Title: Volume 2: From the Cotton Club to Sweden
Artist: Duke Ellington
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065903626
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 2007-09-25
Number of Discs: 4

As well as the Duke's skills as pianist, composer and arranger, key sidemen, such as 'Bubber' Miley, Joe 'Tricky Sam' Nanton and Johnny Hodges were recognised as major jazz soloists. This collection spans March 1929 to February 1940, a key period for jazz in general and Ellington in particular. We concentrate on the orchestra's performances, mainly instrumental, along with some featuring singer Ivie Anderson. In late 1929, there had been a major change: Bubber Miley had gone. In his place came 'Cootie' Williams, a powerful blues player in his own right. In July 1929, the Ellington Orchestra provided the music for a Ziegfeld revue, 'Showgirl', which featured the debut of George Gershwin's, An American In Paris. The revue quickly closed, panned by critics. Ziegfeld said of Duke's contribution, "... The finest exponents of syncopated music in existence. Irving Berlin went mad about them and some of the best exponents of modern music who have heard them almost jumped out of their seats with excitement over their extraordinary harmonies and exciting rhythms." Shortly after 'Showgirl' closed, the Ellington Orchestra made it's screen debut in 'Black And Tan Fantasy', a short film. A year later, the band spent their summer break in Hollywood, filming 'Check And Double Checks' featuring radio stars Amos 'n' Andy, character's played by two white actors who appeared in blackface. The best thing about the film was the number Double Check Stomps heard here in the studio version. In February 1931, Ellington left the Cotton Club. No longer restricted to serving the club's floorshows, Ellington could explore wider musical horizons. Recorded in two parts and released as a double-sided 12 inch 78 rpm disc, Creole Rhapsody, from June 1931, represented his most ambitious work to date. From 1943 until 1948, the Ellington Band performed annually at Carnegie Hall - confirmation, if any were needed, that the Duke and his band had reached the pinnacle of showbiz success

Tracks:
1.1 Rent Party Blues
1.2 Paducah
1.3 Harlem Flat Blues
1.4 Hot Feet
1.5 Sloppy Joe
1.6 Stevedore Stomp
1.7 Cotton Club Stomp
1.8 Arabian Lover
1.9 Saratoga Swing
1.10 Jungle Jamboree
1.11 Snake Hip Dance
1.12 Jazz Convulsions
1.13 Duke Steps Out
1.14 Haunted Nights
1.15 Lazy Duke
1.16 Blues of the Vagabond
1.17 When You're Smiling
1.18 Maori
1.19 Double Check Stomp
1.20 Cotton Club Stomp
1.21 Jungle Nights in Harlem
1.22 Shout 'Em Aunt Tillie
1.23 Ring Dem Bells
1.24 Old Man Blues
1.25 Big House Blues
2.1 Rocky Mountain Blues
2.2 Mood Indigo
2.3 Rockin' in Rhythm
2.4 Creole Rhapsody
2.5 Creole Rhapsody
2.6 Mystery Song
2.7 It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
2.8 Jazz Cocktail
2.9 Delta Bound
2.10 Diga Diga Doo
2.11 I Can't Give You Anything But Love
2.12 Eerie Moan
2.13 Merry Go Round
2.14 Sophisticated Lady
2.15 I've Got the World Upon a String
2.16 Down a Carolina Lane
2.17 Slippery Horn
2.18 Drop Me Off at Harlem
2.19 Get Yourself a New Broom (And Sweep the Blues Away)
2.20 Bundle of Blues
2.21 Stormy Weather
2.22 Hyde Park
2.23 Ain't Misbehavin'
2.24 Jive Stomp
2.25 In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
3.1 Daybreak Express
3.2 Solitude
3.3 Troubled Waters
3.4 Moonglow
3.5 In a Sentimental Mood
3.6 Merry Go Round
3.7 Clarinet Lament (Barney's Concerto)
3.8 Echoes of Harlem (Cootie's Concerto)
3.9 Kissin' My Baby Goodnight
3.10 Oh Babe Maybe Someday
3.11 In a Jam
3.12 I've Got to Be a Rug Cutter
3.13 Caravan
3.14 All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
3.15 Diminuendo in Blue
3.16 Crescendo in Blue
3.17 Gal from Joe's
3.18 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
3.19 Braggin' in Brass
3.20 I'm Slappin' Seventh Avenue (With the Sole of My Shoe)
3.21 You Gave Me the Gate (And I'm Swingin')
3.22 Rose of the Rio Grande
3.23 When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
3.24 Gypsy Without a Song
3.25 Blues Serenade
4.1 Old King Dooji
4.2 Pussy Willow
4.3 Subtle Lament
4.4 Smorgasbord and Schnapps
4.5 Portrait of the Lion
4.6 Solid Old Man
4.7 Cotton Club Stomp
4.8 Doin' the Voom Voom
4.9 Way Low
4.10 Serenade to Sweden
4.11 In a Mizz
4.12 I'm Checkin' Out Goo'm Bye
4.13 You Can Count on Me
4.14 Bouncin' Buoyancy
4.15 Sergeant Was Shy
4.16 Grievin'
4.17 Little Posey
4.18 I've Never Felt This Way Before
4.19 Grievin'
4.20 Tootin' Through the Root
4.21 Weely (A Portrait of Billy Strayhorn)
4.22 Killin' Myself
4.23 Your Love Has Faded
4.24 Country Girl
4.25 Solitude

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