Complete Original American Decca Recordings

Complete Original American Decca Recordings Artist: Duke Ellington
Label: Definitive
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 3
EAN: 8436006491962
ASIN: B00005S6S4


Release Date: 2004-04-01

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Tracks:

  1. East St.Louis Toodle -O
  2. Birmingham Breakdown
  3. Immigration Blues
  4. Creeper
  5. New Orleans Low-Down
  6. Song Of The Cotton Field
  7. Birmingham Breakdown
  8. East St.Louis Toodle-O
  9. Black And Tan Fantasy
  10. Soliloquy
  11. Rd Hot Band
  12. Doin' The Frog
  13. Take It Easy
  14. Jubilee Stomp
  15. Black Beauty
  16. Yellow Dog Blues
  17. Tishomingo Blues
  18. Awful Sad
  19. Mooche
  20. Louisiana
  21. Creeper * Bonus Track*
  22. Black Beuty * Bonus Track*
  23. Doin' The Voom Voom
  24. Tiger Rag ( Part 1)
  25. Tiger Rag ( Part 2)
  26. Rent Party Blues
  27. Paducah
  28. Harlem Flat Blues
  29. Black And Blue
  30. Jungle Jamboree
  31. Ain't Misbehavin'
  32. Doin' The New Low Down
  33. Jolly Wog
  34. Jazz Convulsions
  35. Six Or Seven Times
  36. Goin' Nuts
  37. Oklahoma Stomp
  38. Sweet Mama
  39. Wall Street Wail
  40. Cincinnati Daddy
  41. Tiger Rag * Bonus Track*
  42. Six Or Seven Times * Bonus Track*
  43. Oklahoma Stomp * Bonus Track*
  44. Wall Street Wail * Bonus Track*
  45. Maori
  46. When You're Smiling
  47. Maori
  48. Admiration
  49. Double Check Stomp
  50. Accordion Joe
  51. Cotton Club Stomp
  52. Runnin Wild
  53. Mood Indigo
  54. Home Again Blues
  55. Wang Wang Blues
  56. Rockin' Chair
  57. Rockin' In Rhythm
  58. Twelfth Street Rag
  59. Peanut Vendor
  60. Creole Rhapsody ( Part 1)
  61. Creole Rhapsody ( Part 2)
  62. Is That Religion?
  63. When You're Smiling * Bonus Track*
  64. Maori * Bonus Track*
  65. Accordion Joe * Bonus Track*
  66. Cotton Club Stomp * Bonus Track*
  67. Creole Rhapsody * Bonus Track*

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Pirating.......2006-07-11

I'm not sure where "Definitive" and "Calvados" get their titles. This set was burned over from the GRP/Decca/MCA set entitled "Early Ellington : complete Brunswick recordings". Decca bought them later, but they were not "Decca" recordings. Another example of tonto-style name-switching would be the Definitive Ellington "Complete Studio Transcriptions", a burn-over from the Hindsight set of the Capitol Transcriptions from 1946 - 1947. Duke Ellington never made any "Studio Transcriptions". He made "Standard", "World", and "Capitol". Why these shell-games? Ask "Calvados", if you can find him.
In any event, "Calvados" has beaten GRP's price for the early Brunswick/Vocalion recordings. (Later issues on these historic labels wound up in the hands, ultimately, of Columbia, which has YET to re-issue them in full - a couple of sets were available at some time in the past through an English outfit called "Jazz Information", according to the Penguin Guide to jazz on CD, though I myself have never heard or even seen these discs.) Of course, "Definitive" doesn't supply the excellent documentation included in that set. Instead, you get "Calvados" book-report style mumbo-jumbo. Along with Definitive's occasionally bizarre aural artifacts.
Hey! Why not BUY this set anyway! Or steal it from someone who DID buy it. Then burn it over and sell the discs for 25 cents a piece, or get a techie to transfer it over the Internet! Then "Calvados" will go back to selling noisemakers at soccer games or pickpocketing tourists.

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