The Ultimate Jazz Archive Vol.145 – Duke Ellington [1941-1947] [2005]

01.Chelsea Boogie
02.What Am I Here For
03.Main Stem
04.Johnny Come Lately
05.The ‘C’ Jam Blues
06.Perdido
07.Moon Mist
08.I’m Beginning To See The Light
09.Carnegie Blues
10.Blue Cellophone
11.Mood To Be Wooed
12.The Mooche
13.Black And Tan Fantasy
14.It Don’t mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
15.In A Sentimental Mood
16.Things Ain’t What They Used To Be (Time’s A-Waistin’)
17.Magenta Haze
18.Blue Skies
19.Sultry Sunset
20.Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me
21.Park At 106th

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was the most prolific composer of the twentieth century in terms of both number of compositions and variety of forms. His development was one of the most spectacular in the history of music, underscored by more than fifty years of sustained achievement as an artist and an entertainer. He is considered by many to be America's greatest composer, bandleader, and recording artist.

The extent of Ellington's innovations helped to redefine the various forms in which he worked. He synthesized many of the elements of American music — the minstrel song, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley tunes, the blues, and American appropriations of the European music tradition — into a consistent style with which, though technically complex, has a directness and a simplicity of expression largely absent from the purported art music of the twentieth century. Ellington's first great achievements came in the three-minute song form, and he later wrote music for all kinds of settings: the ballroom, the comedy stage, the nightclub, the movie house, the theater, the concert hall, and the cathedral. His blues writing resulted in new conceptions of form, harmony, and melody, and he became the master of the romantic ballad and created numerous works that featured the great soloists in his jazz orchestra. --- pbs.org

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