The Centennial Edition: Complete RCA Victor Recordings

Artist: Duke Ellington Label: RCA Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Box set Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 24 UPC: 090266338627 EAN: 0090266338627 ASIN: B00000IIQY Release Date: 1999-04-27

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Tracks:

1. If You Can't Hold the Man You Love (Don't Cry When He's Gone)
2. Washington Wabble - Take 1
3. Washington Wabble - Take 2
4. Black and Tan Fantasy
5. Washington Wabble
6. Creole Love Call
7. Blues I Love to Sing - Take 1
8. Blues I Love to Sing - Take 2
9. Harlem River Quiver - Take 1
10. Harlem River Quiver - Take 2
11. Harlem River Quiver - Take 3
12. East St. Louis Toodle-o
13. Blue Bubbles - Take 1
14. Blue Bubbles - Take 2
15. Black Beauty
16. Solitude - Take 1
17. Got Everything But You
18. Santa Claus, Bring My Man Back to Me
19. I Done Caught You Blues
20. The Mooche

Tracks:

1. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
2. No Papa No
3. No Papa No
4. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
5. Bandanna Babies
6. Diga Diga Do
7. I Must Have That Man
8. St. Louis Blues - Take 1
9. St. Louis Blues - Take 2
10. St. Louis Blues - Take 3 (previously unreleased)
11. Flaming Youth - Take 1
12. Flaming Youth - Take 2
13. Saturday Night Function
14. High Life
15. Doin' the Voom Voom - Take 1 (previously unreleased)
16. Doin' the Voom Voom - Take 2
17. Japanese Dream
18. Harlemania

Tracks:

1. The Dicty Glide - Take 1
2. The Dicty Glide - Take 2
3. Hot Feet
4. Sloppy Joe - Take 1
5. Sloppy Joe - Take 2
6. Stevedore Stomp
7. A Night at the Cotton Club, Part 1/Cotton Club Stomp/Misty Mornin'
8. A Night at the Cotton Club, Part 2/Goin' to Town/Untitled Interlude/Freeze and Melt
9. Cotton Club Stomp
10. Misty Mornin'
11. Arabian Lover
12. Saratoga Swing
13. Mississippi
14. The Duke Steps Out
15. Haunted Nights
16. Swanee Shuffle
17. Breakfast Dance
18. Jazz Lips
19. March of the Hoodlums

Tracks:

1. Double Check Stomp
2. My Gal Is Good for Nothing But Love
3. I Was Made to Love You
4. Sweet Dreams Of Love - Take 1
5. Sweet Dreams of Love - Take 2
6. Jungle Nights in Harlem
7. Sweet Jazz o' Mine - Take 1
8. Sweet Jazz o' Mine - Take 2
9. Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie
10. Ring Dem Bells - Take 2
11. Ring Dem Bells - Take 3
12. Old Man Blues - Take 1
13. Old Man Blues - Take 2
14. Old Man Blues - Take 3
15. Three Little Words (previously unreleased)
16. Three Little Words
17. Ring Dem Bells
18. Old Man Blues - Take 4
19. Old Man Blues - Take 6
20. Hittin' the Bottle - Take 1
21. Hittin' the Bottle - Take 2
22. That Lindy Hop

Tracks:

1. You're Lucky to Me
2. Memories of You
3. Nine Little Miles from Ten-Ten-Tennessee - Take 1
4. Nine Little Miles from Ten-Ten-Tennessee - Take 2
5. I'm So in Love with You - Take 1 (previously unreleased)
6. I'm So in Love with You - Take 2
7. What Good Am I Without You?
8. Blue Again
9. When a Black Man's Blue
10. Mood Indigo
11. What Good Am I Without You?
12. When a Black Man's Blue
13. The River and Me
14. Keep a Song in Your Soul
15. Sam and Delilah
16. Rockin' in Rhythm - Take 1
17. Rockin' in Rhythm - Take 2
18. Creole Rhapsody, Part 1
19. Creole Rhapsody, Part 2
20. Creole Rhapsody, Part 2 - Take 2 (previously unreleased)

Tracks:

