Duke Ellington - 1994 - The Great Chicago Concerts

Tracklist: 

CD 1

November 10, 1946. Chicago.

Concert at the Civic Opera House. Django Reinhardt sits in!

Duke Elligton & His Orchestra: Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker, Shelton Hemphill, Taft Jordan, Ray Nance, t; Lawrence Brown, Wilbur DeParis, tb; Claude Jones, vtb; Russell Procope, as, cl; Johnny Hodges, as; Jimmy Hamilton, ts, cl; Al Sears, ts; Harry Carney, bs, cl; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Oscar Pettiford, b; Sonny Greer, d.

01. Ring Dem Bells

02. Jumpin' Punkins

03. Beale Street Blues

04. Memphis Blues

05. The Golden Feather

06. The Air Conditioned Jungle

07. A Very Unbooted Character

08. Sultry Sunset

THE DEEP SOUTH SUITE:

09. Magnolias Dripping With Molasses [The Deep South Suite]

10. Hearsay Or Orson Welles [The Deep South Suite]

11. Nobody Was Lookin' [The Deep South Suite]

12. Happy-Go-Lucky Local [The Deep South Suite]

13. Things Ain't What They Used To Be

14. Hiawatha

Django Reinhardt, g, sits in.

15. Ride Red Ride

16. A Blues Riff

17. Improvisation #2

18. Honeysuckle Rose

Django Reinhardt, g, sits out.

19. Blue Skies (Trumpet No End)

CD 2

January 20, 1946. Chicago.

Concert at the Civic Opera House.

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Cat Anderson, Bernard Flood, Shelton Hemphill, Taft Jordan, Francis Williams, t; Lawrence Brown, Wilbur DeParis, tb; Claude Jones, vtb; Otto Hardwick, Johnny Hodges, as; Jimmy Hamilton, ts, cl; Al Sears, ts; Harry Carney, bs; Duke Ellington, p; Fred Guy, g; Oscar Pettiford, b; Sonny Greer, d.

01. The Star Spangled Banner

02. In A Mellotone

03. Solid Old Man

04a. Come Sunday

04b. Work Song

05. Rugged Romeo

06. Circe

07. Dancers In Love

08. Coloratura

09. Frankie And Johnny

10 Caravan

11. Take The "A" Train

12. Mellow Ditty [A Tonal Group]

13. Fugue-A-Ditty [A Tonal Group]

14. Jam-A-Ditty (Concerto For Four Jazz Horns) [A Tonal Group]

15. Magenta Haze

16. Pitter Panther Patter

17. Suburbanite