’

Prelude to a Kiss (1938–1939) (CD 2)

1. Blue Light (Transblucency)
2. Old King Dooji
3. Boy Meets Horn
4. Slap Happy
5. Like a Ship in the Night
6. Mississippi Dream Boat
7. Swingin’ on the Campus
8. Dooji Wooji (von Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra)
9. Beautiful Romance
10. Boudoir Benny
11. Ain’t the Gravy Good?
12. She’s Gone
13. Just Good Fun
14. Informal Blues
15. San Juan Hill
16. I’ll Come Back for More
17. Lady in Blue
18. Smorgasbord and Schnapps
19. Savoy Strut
20. Rent Party Blues

I’m Checkin’ Out, Goom Bye (1939) (CD 1)

1. Dance of the Goon
2. Good Gal Blues
3. Finesse
4. Portrait of the Lion
5. (I Want) Something to Live For
6. Solid Old Man
7. Kitchen Mechanic’s Day
8. My Heart Jumped Over the Mood
9. You Can Count on Me
10. Home Town Blues
11. Cotton Club Stomp
12. Doin’ the Voom Voom
13. Way Low
14. Serenade to Sweden
15. Utt‐Da‐Zay (The Tailor Song)
16. Chew Chew Chew (Chew Your Bubble Gum)
17. Barney Goin’ Easy (von Barney Bigard and His Jazzopaters)
18. Just Another Dream
19. In a Mizz
20. I’m Checkin’ Out, Goom‐Bye

I’m Checkin’ Out, Goom Bye (1939) (CD 2)

1. A Lonely Co‐Ed
2. You Can Count on Me
3. Night Song
4. Blues A‐Poppin’
5. Top and Bottom
6. Black Beauty
7. Bouncing Buoyancy
8. The Sergeant Was Shy
9. I’m Checkin’ Out, Goom‐Bye
10. Tootin’ Through the Roof
11. Grievin’
12. The Rabbit’s Jump
13. Moon Romance
14. Truly Wonderful
15. Dream Blues
16. Little Posey
17. I Never Felt This Way Before
18. Grievin’
19. Tootin’ Through the Roof
20. Weely (A Portrait of Billy Strayhorn)

Cotton Tail (1940) (CD 1)

1. Toasted Pickle
2. Give It Up
3. You, You Darlin’
4. Jack the Bear
5. Ko‐Ko
6. Morning Glory
7. So Far, So Good
8. Conga Brava
9. Concerto For Cootie
10. Me and You
11. Bojangles
12. Cotton Tail
13. Never No Lament (Don’t Get Around Much Anymore)
14. Blue Goose
15. Dusk
16. Bojangles
17. A Portrait of Bert Williams
18. Blue Goose
19. Harlem Air Shaft
20. At a Dixie Roadside Dinner

Cotton Tail (1940) (CD 2)

1. All Too Soon
2. Rumpus in Richmond
3. My Greatest Mistake
4. Sepia Panorama
5. There Shall Be No Night
6. In A Mellotone
7. Five O’Clock Whistle
8. Warm Valley
9. Pitter Panther Patter
10. Body and Soul
11. Sophisticated Lady
12. Mr. J.B. Blues
13. The Flaming Sword
14. Warm Valley
15. Across the Track Blues
16. Chloe (Song of the Swamp)
17. I Never Felt This Way Before
18. Day Dream
19. Good Queen Bess
20. That’s the Blues, Old Man

Blue Serge (1940–1941) (CD 1)

1. Junior Hop
2. Without a Song
3. My Sunday Gal
4. Mobile Bay (von Rex Stewart & His Orchestra)
5. Linger a While
6. Charlie the Chulo
7. Lament for Javanette
8. A Lull at Dawn
9. Ready Eddy
10. Sidewalks of New York
11. Flamingo
12. The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You
13. Take the “A” Train
14. Jumpin’ Punkins
15. John Hardy’s Wife
16. Blue Serge
17. After All
18. Dear Old Southland
19. Solitude
20. Bakiff

Blue Serge (1940–1941) (CD 2)