1. Limehouse Blues
2. Echoes of the Jungle
3. It's Glory
4. The Mystery Song
5. The Mystery Song
6. Mood Indigo/Hot and Bothered/Creole Love Call
7. Mood Indigo/Hot and Bothered/Creole Love Call (Stereo Version)
8. East St. Louis Toodle-O/Lots O' Fingers/Black and Tan Fantasy
9. Dinah
10. Bugle Call Rag
11. Maori
12. Rude Interlude - Take 1
13. Rude Interlude - Take 2
14. Dallas Doings - Take 1
15. Dallas Doings - Take 2

Tracks:

1. Dear Old Southland - Take 1
2. Dear Old Southland - Take 2
3. Daybreak Express - Take 1
4. Daybreak Express - Take 2
5. Delta Serenade - Take 1
6. Delta Serenade - Take 2
7. Stompy Jones
8. Solitude
9. Blue Feeling
10. Ebony Rhapsody
11. Cocktails for Two - Take 1
12. Cocktails for Two - Take 2
13. Live and Love Tonight
14. I Met My Waterloo
15. Troubled Waters - Take 1 (previously unreleased)
16. Troubled Waters - Take 2
17. My Old Flame

Tracks:

1. You, You Darlin'
2. Jack the Bear
3. Ko-Ko - Take 1
4. Ko-Ko - Take 2
5. Morning Glory
6. So Far, So Good
7. Conga Brava
8. Concerto for Cootie
9. Me and You
10. Bojangles
11. Cotton Tail
12. Never No Lament
13. Blue Goose
14. Dusk - Take 1
15. Dusk - Take 2
16. Bojangles
17. A Portrait of Bert Williams
18. Blue Goose
19. Harlem Air-Shaft
20. At a Dixie Roadside Diner
21. All Too Soon
22. Rumpus in Richmond
23. My Greatest Mistake

Tracks:

1. Sepia Panorama - Take 1
2. Sepia Panorama - Take 2
3. There Shall Be No Night
4. In a Mellotone
5. Five O'Clock Whistle
6. Warm Valley
7. Pitter Panther Patter - Take 1
8. Pitter Panther Patter - Take 2
9. Body and Soul - Take 1
10. Body and Soul - Take 2
11. Body and Soul - Take 3
12. Sophisticated Lady
13. Sophisticated Lady
14. Mr. J. B. Blues - Take 1
15. Mr. J. B. Blues - Take 2
16. The Flaming Sword - Take 1
17. The Flaming Sword - Take 2
18. The Flaming Sword - Take 3
19. Warm Valley - Take 2
20. Warm Valley - Take 3
21. Across the Track Blues
22. Across the Track Blues
23. Chloe (Song of the Swamp)

Tracks:

1. I Never Felt This Way Before - Take 1
2. I Never Felt This Way Before - Take 2
3. Day Dream
4. Good Queen Bess
5. Good Queen Bess
6. That's the Blues, Old Man
7. Junior Hop - Take 1
8. Junior Hop - Take 2
9. Without a Song - Take 1
10. Without a Song - Take 2
11. My Sunday Gal
12. Mobile Bay - Take 1
13. Mobile Bay - Take 2
14. Linger Awhile - Take 1
15. Linger Awhile - Take 2
16. Charlie the Chulo - Take 2
17. Charlie the Chulo
18. Charlie the Chulo - Take 1
19. Lament for Javanette
20. Lament for Javanette - Take 1a
21. A Lull at Dawn
22. A Lull at Dawn
23. A Lull at Dawn - Take 1a
24. Ready Eddy - Take 1

Tracks:

1. Ready Eddy
2. Ready Eddy
3. Ready Eddy - Take 2
4. The Sidewalks of New York
5. Flamingo
6. The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You - Take 1
7. The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You - Take 2
8. Take the "A" Train
9. Jumpin' Punkins - Take 1
10. Jumpin' Punkins - Take 2
11. John Hardy's Wife
12. Blue Serge
13. After All
14. Dear Old Southland - Take 1
15. Dear Old Southland - Take 2
16. Solitude - Take 1
17. Solitude - Take 2
18. Bakiff
19. Are You Sticking? - Take 1
20. Are You Sticking? - Take 2
21. Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'
22. The Giddybug Gallop
23. Chocolate Shake

