Main specs
Title: Sophisticated Lady
Performer: Duke Ellington
Genre: Jazz Instrument
Sub Genre: Big Band
Release Date: 10/1996
Original Release Year: 1996
Label / Distributor: RCA Victor / Sony BMG/Arvato Services
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Studio
Stereo: Mono
Format: Performer
EAN: 90266851621
Catalogue Number: 9026685162
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Additional notes
Album Notes: Personnel includes: Duke Ellington (piano); Ray Nance (vocals, trumpet); Ivy Anderson, Herb Jeffries, Kay Davis, Joya Sherrill, Marie Ellington, Al Hibbler, Marian Cox (vocals); Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney (saxophone, clarinet); Ben Webster, Otto Hardwick, Russell Procope (saxophone); Cat Anderson, Shelton Hemphill (trumpet); Joseph "Tricky Sam" Nanton, Juan Tizol (trombone); Barney Bigard (clarinet); Billy Strayhorn (piano); Fred Guy (guitar); Oscar Petitford (bass); Sonny Greer (drums).
Album Reviews: Down Beat (3/97, p.59) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...boils down the popular BLANTON-WEBSTER BAND and BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE three-CD sets to a single disc....a chronologically organized selection of some of Duke's best and most widely known versions of `Take The `A' Train,' `The `C' Jam Blues,' `Caravan,' and `Mood Indigo' (among others) recorded in the years '40-'46..."
Titles on disc 1
1.: Take The 'A' Train
2.: I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
3.: Chelsea Bridge
4.: Perdido
5.: C Jam Blues
6.: Caravan
7.: Mood Indigo
8.: It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
9.: Sophisticated Lady
10.: Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Time's A Wasting)
11.: Just Squeeze Me
12.: Concerto For Cootie
13.: Never No Lament
14.: Just A Sittin' And A Rockin'
15.: Prelude To A Kiss
16.: In A Sentimental Mood
17.: I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
18.: Solitude
19.: St Louis Blues
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