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      Alice BABS & Duke ELLINGTON 
      SERENADE TO SWEDEN 
      (LP TELESTAR / TRS 11 100) Sweden 
       
      February 28 and March 1st, 1963 
      George Barboteu (fh), Percy Glascoe (cl), Joe Hrasko (as), Gérard Badini 
      , Duke Ellington (p, except "Something to live for" : Billy Strayhorn), 
      Gilbert Rovere (b), Christian Garros or Kenny Clarke (dm), Alice Babbs (vo) 
       
        
       
      Side 1 : Serenade to Sweden / The boy in my 
      dreams / Stoona / La de doody doo / Strange visitor / Azure / Come Sunday. 
       
      Side 2 : C jam blues / I didn't know about 
      you / Satin doll / Take love easy / Babsie / (I want) Something to live 
      for / I'm beginning to see the light / Untitled lullaby.   | 
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      Alice BABS 
      SERENADING DUKE ELLINGTON 
      (CD PROPHONE / PCD 021) Sweden 
       
      1974-1975 
      Nils Lindberg's Orchestra +and Ulf Wesslén (orgue) 
       
        
       
      Lady in blue / Me and you / Don't get around much anymore / Freedom I / 
      There's something about me / Somebody cares / Warm valley / I don't mind 
      / Jump for joy / I like the sunrise / Freedom I & III / Somebody cares / 
      Thank you for everything / Something about believing / Solitude.   | 
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      Alice BABS 
      FAR AWAY STAR 
      (CD BLUEBELL / ABCD 005) Europe 
       
        
       
      With Duke Ellington and his Orchestra - July 3, 1973 
       
      Far away star / Serenade to Sweden / Spaceman / Jeep's blues. 
       
      Nils Lindberg (piano) - Radio Sockholm, Stockholm - May 15, 1976 
       
      Day dream. 
       
      With Nils Lindberg - Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm - November 25, 
      1974 
       
      Serenade to Sweden / Is God three-letter world of love / Jump for joy / 
      Warm valley / Blues for Maestro.   | 
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      Eugenie BAIRD 
      SINGS, DUKE'S BOYS PLAY 
      (CD FRESH SOUND RECORDS / FSR 1610)  
       
      New York - November 1958 
       
        
       
      I'm beginning to see the light / In a sentimental mood / Something to live 
      for / Mood indigo / Everything but you / I let a song go out of my heart 
      / Lush life / Solitude / Pass me by (Love has passed me by again) / Well 
      well.  
       
      Well well is not an Ellington tune, Pass me 
      by is from Billy Strayhorn.   | 
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      Chris BARBER'S JAZZ BAND 
      ECHOES OF ELLINGTON 
      (LP x 3 BLACK LION / INT 187.000)  
       
      Live at St. Ivo Centre, St. Ives, UK - June 3, 1976 
      Featuring Russell Procope and Wild Bill Davis 
       
        
       
      Side 1 : Stevedore stomp / Jeep's blues / I'm 
      slapping seventh avenue (With the sole of my shoe). 
       
      Side 2 : Mood indigo / Shout 'em Aunt Tillie. 
       
       
      Side 3 : I a mellotone / Prelude to a kiss 
      / Second line / Perdido. 
       
      Side 4 : Warm valley / Caravan / Sophisticated 
      lady.  
       
      Side 5 : Squatty roo / Blues for Duke / Take 
      the A train. 
       
      Side 6 : It don't mean a thing if it ain't 
      got that swing / Just squeeze me / The mooche / The jeep is jumpin'.   | 
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      Chris BARBER'S JAZZ BAND 
      ECHOES OF ELLINGTON 
      (CD double TIMELESS RECORDS / TTD555/56) Netherland 
       
      Live at St. Ivo Centre, St. Ives, UK - June 3, 1976 
       
      Same as previous 
       
      CD 1 : Stevedore stomp / Jeep's blues / I'm 
      slapping Seventh Avenue with the stole of my shoe / In a mellow tone / Prelude 
      to a kiss / Second line / Perdido / Mood indigo / Shout'em Aunt Tilly. 
       