Tracks:

1. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) - Take 1
2. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) - Take 2
3. Clementine
4. The Brown-skin Gal (in the Calico Gown)
5. Jump for Joy - Take 1
6. Jump for Joy - Take 2
7. Moon Over Cuba
8. Some Saturday
9. Subtle Slough
10. Menelik - The Lion of Judah - Take 1
11. Menelik - The Lion of Judah - Take 2 (previously unreleased)
12. Poor Bubber
13. Squaty Roo
14. Passion Flower
15. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
16. Goin' Out the Back Way
17. Five O'Clock Drag
18. Rocks in My Bed
19. Bli-Blip
20. Chelsea Bridge
21. Brown Suede
22. Noir Bleu
23. "C" Blues
24. June

Tracks:

1. Raincheck
2. What Good Would It Do?
3. I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got - Take 1
4. I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got - Take 2 (previously unreleased)
5. Chelsea Bridge
6. Perdido - Take 1
7. Perdido - Take 2
8. The "C" Jam Blues
9. Moon Mist - Take 1
10. Moon Mist - Take 2
11. What Am I Here For?
12. I Don't Mind - Take 1 (previously unreleased)
13. I Don't Mind - Take 2
14. Someone
15. My Little Brown Book
16. Main Stem
17. Johnny Come Lately
18. Hayfoot, Strawfoot - Take 1
19. Hayfoot, Strawfoot - Take 2
20. Sentimental Lady - Take 1
21. Sentimental Lady - Take 2
22. A Slip of the Lip
23. Sherman Shuffle

Tracks:

1. I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues
2. I'm Beginning to See the Light - Take 1
3. I'm Beginning to See the Light - Take 2
4. Don't You Know I Care - Take 1
5. Don't You Know I Care - Take 2
6. I Didn't Know About You
7. Work Song
8. Come Sunday
9. The Blues
10. Three Dances
11. Carnegie Blues
12. Blue Cellophane
13. Mood to Be Wooed
14. (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings
15. Kissing Bug
16. Everything But You
17. (Otto Make That) Riff Staccato
18. Prelude to a Kiss
19. Caravan
20. Black and Tan Fantasy
21. Mood Indigo
22. In a Sentimental Mood

Tracks:

1. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got that Swing)
2. Sophisticated Lady
3. Tonight I Shall Sleep (With a Smile on My Face)
4. The Minor Goes Muggin'
5. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart - Take 1
6. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart - Take 2
7. Solitude
8. Frankie and Johnny
9. Jumpin' Room Only
10. Black Beauty
11. Every Hour on the Hour
12. Balcony Serenade
13. Strange Feeling
14. Dancers in Love
15. Coloratura - Take 2
16. Coloratura - Take 1
17. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
18. Tell Ya What I'm Gonna Do
19. Come to Baby, Do!
20. I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So
21. Long, Strong and Consecutive
22. The Wonder of You
23. Tonk
24. Drawing Room Blues

Tracks:

1. Rockabye River
2. Suddenly It Jumped
3. Transblucency
4. Just Squeeze Me
5. Gathering in a Clearing
6. You Don't Love Me No More
7. Pretty Woman
8. Hey, Baby
9. (Back Home Again in) Indiana
10. Blue Is the Night
11. Lover Man - Take 1
12. Lover Man - Take 2
13. Just You, Just Me
14. Beale Street Blues
15. Memphis Blues
16. St. Louis Blues
17. My Honey's Lovin' Arms
18. (I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance (with You)
19. Swamp Fire
20. Royal Garden Blues
21. Esquire Swank
22. Midriff

Tracks:

1. Long, Long Journey
2. The One That Got Away
3. Gone with the Wind
4. Metronome All-Out
5. Skin Deep
6. How Could You Do a Thing Like That to Me? (Sultry Serenade)
7. Sophisticated Lady
8. Perdido
9. Caravan
10. Harlem Suite
11. The Hawk Talks
12. Ellington Medley: Don't Get Around Much Any More/In a Sentimental Mood/Mood Indigo/I'mBeginning to See the Light/Prelude to a Kiss/It Don't Mean a Thing (IfIt Ain't Got that Swing)/Solitude/I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
13. Jam with Sam

