Indiana/ Blue is the light/ Lover man/ Just you just me/ Beale street blues/ My honey's love arms/ Memphis blues/ I don't stand a ghost of a chance/ St Louis blues/ Swamp fire/ Royal garden blues/ Esqire swank/ Midriff/ Diminuendo in blue/ Magenta haze/ The golden cress/ Sultry sunset/ Deep south suite (magnolia dripping qith molasse - hearsay on Orson Welles ) Nobody was lockin - Happy go lucky local
Line-up :
Duke Ellington (pn, lead) + coll Shelton Scad Hemphill, Taft Jordan, Cat Anderson, Francis Williams, Harold Baker (tp) Ray Nance, (tp, vln, voc) Joe Tricky Sam Nanton, Lawrence Brown, Claude Jones, Wilbur de Paris (tb) Harry Carney, Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Hamilton, Al Sears, Russell Procope (sax, cl) Fred Guy (gt) Oscar Pettiford (cb) Sonny Greer (dms) Marion Cox Kay davis (voc) Leonard feather (mc)
Classics, 1946