      CD 2 : Squatty roo / Blues for Duke / Take 
      the A train / Warm valley / Caravan / Sophisticated lady / It don't mean 
      a thing if it ain't got that swing / Just squeeze me / The mooche / The 
      jeep is jumpin'.   | 
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      Daniel BARENBOIM 
      TRIBUTE TO ELLINGTON  
      (CD TELDEC / 25 252 2)  
       
      1998 - 1999 
       
        
       
      Do nothing till you hear from me / Satin doll / Sophisticated lady / Caravan 
      / Don't get around much anymore / Azure / Squatty roo / Prelude to a kiss 
      / Mood indigo - Purple gazelle / Star-crossed lovers / Zweet zurzday (from 
      Suite thurday) / Take the A train / In a sentimental mood / Fast & furious. 
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      Alan BARNES 
      HARLEM AIRSHAFT  
      (CD WOODVILLE / WVCD 122)  
       
      2008 
       
        
       
      Take the A train / Snibor / Second line / Black butterfly / Fantazm / Harlem 
      Airshaft / Sunswept Sunday / Battle royal / Tonight I shall sleep (With 
      a smile on my face) / Fife / Brown Penny / La plus belle africaine.   | 
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      Charlie BARNET 
      CHARLIE BARNET PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON 
      (LP 10" RCA VICTOR / LPT 3062)  
       
      1954 
       
      Side 1 : Rockin' in rhythm / Harlem speaks 
      / The sergeant was shy / The gal form Joe's. 
       
      Side 2 : Ring dem bells / Lament for a lost 
      love / Birmingham breakdown / The Duke's idea.   | 
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      Charlie BARNET 
      THE MUSIC OF DUKE ELLINGTON 
      (LP LIMITED EDITION RECORDS / LP 101)  
       
      Side 1 : C jam blues / Take the A train / The 
      sergeant was shy / I didn't know about you / Mainstem / Sentimental lady 
      / Cottontail. 
       
      Side 2 : The duke's idea / Prelude to a kiss 
      / Rockin' in rhythm / I let a song go out of my heart / In a mellow tone 
      / Caravan / Ring dem bells / Rhapsody in Harlem.   | 
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      BARRELHOUSE JAZZBAND 
      PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON 
      (CD BELLAPHON / CDLR 40026) Germany 
       
      1988 
       
        
       
      A date with the Duke / Medley number one : Rockin' in rhythm - Black and 
      tan fantasy - East St. Louis toodle-Oo - Mood indigo - Creole love call 
      - Things ain't what they used to be - Rockin' in rhythm / I let a song go 
      out of my heart / Medley number two : Take the A train - In my solitude 
      - Caravan - The mooche - Cotton tail / I let a song go out of my heart. 
       
      A date with the Duke is not an Ellington tune.   | 
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      BASIE ORCHESTRA (without Count 
      Basie) 
      COUNT PLAYS DUKE 
      (CD MAMA / MMF 1024)  
       
      1998 
       
        
       
      Take the A train / It don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing) / 
      I got it bad and that ain't good / I let a song go out of my heart / Just 
      squeeze me (But don't tease me) / Do nothin' till you hear from me / The 
      star-crossed lovers / Love you madly / In a sentimental mood / Cottontail 
      / Paris blues / Mood indigo / I'm just a lucky so and so.   | 
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      Sathima BEA BENJAMIN 
      SATHIMA SINGS ELLINGTON 
      (LP EKAPA / EK 001) USA 
       
      New York - April, 1979 
       
      Side 1 : In a mellow tone / Prelude to a kiss 
      / Sophisticated lady / Mood indigo. 
       
      Side 2 : Lush life / I let a song go out of 
      my heart / Solitude.   | 
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      Joe BECK (see Jay LEONHART)  | 
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      Louie BELLSON 
      BLACK, BROWN & BEIGE 
      (CD LIMELIGHT / 522 429 2)  
       
      1992 
       
        
       
      The hawk talks / Skin deep / BLACK : Work song - Come Sunday - Light / BROWN 
      : West indian dance - Emancipation proclamation - The blues / BEIGE / ELLINGTON-STRAYHORN 
      SUITE : European skallyhoppin' - Portrait of Billy Strayhorn - Sketches. 
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      Tony BENNETT 
      SINGS ELLINGTON HOT & COOL 
      (CD RPM RECORDS / CK 63668)  
       
      1999 
       
        
       
      Do nothin' till you hear from me / Mood indigo / She's got it bad (And that 
      ain't good) / Caravan / Chelsea bridge / Azure / I'm just a lucky so and 
      so / In a sentimental mood / Don't get around much anymore / Sophisticated 
      lady / In a mellow tone / Day dream / Prelude to a kiss / I don't mean a 
      thing (If it ain't got that swing).   | 
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      BERKLEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC 
      JAZZ IN THE CLASSROOM Volume VIII 
      A TRIBUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON 
      (LP BERKLEE RECORDS / BLP 8) USA  
       
      1964 
      Conducted by Herb Pomeroy 
       
        
       
      Side 1 : Upper Manhattan Medical Group / Falling 
      like a raindrop / Blue Serge / Things ain't what they used to be / Star 
      crossed lovers / Satin doll. 
       
