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THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 1
Aimez-vous le jazz 29

(LP double CBS / 67 264) France

September, 1925 to October, 1928



Side 1 : I'm gonna hang around my sugar / Trombone blues / Georgia grind / Parlor social stomp / East Saint-Louis toodle-Oo / Hop head / Down in our alley blues / What can a poor fellow do ?

Side 2 : Black and tan fantasy (2 takes) / Chicago stomp down / Sweet mama (Papa's gettin' mad) / Stack O'lee blues / Bugle call rag / Take it easy / Jubilee stomp.

Side 3 : Harlem twist / East Saint-Louis toodle-Oo (2 takes) / Jubilee stomp (2 takes) / Take it easy (2 takes) / Diga diga doo.

Side 4 : Doin' the new lowdown / Black beauty / Swampy river / The mooche / Move over / Hot and bothered (2 takes) / The mooche.

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 2
Aimez-vous le jazz 34

(LP double CBS / 68 275)

October, 1928 to january 29, 1930



Side 1 : The mooche / Move over / Hit me in the nose blues / It's all coming all to you / Hottentot / Misty mornin' / The blues with a feelin' / Goin' to town.

Side 2 : Misty mornin' / Saratoga swing / Who said "It's tight like that" / He just don't appeal to me / I must have that man / Freeze and melt / Mississippi moan / That rhythm man.

Side 3 : Beggars blues / Saturday night function / Jungle jamboree / Snake hip dance / Doin' the voom voom / Flaming youth / Saturday night function / Lazy Duke.

Side 4 : Blues of the vagabond / Syncopated shuffle / Saint James infirmary / When you're smiling (2 takes) / Rent party blues (2 takes).

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 3
Aimez-vous le jazz 35

(LP double CBS / 88 000) France

January 29, 1930 to february 4, 1932



Side 1 : Jungle blues (2 takes) / The mooch (2 takes) / Ragamuffin' Romeo / East St-Louis toodle-Oo / Sweet mama / Hot and bothered.

Side 2 : Double check stomp / Black and tan fantasy / Big house blues / Rocky mountain blues / Ring dem bells / Three little words / Old man blues / Sweet chariot.

Side 3 : Mood indigo / I can't realise you love me / I'm so in love with you / Rockin' in rhythm / Them there eyes (3 takes) / Rockin' chair.

Side 4 : Rockin' chair / I'm so in love with you / Moon over Dixie / It don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) / Lazy rhapsody (2 takes) / Blue tune (2 takes).

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 4
Aimez-vous le jazz 41

(LP double CBS / 88 035) France

February 4 to December 21, 1932



Side 1 : Baby when you ain't there / Saint-Louis blues (2 takes) / Creole love call / Rose room / Blue Harlem.

Side 2 : The sheik of Araby / Swampy river / Fast and furious / Best wishes (2 takes) / Slippery horn / Blue ramble (2 takes).

Side 3 : Clouds in my heart / Blue mood (3 takes) / Ducky wucky (2 takes) / Jazz cocktail (2 takes).

Side 4 : Lightnin' (2 takes) / Stars (2 takes) / Swing low (2 takes) / Baby ! / Any time, any day, any where.

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 5
Aimez-vous le jazz 42

(LP double CBS / 88 082) France

December 21, 1932 to August 15, 1933



Side 1 : Any time, any day, any where / Delta bound / Diga diga do / I can't give you anything but love / I must have that man ! (2 takes) / Baby !

Side 2 : Eerie moan (2 takes) / Merry-go-round (2 takes) / Sophisticated lady (2 takes) / I've got the world on a string / Down a carolina lane.

Side 3 : Slippery horn / Blackbird medley part. 1 : Intro - I can't give you anything but love - Doin' the new low-down - I must have that man - Baby ! / Blackbird medley part. 2 : Dixie - Diga diga doo - Porgy - I can't give you anything but love (2 takes of each part.) / Drop me off at Harlem (2 takes) / Happy as the day is long.

Side 4 : Raisin' the rent / Get yourself a new broom / Bundle of blues (2 takes) / Sophisticated lady / Stormy weather / I'm satisfied / Jive stomp.

