DUKE ELLINGTON: Symphonic or Bust - The Orchestral Duke Ellington

 

1 Black, Brown & Beige: Black - Work Song 07:25
2 Black, Brown & Beige: Black - Come Sunday 05:54
3 Black, Brown & Beige: Black - Light 06:49
4 Black, Brown & Beige: Brown - West Indian Dance 02:32
5 Black, Brown & Beige: Brown - Emancipation Proclamation 02:08
6 Black, Brown & Beige: Brown - the Blues 04:47
7 Black, Brown & Beige: Beige 14:25
8 Three Black Kings (Les Trois Rois Noirs): King Of The Magi, King Solomon, Martin Luther King (orchestrated by Luther Henderson) 19:16
9 New World a-Comin' for solo piano and orchestra (orchestrated by Maurice Peress) 13:55
10 The Tattooed Bride (Live, Cornell University, December 1948) 13:16
11 Harlem (Live, London, England, February 20, 1964) 15:00
12 Reminiscing In Tempo (Live, December 10, 1948, Cornell University, New York) 08:49
13 The Symphomaniac, Part I: Symphonic or Bust (Live At Cornell University, December 1948) 06:08
14 The Symphomaniac, Part II: How You Sound (Live At Cornell University, December 1948) 03:59
15 Come Sunday; Work Song - Two Excerpts from Black, Brown & Beige (Live, January 20, 1946, Chicago, Illinois) 11:52
16 The Tonal Group: Mello Ditty (Meloditty) (Live, Chicago, Illinois, January 20, 1946) 07:00
17 The Tonal Group: Fugue (Fugaditty) (Live, Chicago, Illinois, January 20, 1946) 02:39
18 The Tonal Group: Jam a Ditty - Concerto for Jam Band (Live, Chicago, Illinois, January 20, 1946) 03:44
19 The Deep South Suite: There Was Nobody Looking (Live, Chicago, Illinois, November 10, 1946) 03:11
20 The Deep South Suite: Magnolias Just Dripping with Molasses (Live, Chicago, Illinois, November 10, 1946) 04:48
21 The Deep South Suite: Hearsay (Live, Chicago, Illinois, November 10, 1946) 05:02
22 The Deep South Suite: Happy-Go-Lucky Local (Live, Chicago, Illinois, November 10, 1946) 05:51
23 Black, Brown And Beige Suite: Work Song, Come Sunday, Light 20:10
24 Music Is My Mistress, Movement I, Part 1 02:10
25 Music Is My Mistress, Movement I, Part 2 03:03
26 Music Is My Mistress, Movement 2 02:51
27 Music Is My Mistress, Movement 3 07:04
28 Music Is My Mistress, Movement 4 07:04
29 Music Is My Mistress, Movement 5 03:09
30 Harlem 15:19

The Orchestral Duke Ellington collects the orchestral suites recorded by Jazz Heritage and Musical Heritage Society. ClassicsToday called MHS's recordings of Four Orchestral Suites "the greatest Duke Ellington recording ever". These suites show Ellington as a composer on a level with the great American composers.