The 1956-58 Small Group Recordings

• ... and His Mother Called Him Bill
• ... and His Mother Called Him Bill (Import)
• ... and His Mother Called Him Bill [US Bonus Tracks]
• 100 Anniversaire
• 12 Classics: Five Star Collection
• 16 Most Requested Songs
• 1929-1930
• 1933-1935
• 1935-1936
• 1936-1937
• 1937
• 1937, Vol. 2
• 1940, Vol. 2
• 1940-1941
• 1941
• 1947
• 1950-1951
• 1951
• 1952 Seattle Concert
• 1952-1960
• 1953, Vol. 2
• 1967 European Tour
• 1969: All-Star White House Tribute (Import)
• 70th Birthday Concert
• A Drum Is a Woman
• A Proper Introduction to Duke Ellington: Skin Deep (Import)
• Afro Bossa/Concert in the Virgin Islands
• Afro-Bossa
• Alhambra, 29 Octobre 1958
• All Star Road Band, Vol. 1
• America Swings: The Great Duke Ellington
• America Swings: The Great Duke Ellington
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Anatomy of a Murder
• At Basin Street East
• At Birdland 1952
• At Newport 1956 Complete
• At Newport 1956 Complete
• At The Cotton Club
• At the Cotton Club [BMG]
• At the Hollywood Empire: Original 1949 Transcript
• At the Hurricane 1943
• At the Rainbow Grill 1967
• Back to Back
• Back to Back
• Back to Back (Import)
• Back to Back [Universal Japan]
• Back to Back [Universal Japan]
• Battle of the Bands: Ellington Vs. Basie
• Berlin '65/Paris '67 (Import)
• Best
• Best Of
• Best of Duke Ellington
• Best of Duke Ellington [Universal]
• Best of Duke Ellington [Universal] (Import)
• Best of Ellington [Sony]
• Best of the California Concerts
• Best of the Forties, Vol. 1
• Best of the War Years
• Black, Brown and Beige
• Black, Brown and Beige
• Black, Brown and Beige
• Black, Brown and Beige
• Black, Brown and Beige
• Blue Harlem [Synergy]
• Blue Light/Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown
• Blue Note Nyc 8/6/52
• Blues & Ballads
• Blues in Orbit [Bonus Tracks]
• Blues in Orbit [Bonus Tracks]
• Blues in Orbit [Bonus Tracks]
• Capitol Sessions 1953-1955
• Carnegie Hall Concerts: 1943-1947 (Import)
• Centenary Celebration, Vol. 1-3
• Centenary Collection Carrying Case
• Centennial Salute
• Chaise Lounge: Symphony Lounge
• Classic Jazz Archive
• Cocktail Hour
• Cocktails for Two
• Complete Gus Wildi Recordings and More
• Complete Legendary Fargo Concert
• Complete Musicraft Recordings
• Complete Original American Decca Recordings
• Complete Prestige Carnegie Hall 1943-1944
• Complete Prestige Carnegie Hall 1946-1947
• Complete Standard Transcriptions
• Concert 1960
• Concert in the Virgin Islands
• Cool Rock
• Cornell University: Second Set
• Cotton Club Anthology: 1938
• Cotton Club Anthology: 1938
• Cotton Club Stomp [Disky]
• Cotton Club Stomp [Disky]
• Cotton Club Stomp: 1929-1932
• Cotton Club, Vol. 2: 1938
• Creole Rhapsody: Duke Ellington in the Thirties
• Della & The Duke (Import)
• Digital Duke
• Duke at Fargo 1940 Special 60t (Mini LP Sleeve)
• Duke at Tanglewood
• Duke at the Cotton Club
• Duke Ellington & His World Famous Orchestra (1946-1947)
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (Import)
• Duke Ellington : 1936-1937
• Duke Ellington : 1941
• Duke Ellington : Original Album Classics
• DUKE ELLINGTON : PORTRAIT OF (2CD)
• Duke Ellington [Highland]
• Duke Ellington [Platinum Disc]
• Duke Ellington and His Great Vocalists [Sony/Legacy]
• Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Vol. 1: 1943
• Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Vol. 2: 1943
• Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Vol. 3: 1943
• Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Vol. 4: 1943
• Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Vol. 5: 1943-1945
• Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
• Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
• Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
• Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
• Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
• Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
• Duke Ellington Christmas
• Duke Ellington Collection [Boxsets]
• Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
• Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
• Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
• Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins [Bonus Track]
• Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins [Bonus Track]
• Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins [Bonus Track]
• Duke Ellington Plays Mary Poppins
• Duke Ellington Presents
• Duke Ellington Presents
• Duke Ellington Presents
• Duke Ellington's Finest Hour
• Duke Ellington's Greatest
• Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session
• Duke Ellington, Vol. 1 & 2
• Duke Ellington, Vol. 1: Live
• Duke Ellington, Vol. 2 [Absord]
• Duke Ellington: Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Sessions
• Duke Ellington: Queenie Pie
• Duke Ellington: Three Suites
• Duke Ellington: Three Suites
• Duke of Jazz
• Duke! Three Portraits Of Ellington
• Duke's Mixture/At the Bal Masque
• Duke's Singing Ladies (Import)
• Early
• Early Ellington: The Complete Brunswick Recordings (1926-1931)
• Ebony Rhapsody: The Great Ellington Vocalists
• Ella & Duke at the Cote D'Azur
• Ella & Duke at the Cote D'Azur
• Ellington '65
• Ellington '66
• Ellington Uptown
• Ellington Uptown (Import)
• Ellington Uptown [Bonus Tracks]
• Ellington Uptown [Bonus Tracks]
• Ellington Uptown [Columbia] (Import)
• ELLINGTON,DUKE: COMPLETE ELLINGTON INDIG
• ELLINGTON,DUKE: DRUM IS A WOMAN
• ELLINGTON,DUKE: DUKE ELLINGTON
• Ellington,duke: Duke-columbia Yrs 1927-
• ELLINGTON,DUKE: IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD
• ELLINGTON,DUKE: VOL. 1-BRUNSWICK SESSION
• ELLINGTON,DUKE: VOLUME 6 TO 10
• En Concert Avec Europe 1: Theatre Des Champs Elysees, Paris, France (1965)
• Essential Ellington
• Eternal Ellington 1927-1959
• Falling In Love With Duke Ellington
• Far East Suite [Bonus Tracks]
• Fargo 1940, Vol. 1
• Featuring Paul Gonsalves
• Festival Session
• Festival Session
• Festival Session [Bonus Tracks] (Import)
• First Annual Connecticut Jazz Festival
• First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
• First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
• First Time! The Count Meets the Duke (Import)
• First Time! The Count Meets the Duke [Bonus Tracks]
• First Time: The Count Meets The Duke (Import)
• Forever Gold
• Four Symphonic Works
• From His Treasure Chest: 1965-1972
• Fundamentals
• Golden Era of Jazz, Vol. 6
• Good Old Vintage
• Great Times! Piano Duets with Billy Strayhorn (Import)
• Greatest Hits [CBS Special Products]
• Greatest Hits [CBS Special Products]
• Greatest Hits [Columbia/Legacy]
• Greatest Hits [RCA]
• Greatest Hits: Legend Series
• Greatest Hits: Priceless Collection
• Happy Birthday, Duke! the Birthday Sessions, Vol. 3
• Happy Birthday, Duke! the Birthday Sessions, Vol. 5
• Happy Birthday, Duke! The Birthday Sessions, Vols. 1-5
• Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown [Japan]
• Highlights from the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition, 1927-1973
• Historically Speaking/Duke Ellington Presents/Ellington 55 (Import)
• Historically Speaking: The Duke
• Historically Speaking: The Duke
• In Boston 1939-1940
• In Concert with Europe 1: Paris Jazz Concert
• In Small Bands
• In Sweden 1973
• In Sweden 1973
• In the Forties
• In the Mood With Duke Ellington
• In the Thirties, Vol. 2
• Incomparable Sir Duke
• Indigos
• Intimacy of the Blues (Import)
• Jack the Bear
• Jazz After Hours: Duke Ellington
• Jazz Caravan
• Jazz Caravan
• Jazz Cocktail
• Jazz Greatest Hits: The Great Ones
• Jazz Hits, Vol. 1
• Jazz Hits, Vol. 1
• Jazz Hour with Duke Ellington, Vol. 2: Jump for Joy
• Jazz Masters
• Jazz Moods: Hot
• Jazz Profile
• Jubilee Stomp [History]
• Jukebox Hits: 1941-1951
• Jungle Nights in Harlem
• Ken Burns Jazz
• Latin American Suite
• Les Incontournables
• Live and Rare
• Live and Rare
• Live at Carnegie Hall Dec. 11, 1943 [Storyville]
• Live at Stuttgart, Vol. 1: 1967
• Live at the 1956 Stratford Festival
• Live at the 1957 Stratford Festival
• Live at the Blue Note [1952]
• Live at the Greek 9/23/66
