DUKE ELLINGTON THE CENTENNIAL EDITION [Part 5]
The Last Recordings (1966-1973) 4 CDs
DISC 21 – 24
INCLUDING: THE FAR EAST SUITE, TRIBUTE TO BILLY STRAYHORN AND DUKE’S FINAL CONCERT and also re makes of his ‘60’s classics.
Label: RCA Legacy
Format:Mp3@320



Disc 21: Far East Suite



1 Tourist Point of View [Take 7] 5:08
2 Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) [Take 12] 3:17
3 Isfahan [Take 1] 4:02
4 Depk 2:38
5 Mount Harissa 7:40
6 Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) 2:59
7 Agra 2:35
8 Amad [Take 3] 4:26
9 Ad Lib on Nippon 11:34
10 Tourist Point of View [Take 5] 4:57
11 Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) [Take 8] 3:08
12 Isfahan [Take 2] 4:10
13 Amad [Take 5] 4:15

DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Cootie Williams, Cat Anderson, Herbie Jones, Mercer Ellington(t); Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper(tb); Chuck Connors(btb); Jimmy Hamilton(cl,ts); Russell Procope (cl,as); Johnny Hodges(as); Paul Gonsalves(ts); Harry Carney(cl,bcl,as,bar); Duke Ellington(p); John Lamb(sb); Rufus Jones(d)

New York City, NY 19,20 & 21 December 1966 RCA recording session

Disc 22

1 Take the "A" Train 4:37
2 I Got It Bad (And That Ain'tGood) 2:36
3 Perdido 3:13
4 Mood Indigo 5:09
5 Black and Tan Fantasy 5:10
6 The Twitch 3:09
7 Solitude 3:34
8 Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me 1:53
9 The Mooche 5:34
10 Sophisticated Lady 3:01
11 Creole Love Call 3:55
12 Caravan 5:25
13 Wings & Things 1:57
14 Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me 1:56
15 House of Lords 5:37
16 The Second Portrait of the Lion 4:11
17 Take the "A" Train 2:22
18 Caravan 4:38
19 Mood Indigo 2:55
20 Love Scene 2:24

Disc 23

1 The Mooche 5:23
2 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart 2:47
3 I'm Beginning to See the Light 2:39
4 Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me 2:45
5 Sophisticated Lady 3:21
6 Timon of Athens March 3:09
7 Solitude 3:00
8 I Got It Bad (And That Ain'tGood) 4:12
9 Satin Doll 2:33
10 Single Petal of a Rose 2:41
11 Snibor 4:13
12 Boo-Dah 3:26
13 Blood Count 4:16
14 U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group) 3:13
15 Charpoy 3:06
16 After All 3:51
17 The Intimacy of the Blues 2:57
18 Rain Check [Take 6] 4:35
19 Rain Check [Take 4] 5:22
20 Day Dream, 4:23
21 Rock Skippin' at the Blue Note 3:01

Duke Ellington ….. and His Mother Called Him Bill
(Tracks 11-21)


Disc 24

1 All Day Long 2:56
2 Lotus Blossom [Take 1] 3:54
3 Lotus Blossom 4:55
4 Smada [Take 3] 3:20
5 Smada [Take 4] 3:18
6 Midriff 4:34
7 My Little Brown Book 4:11
8 Ocht O'Clock Rock 2:21

Duke Ellomgton ….. and His Mother Called Him Bill
(Tracks 3-8 )



9 The Piano Player 3:05
10 Creole Love Call 4:28
11 Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know) 4:30
12 I Can't Get Started 5:57
13 New York, New York 3:05
14 Pitter Panther Patter 2:30
15 How High the Moon 2:15
16 Basin Street Blues 2:55
17 Tiger Rag … 3:55
18 Soso 3:45
19 Meditation 3:24
20 Mecuria, the Lion 4:01

Concert at the Congress Theatre released on the album "The Eastbourne Performance."



Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Johnny Coles, Mercer Ellington, Barrie Lee Hall, Money Johnson, t; Art Baron, Vince Prudente, tb; Chuck Connors, btb; Harold Minerve, as, fl; Russell Procope, as; Harold Ashby, ts, cl; Percy Marion, ts; Harry Carney, bs, cl, bcl; Duke Ellington, p; Joe Benjamin, b; Quentin White, d.
Recorded December 1, 1973. Eastbourne, England