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	DUKE ELLINGTON & BILLY STRAYHORN Swing Masters Cottontail (1969 UK 12-track stereo issue of the 1963 LP, featuring piano duets played by Ellington and Strayhorn. This longplayer turned out to be one of the few places where these two musical milestone-makers could be found in piano interplay, and is therefore both a musically fascinating and a historical document, fully laminated picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimal shelfwear & the vinyl remains near 'as new' with few signs of play Tracklisting: )��01. Cottontail 02. C Jam Blues 03. Flamingo 04. Bang-Up Blues 05. Tonk 06. Johnny Come Lately 07. In A Blue Summer Garden 08. Great Times 09. Perdido 10. Take The 'A' Train 11. Oscalypso 12. Blues For Blanton
	DUKE ELLINGTON Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie & Featuring Sarah Vaughan (1965 UK 4-track solid cente 7" EP, featuring It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream, Tulip Or Turnip, Time After Time & Salt Peanuts, front laminated flipback picture sleeve. The sleeve shows little wear & the vinyl is Excellent with few signs of play ARC71)
	DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA Masterpieces By Ellington (Pure Pleasure Analogue limited edition mono 4-track LP pressed on 180-gram vinyl, remastered by Ray Staff at AIR Mastering, London. Originally released in 1951, Masterpieces By Ellington shines from an astonishingly brief period of history that gave the recording industry two of its greatest achievements � the introduction of magnetic tape recording and the 33RPM long-playing record. The four selections contained he Tracklisting: re catapulted the maestro Ellington into the LP era, as the great composer/arranger/pianist and his matchless orchestra took full advantage of the possibilities afforded by magnetic tape recording and the still-new LP to, for the first time, capture uncut concert arrangements of their signature songs. Gatefold picture sleeve with original illustrated cover artwork, hype sticker & factory sealed. Recommended)��When Ellington went into the studio in 1950 to record the longer tracks on this LP, his orchestra was a bridge between its late-1940's configuration (the 5-man trumpet section) and its mid-1950's personnel. The sax section had settled into the form it would have for most of the ensuing two decades (old-timers Hodges and Carney and newcomers Procope, Hamilton and Gonsalves); the trombone section had long-timer Lawrence Brown as well as Tyree Glenn and newcomer Quentin Jackson; and the drummer was still Sonny Greer, who had anchored the rhythm section since the beginning. Greer would retire at the end of the year, Hodges would defect for two years, Brown and Glenn would leave; Louis Bellson and Cat Anderson would join up and Ellington would begin to re-form. Ellington's orchestra from 1953 on would be a great, swinging and sensitive one, but it would not make the same lush sound that this one did. The arrangements and orchestrations all bear the hallmarks of Ellington's collaboration with Billy Strayhorn in the late 1940's: they are lush, symphonic, impressionistic, and densely (and adventurously) harmonic. "Mood Indigo", in particular, is a 15-minute tone-poem with shifting colors and key relationships as Ellington and Strayhorn bring the melody through a wide variety of guises, from Glenn's wah-wah trombone solo to Shorty Baker's lyrical waltz to orchestral and piano passages which do homage to the influence which Ravel and Stravinsky had on both of them. Great solos abound here and on the other tracks, most notably from Hodges, Brown, Hamilton, Gonsalves, Carney, trumpeters Baker and Ray Nance, and (most probably) Billy Strayhorn on piano, especially in "Mood Indigo" "The Tattooed Bride" is the only new piece from the original "Masterpieces by Ellington" LP, and it is a beauty. The others of the original tracks -- "Sophistocated Lady" and "Solitude" -- are not laid out as inventively in their harmonics or structure. Of the group, "Solitude" is perhaps the weakest, but this is a relative term. Ellington would go on to pen many more