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 6
Aimez-vous le jazz 43

(LP double CBS / 88 137) France

August 15, 1933 to January 20, 1936



Side 1 : Harlem speaks / In the shade of the old apple tree / Solitude / Saddest tale / Moonglow / Sump'n 'bout rhythm / Admiration / Farewell blues.

Side 2 : Let's have a jubilee / Porto rican chaos / Margie / Moonlight fiesta (2 takes) / Tough truckin' (2 takes) / Indigo echoes.

Side 3 : In a sentimental mood / Showboat shuffle / Merry-go-round / Admiration / Cotton / Truckin' / Accent on youth.

Side 4 : Reminiscing in tempo (parts 1 to 4) / I don't know why I love you so (2 takes) / Dinah Lou (2 takes).

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 7
Aimez-vous le jazz 44

(LP double CBS / 88 140)

February 27, 1936 to March 5, 1937



Side 1 : Isn't love the strangest thing / (There is) No greater love / Clarinet lament / Echoes of Harlem / Love is like a cigarette / Kissin' my baby good-night / Oh, baby ! Maybe someday / Shoe shine boy.

Side 2 : It was a sad night in Harlem / Trumpet in spades / Yearning for love / In a jam / Exposition swing (2 takes) / Uptown downbeat / Relaxious.

Side 3 : Lazy man's shuffle (2 takes) / Clouds in my heart / Frolic Sam / Caravan (2 takes) / Stompy Jones (2 takes).

Side 4 : Scattin' at the Cotton Club / Black butterfly / Mood Indigo and Solitude / Sophisticated lady and In a sentimental mood / The new birmingham breakdown (2 takes) / Scattin' at the Kit Kat (2 takes).

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 8
Aimez-vous le jazz 45

(LP double CBS / 88 185)

March 5 au May 20, 1937



Side 1 : I've got to be a rug cutter (2 takes) / The new East Saint-Louis toodle-Oo (2 takes) / I can't believe that you're in love with me / Downtown uproar / Digga digga do (2 takes).

Side 2 : Blue reverie (2 takes) / Whispering tiger (2 takes) / There's a lull in my life (2 takes) / It's swell of you (2 takes).

Side 3 : You can't run away from love tonight (2 takes) / Azure (2 takes) / The lady who couldn't be kissed / Old plantation (2 takes) / Solace.

Side 4 : Four and one half street / Demi-tasse / Jazz a la carte / Caravan / Azure / Foolin' myself (2 takes) / A sailboat in the moon light.

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 9
Aimez-vous le jazz 46

(LP double CBS / 88 218)

May 20 au to September 20, 1937



Side 1 : You'll never go to heaven (If you break my heart) / Peckin' (3 takes) / All God's chillum got rhythm (4 takes).

Side 2 : Alabamy (2 takes) / Get it southern style / Moonlight fiesta / Sponge cake and spinach / If you're ever in my arms again / The back room romp (A contrapuntal stomp).

Side 3 : The back room romp (A contrapuntal stomp) / Swing baby swing (2 takes) / Sugar hill shim sham (2 takes) / Tea and trumpets (2 takes) / Chatter-box.

Side 4 : Jubilesta / Diminuendo in blue / Crescendo in blue / Diminuendo in blue / Crescendo in blue / Harmony in Harlem (2 takes) / Dusk in the desert.

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 10
Aimez-vous le jazz 47

(LP double CBS / 88 220)

October 26, 1937 to March 28, 1938



Side 1 : Jubilesta / Watching / Pigeons and peppers / I can't give you anything but love / Stepping into swing society / Prologue to Black and tan fantasy / The new Black and tan fanatasy / Drummer's delight.

Side 2 : If I thought you cared / Have a heart (Lost in meditation) (2 takes) / My day / Silvery moon and golden sands / Echoes of Harlem (2 takes) / Riding on a blue note.

Side 3 : Riding on a blue note / Lost in meditation / The gal from Joe's (2 takes) / If you were in my place (What would you do) (2 takes) / Skrontch (2 takes) .

