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 The Centenary Collection

Name:  The Centenary Collection
Artist: Duke Ellington
Styles: 5 - B - Jazz - S
Media: Audio CD
Features: Box set
Release Date: 8 February 1999
Label: Pulse
  
UPC Catalogue No: 5029575643325
Amazon Sales Ranking: 4718
Number of Discs: 4

Tracks
 1  Saturday night function
 2  Creole love call
 3  Cotton club stomp
 4  Black and tan fantasy
 5  Snake hip dance
 6  Jubilee stomp
 7  Blues with a feelin'
 8  Doing the voom voom
 9  Black beauty
 10  Flaming youth
 11  Duke steps out
 12  I must have that man
 13  East St Louis toodle oo
 14  Dicty glide
 15  Stevedore stomp
 16  Misty morning
 17  Jazz convulsions
 18  Sartoga swing
 19  Jungle jamboree
 20  Awful sad
 21  Washington wabble
 22  Syncopated shuffle
 23  Rent party blues
 24  Hot and bothered
 25  Mooche
 26  Drop me off at Harlem
 27  Mood indigo
 28  It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got that swing)
 29  Sophisticated lady
 30  Rockin' in rhythm
 31  Moonglow
 32  Stompy jones
 33  Double check stomp
 34  Rocky mountain blues
 35  Swing low sweet chariot
 36  Lightnin'
 37  Old man blues
 38  Limehouse blues
 39  Tough truckin'
 40  Harlem speaks
 41  In a sentimental mood
 42  Blue Harlem
 43  Showboat shuffle
 44  Solitude
 45  Slippery horn
 46  Merry go round
 47  Delta serenade
 48  Ring dem bells
 49  In the shade of the old apple tree
 50  Daybreak express
 51  Caravan
 52  I let a song go out of my heart
 53  Clarinet lament (Barney's concerto)
 54  Echoes of harlem (Cootie's concerto)
 55  Exposition swing
 56  Gypsy without a song
 57  Battle of swing le hot jazz
 58  Prelude to a kiss
 59  Gal from Joe's
 60  Azure
 61  Diminuendo in blue
 62  Crescendo in blue
 63  Uptown downbeat
 64  Harmony in Harlem
 65  Steppin' into swing society
 66  Braggin' in brass
 67  Portrait of the lion
 68  Boy meets horn
 69  Riding on a blue note
 70  Dinah's in a jam
 71  Little posey
 72  Grevin'
 73  Trumpet in spades (Rex's concerto)
 74  Sergeant was shy
 75  Tootin' through the roof
 76  Take the 'A' train
 77  Never no lament don't get around much any more
 78  Perdido
 79  C jam blues
 80  Cotton tail
 81  In a mellow tone
 82  Jack the bear
 83  Ko ko
 84  Congo brava
 85  Concerto for Cootie (do nothing till you hear from me)
 86  All too soon
 87  Bojangles (portrait of Bill Robinson)
 88  Portrait of Bert Williams
 89  Harlem air shaft
 90  Rumpus in Richmond
 91  Sepia panorama
 92  Just a sittin' and a rockin'
 93  Warm valley
 94  Main stem
 95  Blue serge
 96  Midriff
 97  Chelsea Bridge
 98  Stomp look and listen
 99  I got it bad and that ain't good
 100  Things ain't what they used to be

Customer Reviews
 
Bargain selection Rating: 5.0

This is a well chosen selection of the highlights of Ellington's recordings up to 1945. Just about all of his best known tracks from the first half of his career are here. The transfers are good - not as good as for example the disks of McKinney's Cotton Pickers on the Frog label - but more than good enough for getting to know the music. Recording dates, matrix numbers and personnel listings are given, but no notes or biography. If you want just one Ellington disc, this is the one to buy - you will get four discs (100 tracks) for the price of one. Almost all the compositions are by Ellington himself, often in collaboration with one of his musicians. The fourth CD is mostly tracks by the 1940s band with Blanton and Webster, which many consider to be Ellington's greatest period. The competition is the Proper Box covering much the same period. That costs more but has a booklet with biographical details.

 
Wonderful Jazz in a Box - Unbeatable value too! Rating: 5.0

This CD Box Set is a brilliant collection of jazz from one of the greatest of bands and THE best jazz composer of the 20th century. Classic after classic track is featured here, from the soft and smooth, to many that really spark and sizzle with the heat.

A collection like this - you just can't beat that - 100 tracks for less than a regular price CD, containing many of the master's best work. What's not to like?

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