• Live at the Whitney
• Live in Alhambra
• Live in Paris
• Live in Warsaw October 30 1971
• Live in Zurich Switzerland: 2.5.1950
• Los Angeles Concert (1954)
• Love Songs
• Love Songs (Import)
• Love You Madly
• Masterpieces by Ellington [Bonus Tracks]
• Masterpieces by Ellington [Sony 2004]
• Masterpieces, Vol. 2
• Masterpieces: 1926-1949
• Masters of Jazz
• Mellow
• Money Jungle
• Money Jungle [Expanded]
• Mood Indigo
• Mood Indigo [Jazzterdays]
• Mood Indigo [Prestige] (Import)
• Mood Indigo: Jukebox Memories
• More Greatest Hits [RCA Victor]
• Mrs. Clinkscales to the Cotton Club, Vol. 1: 1926-1
• Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band
• Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band
• New Orleans Suite
• New Orleans Suite (Import)
• New York, NY
• Newport 1958
• Orchestral Works
• Original Album Classics (Such Sweet Thunder/Duke Ellington's Far East Suite/And His Mot (Import)
• Original Album Series (Import)
• Paris Blues/Anatomy Of A Murder
• Paris Jazz Concert, Vol. 2: October 29, 1958
• Piano in the Foreground
• Piano in the Foreground [Bonus Tracks]
• Piano Reflections
• Plaisir d'Ellington: The Duke and His Men
• Play 22 Original Big Band Hits
• Play the Blues Back to Back
• Playlist: The Very Best of Duke Ellington
• Plays Standards [Saga] (Import)
• Plays Strayhorn
• Plays Strayhorn
• Popular 2
• Priceless Jazz (Import)
• Private Collection, Vol. 1: Studio Sessions, Chicago 1956
• Private Collection, Vol. 2 [J-Bird]
• Private Collection, Vol. 4: Studio Sessions, New York, 1963
• Private Collection, Vol. 9: Studio Sessions, New York, 1968
• Recollections of the Big Band Era (Import)
• Reminiscing in Tempo
• Reminiscing in Tempo (Import)
• Retrospection: The Piano Sessions
• Rockin' in Rhythm [Jazz Hour]
• Rockin' in Rhythm [Jazz Hour]
• Rugged Jungle
• Sacred Music
• Second Sacred Concert
• Side by Side
• Side By Side
• Side By Side (Import)
• Side By Side (Import)
• Solos, Duets and Trios
• Sophisticated Lady [BMG]
• Sophisticated Lady [RCA]
• Soul Call
• Soul Call
• Souvenirs
• Stockholm Concert
• Such Sweet Thunder
• Such Sweet Thunder
• Such Sweet Thunder
• Such Sweet Thunder
• Such Sweet Thunder [Bonus Tracks]
• Supreme Jazz (Import)
• Take the "A" Train [Disky]
• Take the "A" Train [LRC]
• Take the "A" Train And Other Hits
• Take the A-Train [BMG]
• The 1953 Pasadena Concert
• The Alternative Takes, Vol. 10: 1947-1951
• The Alternative Takes, Vol. 5: 1936-1937
• The Alternative Takes, Vol. 6: 1937-1938
• The Alternative Takes, Vol. 7: 1938-1940
• The Alternative Takes, Vol. 9: 1942-1947
• The Best of Duke Ellington [Pablo] (Import)
• The Best of Duke Ellington/New Mood Indigo
• The Best of Early Ellington
• The Best of the Complete Duke Ellington RCA Victor Recordings, 1944-1946
• The Best of the Complete Duke Ellington RCA Victor Recordings, 1944-1946
• The Best of the Duke Ellington Centennial Edition
• The Big Band Hits of Duke Ellington
• The Blanton-Webster Band
• The British Connexion 1933-1940
• The Brunswick Sessions, Vol. 2 (1932-1935)
• The Brunswick Sessions, Vol. 3 (1932-1935)
• The Bubber Miley Era: 1924-1929
• The Carnegie Hall Concerts (December 1944) (Import)
• The Carnegie Hall Concerts (December 1947) [Bonus Tracks] (Import)
• The Carnegie Hall Concerts (January 1943)
• The Carnegie Hall Concerts (January 1946) [Bonus Tracks] (Import)
• The Centennial Anthology
• The Centennial Collection
• The Complete Ellington Indigos (Import)
• The Complete RCA-Victor Mid-Forties Recordings (1944-1946) (Import)
• The Cosmic Scene: Duke Ellington's Spacemen
• The Duke at His Best
• The Duke Box
• The Duke Ellington's Far East Suite
• The Duke Ellington's Far East Suite
• The Duke Ellington's Far East Suite (Import)
• The Duke in Munich
• The Duke in Washington
• The Duke Plays Ellington
• The Duke Steps Out [ASV/Living Era]
• The Duke's Big Four
• The Duke's Big Four
• The Duke's Big Four
• The Duke's Men: Small Groups, Vol. 1
• The Duke's Men: Small Groups, Vol. 2
• The Duke: The Columbia Years 1927-1962