Side 4 : I let a song go out of my heart (2 takes) / Braggin' in brass (2 takes) / Carnival in Caroline / Jeep's blues / If you were in my place (What would you do) / I let a song go out of my heart.

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 11
Aimez-vous le jazz 48

(LP double CBS / 88 242)

March 28 to August 4, 1938



Side 1 : Rendez-vous with rhythm / A lesson in C / Swingtime in Honolulu / I'm slappin' seventh avenue (With the sole of my shoes) / Dinah's in jam.

Side 2 : You gave me the gate (And I'm swingin') / Rose of the rio Grande (2 takes) / Pyramid (2 takes) / When my sugar walks down the street / Watermelon man / A gipsy without a song.

Side 3 : The stevedore's serenade / La de doody doo / You walked out of the picture / Pyramid / Empty ballroom blues / Lost in meditation (2 takes) / A blues serenade.

Side 4 : Love in swingtime / Swingin' in the dell / Jitterbug's lullaby / Chasin' chippies / Blues in the evening / Sharpie / Swing pan alley / A blues serenade.

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 12
(LP double CBS / 88 451)

August 4 to December 22, 1938



Side 1 : Love in swingtime / Please forgive me / Lambeth walk / Prelude to a kiss (2 takes) / Hip chic / Buffet flat / Prelude to a kiss.

Side 2 : There's someting about and old love / The jeep is jumpin' / Krum elbow blues / Twits and twerps / Mighty like the blues (2 takes) / Jazz pot-pourri / T.T. on toast.

Side 3 : T.T. on toast / Battle of swing (2 takes) / I'm in another land / Hodge podge / Dancing on the stars / Wandelust / Delta mood.

Side 4 : The boys from Harlem / Mobile blues (2 takes) / Gal-avantin' / Blue light (2 takes) / Old king doodji / Boy meets horn.

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 13
(LP double CBS / 88 518)

December 22, 1938 to June 2, 1939



Side 1 : Slap happy (2 takes) / Like a ship in the night / Mississippi dreamboat / Swingin' on the campus / Dooji wooji / Beautiful romance / Boudoir Benny.

Side 2 : Ain't the gravy good (2 takes) / She's gone / Just good fun / Informal blues / San Juan hill / I'll come back from more / "Fat stuff" serenade.

Side 3 : Pussy willow / Subtle lament / Lady in blue - Smorgasborg and schnapps / Savoy strut (2 takes) / Rent party blues / Dance of the goon.

Side 4 : Good gal blues / Finesse / Portrait of the lion (2 takes) / (I want) Something to live for / Solid old man / Kitchen mechanic's day / My heart jumped over the moon.

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 14
(LP double CBS / 88 521)

June 2 to October 14,1939



Side 1 : You can count on me / Home town blues / Cotton club stomp / Doin' the voom voom / Way low / Serenade to Sweden / Utt-da-zay / Chew chew che.

Side 2 : Barney goin' easy / Just another dream / In a mizz / I'm checkin' out-go'om bye / A lonely co-ed / You can count on me / Night song / Blues a poppin'.
Side 3 : Top and bottom / Black beauty / Boucing buoyancy / The sergeant was shy / Grievin' / The rabbit's jump / Moon romance.

Side 4 : Truly wonderful / Dream blues / Little posey / I never felt this way before (2 takes) / Grievin' / Tootin' through the roof.

THE COMPLETE DUKE ELLINGTON volume 15
(LP double CBS / 88 522) France

October 14, 1939 to February 15, 1940



Side 1 : Weely / Skunk hollow blues / I know what you do / Your love has faded / Tired socks / Blues / Early mornin'.

Side 2 : Killin' myself / Your love has faded / Country gal / Minuet in blues / Lost in two flats / Honey hush / Blues / Plucked again.

Side 3 : Solitude / Stormy weather / Mood indigo / Sophisticated lady / Pelican drag / Tapioca.

Side 4 : Mardi gras madness / Watch the birdie / Black butterfly / Dry so long / Toasted pickle / Give it up.