Duke Ellington – The Complete Brunswick And Vocalion Recordings 1926 - 1931

Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington –The Complete Brunswick And Vocalion Recordings 1926 - 1931

1994

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Version Information

Label
Verve Records
Catalog number
0600753424681
Original year
1994
Version year
2013
Region
Europe
Format

3 x CD
Compilation
Reissue

Version notes

From the notes: "Released after the 1994 GRP box EARLY ELLINGTON (GRP 36402)"

56 page booklet included with full discography and notes by Steven Lasker.

Tracks 1-1, 1-2: this version
Tracks 1-3 to 1-5: this version (Track 1-4: East Coast pressings; Track 1-5: West Coast pressings)
Tracks 1-6, 1-7: this version (Track 1-7: Copyright application shows title as SONG FROM A COTTON FIELD)
Tracks 1-8, 1-9: this version
Track 1-10: this version
Track 1-11: this version
Tracks 1-12, 1-13: this version
Tracks 1-14, 1-17: this version
Track 1-15: this version
Track 1-16: this version (West Coast error pressings only; these are labelled "DON'T MESS AROUND WITH ME" by the HOTSY TOTSY GANG)
Tracks 1-18, 1-19: this version
Tracks 1-20, 1-22: this version
Track 1-21: this version
Tracks 2-1, 2-5: this version
Track 2-2: this version and/or this version
Tracks 2-3, 2-4: this version
Tracks 2-6, 2-7: this version
Tracks 2-8, 2-9: this version (Track 2-9: Copyright application show title as THAT JUNGLE JAMBOREE)
Tracks 2-10, 2-11: this version
Tracks 2-12, 2-13: this version
Tracks 2-14 to 2-16: Vo 15843
Track 2-17: this version
Tracks 2-18, 3-5, 3-9: this version (Track 2-18: This title was recorded as OKLAHOMA STUFF)
Tracks 2-19, 3-2: this version
Tracks 2-20, 3-10: this version
Track 2-21: previously unreleased take
Track 2-22: this version
Tracks 3-1, 3-6: this version (Track 3-6: Copyright application shows title as ADMIRATION; HAWAIIN IDYL)
Tracks 3-3, 3-11: this version
Track 3-4: this version
Tracks 3-7, 3-8: this version
Tracks 3-12, 3-13: this version (Track 3-13: Brunswick 4952 was initially released with title shown as DREAMY BLUES)
Tracks 3-14, 3-15: this version
Track 3-16: this version
Tracks 3-17, 3-18: this version
Tracks 3-19, 3-23: this version
Tracks 3-20, 3-21: this version
Track 3-22: this version

Tracklist

1926-28

1-1.East St. Louis Toodle-o [1st Version] - Duke Ellington And His Kentucky Club Orchestra2:51
1-2.Birmingham Breakdown [1st Version] - Duke Ellington And His Kentucky Club Orchestra2:44
1-3.Immigration Blues - Duke Ellington And His Kentucky Club Orchestra2:59
1-4.The Creeper [1st Take] - Duke Ellington And His Kentucky Club Orchestra2:48
1-5.The Creeper [2nd Take] - Duke Ellington And His Kentucky Club Orchestra2:46
1-6.New Orleans Low-Down - Duke Ellington And His Kentucky Club Orchestra2:57
1-7.Song Of The Cotton Field - Duke Ellington And His Kentucky Club Orchestra2:57
1-8.Birmingham Breakdown [2nd Version] - Duke Ellington And His Kentucky Club Orchestra2:38
1-9.East St. Louis Toodle-o [2nd Version] - Duke Ellington And His Kentucky Club Orchestra2:59
1-10.Black And Tan Fantasy - The Washingtonians3:16
1-11.Soliloquy - Traymore Orchestra3:06
1-12.Red Hot Band - Duke Ellington And His Cotton Club Orchestra2:52
1-13.Doin' The Frog - Duke Ellington And His Cotton Club Orchestra3:07
1-14.Take It Easy - The Washingtonians2:39
1-15.Jubilee Stomp - Duke Ellington And His Cotton Club Orchestra2:43
1-16.Black Beauty [1st Take] - The Hotsy Totsy Gang3:05
1-17.Black Beauty [2nd Take] - The Washingtonians3:11
1-18.Yellow Dog Blues - Duke Ellington And His Orchestra2:55
1-19.Tishomingo Blues - Duke Ellington And His Orchestra2:58
1-20.Awful Sad - Duke Ellington And His Cotton Club Orchestra3:15
1-21.The Mooche - Duke Ellington And His Cotton Club Orchestra3:10
1-22.Louisiana - Duke Ellington And His Cotton Club Orchestra3:01