1. Are You Sticking?
2. Just A‐Sittin’ and A‐Rockin’
3. The Giddybug Gallop
4. Chocolate Shake
5. I Got It Bad (and That Ain’t Good)
6. Clementine
7. The Brown Skin Gal
8. Jump for Joy
9. Jump for Joy
10. Moon Over Cuba
11. Some Saturday
12. Subtle Slough (von Rex Stewart & His Orchestra)
13. Menelik (The Lion of Judah)
14. Poor Bubber
15. Squaty Roo (von Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra)
16. Passion Flower
17. Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
18. Goin’ Out the Back Way
19. Five O’Clock Drag
20. Rocks in My Bed

Chelsea Bridge (1941–1944) (CD 1)

1. Bli‐Blip
2. Chelsea Bridge
3. Brown Suede
4. Noir Bleu
5. “C” Jam Blues
6. June
7. Raincheck
8. What Good Would It Do?
9. I Don’t Know What Kind of Blues I Got
10. Chelsea Bridge
11. Perdido
12. “C” Jam Blues
13. Moon Mist
14. What Am I Here For?
15. I Don’t Mind
16. Someone
17. My Little Brown Book
18. Main Stem
19. Johnny Come Lately
20. Hayfoot, Strawfoot

Chelsea Bridge (1941–1944) (CD 2)

1. Sentimental Lady
2. A Slip of the Lip
3. Sherman Shuffle
4. Boy Meets Horn
5. Hop Skip Jump
6. Things Ain’t What They Used to Be
7. Main Stem
8. Creole Love Call
9. The Mood to Be Wooed
10. My Little Brown Book
11. I’m Checkin’ Out Goom‐Bye
12. Tootin’ Through the Roof
13. I Ain’t Got Nothing but the Blues
14. I’m Beginning to See the Light
15. Don’t You Know I Care
16. I Didn’t Know About You
17. Work Song
18. Come Sunday
19. The Blues
20. Three Dances

Mood Indigo (1945) (CD 1)

1. Carnegie Blues
2. Blue Cellophane
3. Mood to Be Wooed
4. My Heart Sings
5. Mood Indigo
6. Bug in a Rug
7. The Mooche
8. Kandylamb
9. Perfume Suite, Part I: Under the Balcony / Strange Feeling
10. Perfume Suite, Part II: Dancer in Love / Coloratura
11. Frantic Fantasy
12. It Don’t Mean a Thing
13. Black, Brown and Beige, Part I: Blues
14. Black, Brown and Beige, Part II: West Indian Dance / Emancipation Celebration / Sugar Hill Penthouse
15. The Kissing Bug
16. Everything but You
17. Riff Staccato
18. Prelude to a Kiss
19. Caravan
20. Black and Tan Fantasy

Mood Indigo (1945) (CD 2)

1. Mood Indigo
2. Harlem Airshaft
3. The Minor Goes a Muggin’
4. In a Sentimental Mood
5. It Don’t Mean a Thing
6. Sophisticated Lady
7. Tonight I Shall Sleep
8. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
9. Solitude
10. Frankie and Johnnie
11. Jumpin’ Room Only
12. Black Beauty
13. Every Hour on the Hour
14. Hollywood Hangover
15. Kissing Bug
16. In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
17. Frankie and Johnnie, Part I
18. Frankie and Johnnie, Part II
19. Sugar Hill Penthouse
20. Diminuendo in Blue / Crescendo in Blue

New World a Comin’ (1945–1946) (CD 1)

1. New World a Comin’, Part 1
2. New World a Comin’, Part 2
3. Prelude to a Kiss
4. Ring Dem Bells
5. Perfume Suite: Strange Feeling
6. Perfume Suite: Coloratura
7. Perfume Suite: Balcony Serenade
8. Perfume Suite: Coloratura
9. Time’s a Wastin’
10. Perfume Suite: Dancers in Love
11. Carnegie Blues
12. Tell Ya What I’m Gonna Do
13. Come to Baby, Do!
14. I’m Just a Lucky So and So
15. Long, Strong and Consecutive
16. The Wonder of You
17. Tonk
18. Drawing Room Blues
19. Esquire Swank
20. “C” Jam Blues

New World a Comin’ (1945–1946) (CD 2)

1. Unbooted Character
2. Rockabye River
3. Suddenly It Jumped
4. Transblucency
5. Just Squeeze Me
6. A Gathering in a Clearing
7. You Don’t Love Me No More
8. Pretty Woman
9. Hey! Baby
10. Indiana
11. Blue Is the Light
12. Lover Man
13. Just You, Just Me
14. Beale Street Blues
15. My Honey’s Lovin’ Arms
16. Memphis Blues
17. I Don’t Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You
18. St. Louis Blues
19. Swamp Fire
20. Royal Garden Blues