• The Duke: The Columbia Years 1927-1962
• The Duke: The Essential Recordings (1927-1962)
• The Ellington Legacy
• The Ellington Suites
• The Ellington Suites
• The Ellington Suites
• The English Concert
• The Essential Duke Ellington [Sony]
• The Far East Suite [Special Mix]
• The Feeling of Jazz
• The Golden Years of Duke Ellington
• The Great Concerts: Chicago 1946
• The Great Concerts: Chicago 1946
• The Great Concerts: Cornell University 1948
• The Great Concerts: London & New York 1963-1964
• The Great Duke Ellington [RedX]
• The Great London Concerts
• The Great Paris Concert [Atlantic] (Import)
• The Great Paris Concert [Collectables]
• The Great Summit: Complete Sessions [Deluxe Edition] (Import)
• The Great Summit: The Master Takes
• The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World
• The Intimate Ellington
• The Jaywalker: 1966-1967
• The Jazz Biography Series
• The Nutcracker Suite
• The Pianist
• The Piano Player
• The Popular Duke Ellington
• The Popular Duke Ellington
• The Popular Duke Ellington
• The Popular Duke Ellington [Bonus Tracks]
• The Private Collection, Vol. 10: Studio Sessions, New York & Chicago, 1965, 1966 & 1971
• The Private Collection, Vol. 2: Dance Concerts, California, 1958
• The Private Collection, Vol. 3: Studio Sessions, New York, 1962
• The Private Collection, Vol. 5: The Suites, New York, 1968 & 1970
• The Private Collection, Vol. 6: Dance Dates, California, 1958
• The Private Collection, Vol. 7: Studio Sessions, 1957 & 1962
• The Private Collection, Vol. 8: Studio Sessions, 1957, 1965, 1966, 1967, San Francisco, Chi (Import)
• The Quintessence Chicago - New York - Hollywood, Vol. 2: 1928-1950
• The Reprise Studio Recordings
• The Satin Doll Collection
• The Strayhorn Touch [Collectables]
• The Symphonic Ellington [Collectables]
• The Treasury Shows, Vol. 11 (Import)
• The Treasury Shows, Vol. 13
• The Treasury Shows, Vol. 14
• The Treasury Shows, Vol. 2
• The Treasury Shows, Vol. 3 (Import)
• The Uncollected Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Vol. 1 (1946)
• The Unheard Recordings, Pt. 1: Live at Monterey 1960
• The Unheard Recordings, Pt. 2: Live at Monterey 1960
• The Very Best of Duke Ellington
• This Is Jazz, Vol. 36: Plays Standards
• This One's for Blanton
• This One's for Blanton
• This One's for Blanton
• Togo Brava Suite [Storyville]
• Tootin'
• Treasury Shows, Vol. 6
• Trios
• Unknown Session
• Up In Duke's Workshop (Import)
• Uptown Downbeat
• V-Disc Recordings
• Very Best Of
• Very Best of Duke Ellington [Music Brokers]
• Vol. 2: From the Cotton Club to Sweden
• Vol. 3 [BMG]
• Watermelon Man
• West Coast Swing
• Will Big Bands Ever Come Back?
• Yale Concert (Import)
• Best of Duke Ellington [TGG]
• Continuum (Import)
• Duke, We Love You Madly
• Big Bands, Big Hits
• Meets Coleman Hawkins/And John Coltrane
• At the Crystal Gardens, Salem Oregon, 1952
• The Rough Guide to Jazz Legends: Duke Ellington (Reborn and Remastered)
• It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (Import)
• Flying Home
• The Treasury Shows, Vol. 15
• Duke, We Love You Madly
• Timeline Series (Import)
• Skin Deep: The Primo Collection
• Duke Ellington at the Bal Masque
• Black, Brown and Beige
• The Essential Duke Ellington [Sony] (Import)
• The Essential Duke Ellington [Camden]
• The Early Years, Vol. 2
• Money Jungle

• Performers:
  • John Sanders - Vibraphone, Trombone
  • Britt Woodman - Trombone
  • Cat Anderson - Trumpet
  • Clark Terry - Trumpet
  • Duke Ellington - Piano
  • Harry Carney - Sax (Baritone)
  • Jimmy Hamilton - Clarinet
  • Jimmy Woode - Bass
  • Johnny Hodges - Sax (Alto)
  • Paul Gonsalves - Sax (Tenor)
  • Quentin Jackson - Trombone
  • Ray Nance - Trumpet
  • Russell Procope - Sax (Alto), Clarinet
  • Sam Woodyard - Drums
  • Willie Cook - Trumpet
• Credits:
  • Bernard Lee - Liner Notes
  • Billy Strayhorn - Composer
  • Duke Ellington - Composer
  • H.J. Lengsfelder - Composer
  • Milt Gabler - Composer
  • Stanley Dance - Liner Notes
  • X - Photography

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