Tracklist

# Title Rating Length
  CD 1
11 Christopher Columbus 3:07
22 Let's Get Together 2:41
33 Goodbye 3:09
44 Chant of the Weed 3:27
55 I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You 3:25
66 One O'Clock Jump 7:25
77 Tuxedo Junction 3:31
88 Ciribiribin 3:31
99 It's a Lonesome Old Town When You're Not Around 2:25
1010 Minnie the Moocher 2:51
1111 Sentimental Journey 2:32
1212 When It's Sleepy Time Down South 3:20
1313 For Dancers Only 3:08
1414 Rhapsody in Blue 4:52
1515 Contrasts 2:48
1616 Sleep 2:49
1717 Don't Get Around Much Anymore 2:38
1818 Auld Lang Syne 2:23
1919 The Midnight Sun Will Never Set 3:10
2020 Woodchopper's Ball 3:18
2121 Artistry in Rhythm 3:20
2222 Smoke Rings 2:56
2323 The Waltz You Saved for Me 2:31
2424 Cherokee 2:57
  CD 2
11 Afro-Bossa
4:24
22 Purple Gazelle
2:44
33 Absinthe
3:34
44 Moonbow
2:34
55 Sempre amoré
3:16
66 Caliné (Silk Lace)
2:33
77 Tigress
3:07
88 Angu
2:42
99 Volupté
2:45
1010 Bonga
2:51
1111 Pyramid
3:05
1212 Eighth Veil
2:50
1313 Resume #1 3:16
1414 Resume #2 3:50
1515 Tricky's Licks 3:21
1616 Blues in C 3:57
1717 Limbo Jazz 5:29
1818 Pretty Little One 4:21
1919 String Along With Strings 6:29
2020 The Feeling of Jazz 3:23
  CD 3
11 Take the A Train 4:25
22 In a Sentimental Mood 3:47
33 Don't Get Around Much Anymore 3:58
44 Day Dream 3:13
55 Cotton Tail 4:41
66 Night Creature (First Movement): Blind Bug 4:08
77 Night Creature (Second Movement): Stalking Monster 7:52
88 Night Creature (Third Movement): Dazzling Creature 4:02
99 Non-Violent Integration 5:28
1010 La Scala, She Too Pretty to Be Blue 6:14
1111 Harlem 14:05
  CD 4
11 Hello, Dolly! 2:08
22 Call Me Irresponsible 3:19
33 Fly Me to the Moon
2:31
44 So Little Time 3:04
55 Danke Schoen 2:36
66 More 2:57
77 The Second Time Around 3:44
88 Never on Sunday 3:55
99 I Left My Heart in San Francisco 3:06
1010 Blowin' in the Wind 2:28
1111 Stranger on the Shore 2:52
1212 Red Roses for a Blue Lady 3:40
1313 Charade 2:41
1414 People 3:23
1515 All My Lovin'
3:25
1616 A Beautiful Friendship
2:47
1717 I Want to Hold Your Hand
2:05
1818 Days of Wine and Roses 3:24
1919 I Can't Stop Loving You 3:57
2020 The Good Life 3:16
2121 Satin Doll 2:31
2222 Moon River
2:43
2323 Ellington '66 2:32
  CD 5
11 A Spoonful of Sugar 3:12
22 Chim Chim Cheree 2:52
33 Feed the Birds 3:42
44 Let's Go Fly a Kite 2:31
55 Stay Awake 2:29
66 I Love to Laugh 2:30
77 Jolly Holiday 3:04
88 Sister Suffragette 3:05
99 The Perfect Nanny 4:08
1010 Step in Time 2:46
1111 The Life I Lead 3:43
1212 Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 2:28
1313 Island Virgin 4:08
1414 Virgin Jungle 3:46
1515 Fiddler on the Diddle 3:14
1616 Jungle Kitty 3:00
1717 Things Ain't What They Used to Be 2:57
1818 Big Fat Alice's Blues 3:57
1919 Chelsea Bridge 3:47
2020 The Opener 2:48
2121 Mysterious Chick 3:17
2222 Barefoot Stomper 2:53
2323 Fade Up 3:38

Relationships

alto saxophone:
Johnny Hodges (tracks 2.1–2.12, 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
alto saxophone and clarinet:
Russell Procope (tracks 2.1–2.12, 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
baritone saxophone and clarinet:
Harry Carney (tracks 2.1–2.12)
bass:
John Lamb (tracks 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
Major Holley (track 4.3)
Ernie Shepard (tracks 2.1–2.12)
bass trombone:
Chuck Connors (tracks 2.1–2.12, 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
clarinet and tenor saxophone:
Jimmy Hamilton (US jazz clarinettist/saxophonist, arranger, composer) (tracks 2.1–2.12, 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
composer:
Duke Ellington (put releases under "Duke Ellington & His Orchestra" instead) (tracks 2.1, 2.6)
Donald Kahn (track 4.16)
Henry Mancini (track 4.22)
Bart Howard (1954) (track 4.3)
cornet:
Ray Nance (tracks 2.1–2.12)
drums:
Sam Woodyard (tracks 2.1–2.12, 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
lyricist:
Bart Howard (track 4.3)
Johnny Mercer (track 4.22)
Stanley Styne (track 4.16)
piano:
Duke Ellington (put releases under "Duke Ellington & His Orchestra" instead) (tracks 2.1–2.2, 2.4–2.7, 2.9–2.11, 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
Billy Strayhorn (tracks 2.3, 2.8)
tenor saxophone:
Harry Carney (tracks 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
Paul Gonsalves (tracks 2.1–2.12, 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
trombone:
Lawrence Brown (jazz trombonist) (tracks 2.1–2.12, 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
Buster Cooper (tracks 2.1–2.12, 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
trumpet:
William "Cat" Anderson (tracks 2.1–2.12, 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
Roy Burrowes (tracks 2.1–2.12)
Mercer Ellington (tracks 4.15, 4.22)
Rolf Ericson (track 4.3)
Herb Jones (tracks 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
Ray Nance (tracks 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
Cootie Williams (tracks 2.1–2.12, 4.3, 4.15–4.17, 4.22)
writer:
John Lennon (tracks 4.15, 4.17)
Paul McCartney (tracks 4.15, 4.17)
ASIN:
cover recording of:
A Beautiful Friendship (track 4.16)
All My Loving (track 4.15)
Moon River (track 4.22)
recording of:
Afro-Bossa (Bula) (track 2.1)
Caliné (Silk Lace) (track 2.6)