1929

2-1.Doin' The Voom Voom - The Jungle Band3:08
2-2.Tiger Rag - Part I [Take A] - The Jungle Band2:52
2-3.Tiger Rag - Part I [Take B] - The Jungle Band2:51
2-4.Tiger Rag - Part II - The Jungle Band2:51
2-5.Rent Party Blues - The Jungle Band3:24
2-6.Paducah - The Jungle Band2:29
2-7.Harlem Flat Blues - The Jungle Band3:07
2-8.(What Did I Do To Be So) Black And Blue - The Jungle Band3:27
2-9.Jungle Jamboree - The Jungle Band2:44
2-10.Ain't Misbehavin' - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Accompanied By Irving Mills And His Hotsy Totsy Gang3:18
2-11.Doin' The New Low Down - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Accompanied By Irving Mills And His Hotsy Totsy Gang3:03
2-12.Jolly Wog - The Jungle Band3:02
2-13.Jazz Convulsions - The Jungle Band2:49
2-14.Six Or Seven Times [Take A Or B] - The Six Jolly Jesters3:05
2-15.Six Or Seven Times [Take B Or A] - The Six Jolly Jesters3:00
2-16.Goin' Nuts - The Six Jolly Jesters2:31
2-17.Oklahoma Stomp [Take A] - The Six Jolly Jesters2:44
2-18.Oklahoma Stomp [Take B] - The Six Jolly Jesters2:40
2-19.Sweet Mama - The Jungle Band3:07
2-20.Wall Street Wail [Take A] - The Jungle Band2:56
2-21.Wall Street Wail [Take B] - The Jungle Band2:58
2-22.Cincinnati Daddy - The Jungle Band3:21

1930-31

3-1.Maori (A Samoan Dance) [1st Version] - The Jungle Band3:07
3-2.When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) [Take A] - The Jungle Band3:03
3-3.When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You) [Take B] - The Jungle Band3:03
3-4.Maori (A Samoan Dance) [2nd Version - Take A] - The Jungle Band2:58
3-5.Maori (A Samoan Dance) [2nd Version - Take B] - The Jungle Band3:03
3-6.Admiration - The Jungle Band3:07
3-7.Double Check Stomp - The Jungle Band2:50
3-8.Accordion Joe [Take A] - The Jungle Band2:56
3-9.Accordion Joe [Take B] - The Jungle Band2:57
3-10.Cotton Club Stomp [Take A] - The Jungle Band2:50
3-11.Cotton Club Stomp [Take B] - The Jungle Band2:53
3-12.Runnin' Wild! - The Jungle Band2:42
3-13.Mood Indigo - The Jungle Band2:55
3-14.Home Again Blues - The Jungle Band2:57
3-15.Wang-Wang Blues - The Jungle Band2:59
3-16.Rockin' Chair - Earl Jackson And His Musical Champions3:07
3-17.Rockin' In Rhythm - The Jungle Band2:59
3-18.Twelfth Street Rag - The Jungle Band2:57
3-19.The Peanut Vendor - Earl Jackson And His Musical Champions3:16
3-20.Creole Rhapsody - Part 1 - The Jungle Band3:07
3-21.Creole Rhapsody - Part 2 [Take A] - The Jungle Band3:18
3-22.Creole Rhapsody - Part 2 [Take AA] - Duke Ellington And His Orchestra2:52
3-23.Is That Religion? - Earl Jackson And His Musical Champions2:20

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