Cotton tail/ C jam blues/ Flamingo/ Bang up blues/ Things ain't what they used to be/ Make no mistake/ Tonk/ Johnny came lately/ In a blue summer garden/ Great times/ Build that railroad/ Love you madly/ Great times/ The tattoed bride/ mood indigo
Line-up :
Duke Ellington (pn, lead) + coll Nelson Williams, Harold Baker, Andres Merenguito, Mercer Ellington (tp) Lawrence Brown, Quentin jackson, Tyree Glenn (tb) Harry Carney, Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gonsalves, Russell Procope (sax, cl) Wendell Marshall, Joe Shulman (cb, cello) Sonny Greer (dms) Al Hibbler Yvonne Lanauze (voc) Billy Strayhorn (pn, arr) Jo Jones (dms) Wild Bill Davis (org) John Collins (gt)
Classics, 1950