Tracks:

1. In the Beginning God
2. Tell Me It's the Truth
3. Come Sunday
4. The Lord's Prayer
5. Come Sunday
6. Will You Be There?/Ain't But the One
7. New World A-Comin'
8. David Danced (Before the Lord with All His Might)
9. Ninety Nine Percent (previously unreleased)
10. My Mother, My Father and Love (previously unreleased)
11. New World A-Comin' (previously unreleased)
12. A Christmas Surprise (previously unreleased)
13. A Christmas Surprise (previously unreleased)

Tracks:

1. Praise God
2. Supreme Being
3. Heaven
4. Something 'Bout Believing
5. Almighty God
6. The Shepherd
7. It's Freedom
8. Meditation
9. The Biggest and Busiest Intersection
10. T. G. T. T.
11. Don't Get Down on Your Knees to Pray Until You Have Forgiven Everyone

Tracks:

1. Father Forgive
2. Praise God and Dance
3. Introduction by Sir Colin Crowe
4. Introduction by Duke Ellington
5. The Lord's Prayer/My Love
6. Is God a Three-Letter Word for Love? (Part I)
7. Is God a Three-Letter Word for Love? (Part II)
8. The Brotherhood
9. Hallelujah
10. Every Man Prays in His Own Language
11. Ain't Nobody Nowhere Nothin' Without God
12. The Majesty of God

Tracks:

1. Tourist Point of View - Take 7
2. Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) - Take 12
3. Isfahan - Take 1
4. Depk
5. Mount Harissa
6. Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues)
7. Agra
8. Amad - Take 3
9. Ad Lib on Nippon
10. Tourist Point of View - Take 5
11. Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) - Take 8
12. Isfahan - Take 2
13. Amad - Take 5

Tracks:

1. Take the "A" Train
2. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
3. Perdido
4. Mood Indigo
5. Black and Tan Fantasy
6. The Twitch
7. Solitude
8. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
9. The Mooche
10. Sophisticated Lady
11. Creole Love Call
12. Caravan (previously unreleased)
13. Wings & Things (previously unreleased)
14. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me (previously unreleased)
15. House of Lords
16. The Second Portrait of the Lion
17. Take the "A" Train
18. Caravan
19. Mood Indigo
20. Love Scene (previously unreleased)

Tracks:

1. The Mooche
2. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
3. I'm Beginning to See the Light
4. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
5. Sophisticated Lady
6. Timon of Athens March
7. Solitude
8. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
9. Satin Doll
10. Single Petal of a Rose (previously unreleased)
11. Snibor
12. Boo-Dah
13. Blood Count
14. U. M. M. G.
15. Charpoy
16. After All
17. The Intimacy of the Blues
18. Raincheck - Take 6
19. Raincheck - Take 4 (previously unreleased)
20. Day Dream
21. Rock Skippin' at the Blue Note

Tracks:

1. All Day Long
2. Lotus Blossom - Take 1
3. Lotus Blossom
4. Smada - Take 3 (previously unreleased)
5. Smada - Take 4
6. Midriff
7. My Little Brown Book
8. Acht O'Clock Rock
9. The Piano Player
10. Creole Love Call
11. Don't You Know I Care
12. I Can't Get Started with You
13. New York, New York
14. Pitter Panther Patter
15. How High the Moon
16. Basin Street Blues
17. Tiger Rag
18. Soso
19. Meditation
20. Mecuria, the Lion (previously unreleased)

Customer Reviews:

gorgeous packaging, philistines.......2003-03-25

A SOLID SUPPORT TO THE GREAT DUKE ELLINGTON MUSICAL LEGACY........2002-01-02

We have experimented a wide range of emotions! For example, the inclusion of the "Three Sacred Concerts", we believe, was a great idea with the addition of the Second one, thanks to "Fantasy Records" permission.

Also, we are impressed by the early 1930ýs "stereo sound". It is really amazing to hear this special effect from that time. Surely, Duke Ellington would be feeling happy to listen to this, as he loved -and this is a fundamental fact about his musical legacy- the recording technology, and used it to record and record again, having the concept of the Great Music, and the wonderful Art of Improvisation, being recorded for the posterity, and for the new generations of young people who really love music.