extended, symphonic works, but none would have quite the multicolored, impressionistic tone-pallate that these do. And Strayhorn's presence would not be as pronounced in those future works as it is here: the orchestration and harmonies in particular bear his mark. These are masterpieces indeed: great works of art by two of our greatest composers/orchestrators, and played by one of the greatest orchestras in Afro-American music. Andrew R. Weiss Side A 1. Mood Indigo 2. Sophisticated Lady Side B 1. The Tattooed Bride 2. Solitude Personnel: Duke Ellington, piano / Billy Strayhorn, piano/ Mercer Ellington, flugelhorn / Cat Anderson, Andrew Ford, Harold Baker, Nelson Williams, Ray Nance, trumpets / Quentin Jackson, Tyree Glenn, Lawrence Brown, trombones / Johnny Hodges, alto saxophone / Paul Gonsalves, tenor saxophone / Jimmy Hamilton, clarinet / Russell Procope, clarinet & alto saxophone /Wendell Marshall, bass /Sonny Greer, drums / Yvonne, vocals Recorded December 19th 1950
	DUKE ELLINGTON/ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Anatomy Of A Murder (2022 UK/EU limited edition 13-track stereo LP pressed on 180-gram audiophile black vinyl, the multiple Grammy award winning score to the classic 1959 movie featuring music composed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Picture sleeve replicating the original cover artwork designed by Saul Bass, hype sticker and clear resealable outer. Recommended) Tracklisting: The 1959 courtroom crime drama classic Anatomy of a Murder, directed by Otto Preminger, is based on the best-selling homonymous novel written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver. The film was one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to address sex and rape in graphic terms. Its score is composed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. It won three Grammy Awards - Best Performance by a Dance Band, Best Musical Composition First Recorded and Released in 1959, and Best Sound Track Album. SIDE A 1. MAIN TITLE AND ANATOMY OF A MURDER (FEATURING - JIMMY HAMILTON, RAY NANCE) 2. FLIRTIBIRD (FEATURING - JOHNNY HODGES) 3. WAY EARLY SUBTONE (FEATURING - RUSSELL PROCOPE) 4. HERO TO ZERO (FEATURING - HARRY CARNEY, PAUL GONSALVES) 5. LOW KEY LIGHTLY (FEATURING - RAY NANCE) 6. HAPPY ANATOMY (FEATURING - CLARK TERRY, PAUL GONSALVES) SIDE B 1. MIDNIGHT INDIGO 2. ALMOST CRIED (FEATURING - SHORTY BAKER*) 3. SUNSWEPT SUNDAY (FEATURING - JIMMY HAMILTON) 4. GRACE VALSE 2:28 5. HAPPY ANATOMY (FEATURING - THE P. I. FIVE) 6. HAUPE (FEATURING - JOHNNY HODGES) 7. UPPER AND OUTEST
	DUKE ELLINGTON/ BILLY STRAYHORN/ TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker Suite (Well, that's what it says on the front of the sleeve, although we suspect Mr Tchaikovsky was there in spirit only, though he did give his permission for this after meeting Dukein Las Vegas. This amazing 1960 UK mono 9-track LP includes solo spots from Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonzalves, Ray Nance & Jimmy Hodges. The front laminated flipback sleeve is Excellent [tiny paper fracture in top flipback] & the vinyl is nice & c Tracklisting: lean & in Excellent condition with very little play BBL7418)��Overture Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance Of The Reed Pipes) Peanut Brittle Brigade (March) Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy) Entr'acte The Volga Vouty (Russian Dance) Chinoiserie (Chinese Dance) Dance Of The Floreadores (Waltz Of The Flowers) Arabesque Cookie (Arabian Dance)
	DUKE ELLINGTON Far East Suite (1972 UK orange label issue of the 1967 9-track stereo LP, starring Harry Carney, Johnny Hodges, Paul Gonsalves & Cat Anderson at the top of their game. Includes the memorable Isfahan, Blue Pepper [with big drum breaks, would you believe!], the majestic Ad Lib On Nippon & more. The front laminated picture sleeve is Excellent with little shelf wear & the vinyl appears barely played. A masterpiece from Sir Duke LSA3063) Tracklisting: 1. Tourist Point Of View 2. Bluebird Of Delhi 3. Isfahan 4. Depk 5. Mount Harissa 6. Blue Pepper 7. Agra 8. Amad 9. Ad Lib On Nippon

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