Magenta Haze (1946) (CD 1)

1. Esquire Swank
2. Midriff
3. Diminuendo in Blue
4. Magenta Haze
5. The Golden Cress
6. Sultry Sunset
7. Deep South Suite, Part 1 (Magnolia’s Dripping With Molasses)
8. Deep South Suite, Part 2 (Hearsay or Orson Welles)
9. Deep South Suite, Part 3 (Nobody Was Lookin’)
10. Deep South Suite, Part 4 (Happy Go Lucky Local)
11. Liberian Suite (I Like the Sunrise)
12. Liberian Suite (Dance No.1)
13. Liberian Suite (Dance No.2)
14. Liberian Suite (Dance No.3)
15. Liberian Suite (Dance No.4)
16. Liberian Suite (Dance No.5)

Magenta Haze (1946) (CD 2)

1. Take the “A” Train
2. Melloditti
3. Fugueaditty
4. Jam‐A‐Ditty
5. Magenta Haze
6. Diminuendo in Blue / Transblucency
7. Crescendo in Blue
8. Suburbanite
9. I’m Just a Lucky So and So
10. Riffin’ Drill

In a Mellow Tone (1946–1947) (CD 1)

1. Caravan
2. In a Mellow Tone
3. Solid Old Man
4. Spiritual (Come Sunday) / Worksong
5. The Blues
6. Rugged Romeo
7. Sono
8. Air‐Conditioned Jungle
9. Pither Panther Patter

In a Mellow Tone (1946–1947) (CD 2)

1. The New Look (Snibor)
2. Blue Serge
3. Triple Play
4. Harlem Airshaft
5. Johnny Hodges Medley: Wanderlust / Junior Hop / Jeep’s Blues / Squatty Roo / The Mood to Be Wooed
6. Mella Brava
7. Kickapoo Joy Juice
8. On a Turquoise Cloud
9. Bakiff
10. Cotton Tail

Volume I (1927-1940)

1. Hot and Bothered (von Mills' Ten Black Berries)
2. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (von The Washingtonians)
3. Black and Tan Fantasy
4. Black Beauty (von Duke Ellington)
5. Ring Dem Bells (von The Harlem Music Masters)
6. The Mooche
7. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
8. Slippery Horn (von Monster Shack Crew)
9. Saddest Tale
10. Showboat Shuffle
11. In a Sentimental Mood
12. In a Jam
13. Caravan (von Barney Bigard and His Jazzopaters)
14. The Gal From Joe's
15. Braggin' in Brass (From the Broadway Revue, "Cotton club Parade of 1938")
16. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
17. Battle of Swing
18. Prelude to a Kiss
19. Slap Happy
20. Old King Dooji
21. Portrait of the Lion
22. Country Gal
23. Little Posey
24. Tootin' Through the Roof
25. Sophisticated Lady

Volume II (1947-1951)

1. Hy'a Sue
2. Lady of the Lavender Mist
3. Antidisestablishmentarianismist
4. Golden Cress
5. Sultry Serenade
6. Maybe I Should Change My Ways
7. Stomp, Look and Listen
8. On a Turquoise Cloud
9. Three Cent Stomp
10. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
11. Progressive Gavotte
12. I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me
13. I Like the Sunrise
14. Snibor
15. Creole Love Call
16. The Tattooed Bride
17. Brown Betty
18. Primpin' at the Prom
19. Monologue (Pretty and the Wolf)
20. Take the "A" Train

Volume III (1956-1962)

1. Jeep's Blues (von Duke Ellington)
2. Solitude
3. Blue Rose
4. The Star-Crossed Lovers (a.k.a. Pretty Girl)
5. Mood Indigo
6. Dancers in Love
7. Come Sunday (von Duke Ellington and His Orchestra featuring Mahalia Jackson)
8. Satin Doll
9. Flirtbird
10. Perdido
11. "C" Jam Blues
12. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
13. Happy Go Lucky Local
14. Something to Live For
15. Creole Blues (excerpt From 'Creole Rhapsody')
16. Dance of the Floreadores (Waltz of the Flowers)
17. Lotus Blossom
18. A Midnight in Paris
19. Asphalt Jungle Theme
20. Battle Royal
21. Duke Loves You Madly (Spoken)