The Best Of Duke Ellington & His Orchestra | Mood Indigo

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00:00:00 Black And Tan Fantasy
00:03:22 Prelude To A Kiss
00:06:19 East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
00:09:23 Pyramid
00:12:12 Hot And Bothered
00:15:27 I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
00:18:36 Take It Easy
00:21:11 Tired Socks
00:24:00 Cotton Tail
00:27:10 The Mooche
00:30:31 Creole Rhapsody (Part 1 & 2)
00:38:57 Ko-Ko
00:41:38 Mood Indigo
00:44:18 Rockin' In Rhythm
00:47:31 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
00:50:50 It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
00:53:58 Creole Love Call
00:57:09 Harlem Air Shaft
01:00:06 Sophisticated Lady
01:03:19 Take The ''A'' Train
01:06:14 Drop Me Off In Harlem
01:09:12 Solitude
01:12:23 In A Sentimental Mood
01:15:39 Clouds In My Heart
01:18:34 Echoes Of Harlem (Cootie's Concerto)
01:21:33 Back Room Romp
01:24:20 Caravan
01:27:01 Crescendo In Blue
01:30:14 Blue Reverie
01:33:08 Diminuendo In Blue

* The Best Of Duke Ellington & His Orchestra | Mood Indigo *
** The Best Of Duke Ellington & His Orchestra | Mood Indigo **
** The Best Of Duke Ellington & His Orchestra | Mood Indigo **
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured Europe several times. Some of the jazz musicians who were members of Ellington's orchestra, such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, are considered among the best players in the idiom. Ellington melded them into the best regarded orchestral unit in the history of jazz. Some members stayed with the orchestra for several decades. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote or collaborated on more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards. He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol's "Caravan", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz. At the end of the 1930s, Ellington began a nearly thirty-year collaboration with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion. With Strayhorn, he composed multiple extended compositions, or suites, as well as many short pieces. For a few years at the beginning of Strayhorn's involvement, Ellington's orchestra is considered to have been at its peak, with bassist Jimmy Blanton and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster briefly members. Following a low-profile period (Hodges temporarily left), an appearance by Ellington and his orchestra at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1956 led to a major revival and regular world tours. Ellington recorded for most American record companies of his era, performed in and scored several films, and composed a handful of stage musicals. Although a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, in the opinion of Gunther Schuller and Barry Kernfeld, "the most significant composer of the genre", Ellington himself embraced the phrase "beyond category", considering it a liberating principle, and referring to his music as part of the more general category of American Music. Ellington was known for his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, as well as for his eloquence and charisma. He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999.
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