Here, we believe that it is important to remember that a genuine "Jazz Performance" is only one, and it never will be the same the next opportunity.

Also, we like the box set book for its sober, satin finish pages, the magnificent photos, general design, and, of course, the invaluable and complete information.

Undoubtely, this box set is the result of a very hard, extensive and extraordinary research, writing, audio restoration, remastering, printing and special manufacturing work, and we, with deep admiration, congratulate the Duke Ellingtonýs legacy lovers, Steven Lasker and Orrin Keepnews, among other persons at RCA-BMG, for this Giant Homage to Duke.

If you really love music, and the musical legacy from Edward Kennedy Ellington, this box set is a must! Imagine: ALL the Duke Ellingtonýs RCA recordings stored on the box setýs 24 compact discs, and with that magnificent restored sound...!

This BMG-RCA Duke Ellingtonýs Centennial Edition, 24 Compact Discs Box Set, is an authentic HISTORIC TREASURE.

Finally, as this box set is a limited edition product, we would like to receive an "online" serial number, from one of a certain quantity of items that were manufactured by BMG-RCA.

Problems with Noise Reduction.......2001-11-10

No excuse for the crummy packaging.......2001-08-06

Next, the little ribbons used for lifting the CDs out of their wells in the plastic box insert are glued in place. Guess what? They come unglued! Unless you reglue them, you have to turn the box upside down and shake out all the CDs to get the one you want.

Finally, the lovely book that comes with the set is cheaply bound. I haven't even read it once and there are pages coming loose.

Come on, RCA! This is meant to be your highest tribute to America's greatest composer, and you aren't exactly giving it away. You could have used better binding and real jewel cases, sold it at the same price, and still profited handsomely. Shame on you!

Unparalleled music - cheap packaging.......2000-02-16

RCA got a lot right with this set: the music - all 24 cds worth - is amazing, the remastering of the recordings from the 30s and40s is astonishing, and the lavishly illustrated booklet provides a comprehensive overview of the Duke's career.

The one thing that RCA got wrong, however, was the packaging of the individual cds. Each disc is enclosed in a cheap, flimsy, cardboard sleeve instead of in a jewel box. You can't get a disc out of its cardboard prison without reaching in and getting your fingerprints all over it . You can't store your new Ellington cds with the rest of your collection, because the sleeves won't fit in your cd shelf, nor will they stand up straight like a jewel box will. Even if you do stack them at the end of your row of normal cds, you still have to sort through them to find the disc you want, because you can't read the spine like you can on a normal jewel box. If you are spending this kind of money to buy a box set, I suspect that your interest in the Duke will last for a lifetime. I guarantee that the cheap cardboard sleeves in this set won't. If you are spending this kind of money to buy a box set, you shouldn't have to buy 24 empty jewel boxes to preserve your investment. That's what I plan to do, however. I suspect that many others will do the same.

Music CD:

1. Giant Steps ~ John Coltrane
2. The Seventh Quadrant ~ Gary Thomas
3. Chasin' the Jazz Gone By ~ Five Corners Quinted
4. Canyon Lady ~ Joe Henderson
5. Go West, Man! ~ Quincy Jones
6. Live in 1937 ~ Benny Goodman Trio & Quartet
7. Tea Time ~ Lucky Thompson
8. Black Pastels ~ Hank Roberts
9. On My Own ~ Jack Sheldon and Ross Tompkins
10. The Classic Jazz Quartet ~ Classic Jazz Quartet

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event): The Final World Front ~ Busta Rhymes

Sol-fa ~ Asian Kung-Fu Generation

Songs Of The Alchemist ~ Aurah

Introducing the Telepathic Butterflies ~ Telepathic Butterflies

Plain Sweeping Themes for the Unprepared ~ Monroe Mustang

Salient ~ Blue Apple Boy

Guilty ~ Rasmus

One Flew over the Cuckooz Nezt ~ B.G. Evil

The Thugz, Vol. 1 ~ MC Breed

Turfed Out ~ Killa Keise