Title: Capitol Sessions 1953-1955 Artist: Duke Ellington Release Date: 10/16/2006 Label: Definitive, Definitive Classics Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 8436006493614, 843600649361 Genre: Jazz Styles: Ballads, Standards Moods: Atmospheric, Lively, Lush, Poignant, Sentimental, Sophisticated, Stately, Sweet, Intimate, Light, Playful, Romantic, Soothing, Swaggering, Boisterous, Dramatic, Elegant, Freewheeling, Fun, Humorous, Literate, Passionate, Rollicking, Smooth, Theatrical, Warm, Bright, Carefree, Cheerful, Exuberant, Gentle, Nocturnal, Rousing, Soft, Spooky, Stylish, Ambitious, Amiable/Good-Natured, Confident, Party/Celebratory, Refined/Mannered, Reserved, Laid-Back/Mellow, Sensual, Joyous Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 4

1. Satin Doll
2. Without a Song
3. Cocktails for Two
4. My Old Flame
5. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
6. Ain't Nothin' Nothin' Baby Without You
7. Stormy Weather
8. Stardust
9. Three Little Words
10. Orson
11. Boo-Dah
12. Blossom
13. Ballin' the Blues
14. Warm Valley
15. Flamingo
16. Blue Jean Beguine
17. Liza
18. Who Knows
19. Retrospection
20. B Sharp Blues
21. Passion Flower
22. Dancers in Love
23. Reflections in D
24. Melancholia
25. Prelude to a Kiss
26. In a Sentimental Mood

1. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
2. All Too Soon
3. Janet
4. Give Me the Right
5. Is It a Sin? My Loving You
6. Basin Street Blues
7. Big Drag
8. Don't Ever Say Goodbye
9. Kinda Dukish
10. Montevideo
11. December Blue
12. I'm Just a Lucky So and So
13. It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream
14. What More Can I Say?
15. Rockin' in Rhythm
16. Ultra Deluxe
17. Flying Home
18. Blue Moon
19. Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'
20. Ultra Deluxe
21. Flying Home
22. What More Can I Say?
23. Serious Serenade
24. Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'

1. Honeysuckle Rose
2. Stompin' at the Savoy
3. Don't Ever Say Goodbye
4. Black and Tan Fantasy
5. Frivolous Banta
6. In the Mood
7. One O'Clock Jump
8. Things Ain't What They Used to Be
9. Happy Go-Lucky Local
10. Rockin' in Rhythm
11. Falling Like a Raindrop
12. All Day Long
13. Bunny Hop Mambo
14. Isle of Capri
15. C Jam Blues
16. Band Call
17. Gonna Tan Your Hide
18. Smile
19. Echo Tango
20. If I Give My Heart to You

1. Chile Bowl
2. Bakiff
3. Twelfth Street Rag Mambo
4. September Song
5. Caravan
6. La Virgen de La Macarena
7. Harlem Air Shaft
8. Look What I've Got for You
9. Commercial Time
10. Clarinet Melodrama
11. Theme for Trambean
12. Coquette
13. Serious Serenade
14. Body and Soul
15. Once in a Blue Mood
16. Lady Be Good
17. So Long
18. It Don't Mean a Thing

Year Type Label Catalog # 2007 CD Definitive Classics 11361 2006 CD Definitive 11361

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Definitive's 2006 release of an 88-track compendium of Duke Ellington's Capitol recordings dating from the years 1953-1955 illuminates a period during which the man who more than anyone else had perfected the art of big-band jazz during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s had to scuffle to maintain his jazz orchestra at a time when small combos and star vocalists were getting most of the gigs and recording contracts. It is therefore fitting, perhaps, that Ellington chose to record with a trio in between big-band sessions during December 1953, resulting in an album's worth of wonderful chamber jazz that appeared on the Capitol album Piano Reflections. Hearing that material presented in chronologic context with the big-band recordings of 1953-1955 is a special treat. The orchestra was packed with accomplished improvisers; its trumpeters included Clark Terry, Cat Anderson, Willie Cook, Ray Nance and Gerald Wilson, who also exercised his skills as an arranger. Britt Woodman and Juan Tizol anchored the trombone section with Quentin "Butter" Jackson. Reedmen included Jimmy Hamilton, Russell Procope, Paul Gonsalves, and Harry Carney. Vocals were delivered by Jimmy Grissom. The LP era was in full swing, allowing for extended performances of "Things Ain't What They Used to Be," "Basin Street Blues," "Flying Home," "In the Mood," "It Don't Mean a Thing," Ellington and Strayhorn's "Gonna Tan Your Hide" and Jimmy Hamilton's "Clarinet Melodrama." This rewarding collection also documents the Duke's unusual dalliance with tunes like "If I Give My Heart to You" (still closely associated with Doris Day), Russ Morgan's "So Long," the "Twelfth Street Rag Mambo" and Ray Anthony's "Bunny Hop Mambo." ~ arwulf arwulf, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alfred Cobbs Trombone Arthur Morton Liner Notes Billy Strayhorn Celeste, Piano Britt Woodman Trombone Butch Ballard Drums Cat Anderson Trumpet Clark Terry Trumpet Duke Ellington Piano (Electric), Piano Estudi Canó Artwork George Jean Trombone Gerald Wilson Trumpet, Arranger Harry Carney Clarinet, Sax (Baritone), Clarinet (Bass) Jimmy Grissom Violoncello Jimmy Hamilton Sax (Tenor), Clarinet Jimmy Woode Bass John Sanders Trombone Juan Tizol Trombone Miles Davis Author Oscar Pettiford Bass Paul Gonsalves Sax (Tenor) Quentin Jackson Trombone Ralph Collier Conga Ray Nance Violoncello, Viola, Trumpet Russell Procope Clarinet, Sax (Alto) Wendell Marshall Bass Willie Cook Trumpet