      Side 2 : Rain check / Reflections in D / A 
      tone parallel to Harlem / The girl in my dreams tries to look like you / 
      Ebony / Take the A train.   | 
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      Bill BERRY and his ELLINGTON ALL-STARS 
      FOR DUKE 
      (CD M & K REALTIME RECORDS / RT 101)  
       
      1978 
      Bill Berry (trumpet), Britt Woodman (trombone), Marshall Royal (alto sax), 
      Scott Hamilton (tenor sax), Nat Pierce (piano), Ray Brown (bass), Frankie 
      Capp (drums)  
       
      Take the A train / Mood indigo / Things ain't what they used to be / Perdido 
      / Satin doll / I got it bad (And that ain't good) / I let a song go out 
      of my heart / Cottontail.   | 
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      Pierre BERTRAND 
      FAR EAST SUITE 
      (CD CRISTAL RECORDS / CR 278) France 
       
      2018 
       
        
       
      Tourist point of view / Minah / Isfahan / Depk / Mount Harissa / Blue pepper 
      / Agra / Amad / Ad lib on Nippon.   | 
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      Gustavo BEYTELMANN TRIO 
      TANGO A LA DUKE 
      (CD BIRAM / 97 000 11) France 
       
      1997 
      Gustavo Beytemann (piano), Juan José Mosalini (bandonéon), Roberto Tormo 
      (bass) 
       
        
       
      Me pongo sentimental (In a sentimental mood) / Soledad (Solitude) / Caravana 
      (Caravane) / Muneca satinada (Satin doll) / Take the A train / Dama sofisticado 
      (Sophisticated lady) / Preludio de un beso (Prelude to a kiss) / I got it 
      bad (and that ain't good) / Humor indigo (Mood indigo) / Day dream.   | 
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      BIG BAND DE LAUSANNE 
      DUKE ELLINGTON'S SACRED MUSIC 
      (CD double TCB RECORDS / TCB 320502) Switzerland 
       
      San Lorenzo Cathedrale, Lugano, Switzerland - 1998 
       
      See also DVD, same concert 
       
      CD 1 : In the beginning God / Will you be there 
      ? / Ain't but the one / Tell me it's the truth / Heaven / Praise God / The 
      Lord's prayer / The shepherd / David danced. 
       
      CD 2 : Somethin' 'bout believing / Come Sunday 
      / My love / Freedom / Meditation / Praise God and dance.   | 
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      BIG BAND RITMO SINFONICA 
      A TRIBUTE TO DUKE ELLINGTON 
      (CD AZZURRA MUSIC / TBP JAB022) Italy 
       
      1999 
       
      Such sweet thunder / Sonnet for Caesar / Sonnet to Hanq Cinq / Lady Mac 
      / Sonnet in search of a moor / The telecasters / Up and down, up and down 
      / Sonnet for Sister Kate / The star-crossed lovers / Madness in great ones 
      / Half the fun / Circle of fourth / Concerto per marimba, vibrafono e big 
      band / Take the A train - C jam blues / Such sweet thunder. 
       
      Concerto per marimba, vibrafono e big bandl is not 
      an Ellington tune.   | 
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      PAUL BLEY 
      CARAVAN SUITE 
      (CD STEEPLE CHASE / SCCD 31316) Denmark 
       
      1993  
       
      Caravan suite : Section 1 - Section 2 - Section 3 - Section 4 / I got it 
      bad and that ain't good / In my solitude / I'm beginning to see the light. 
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      Dan BLOCK 
      FROM HIS WORLD TO MINE 
      Plays the music of Duke Ellington 
      (CD MILES HIGH RECORDS / MHR 8612) USA 
       
      2010  
       
      Kissing bug / New York City blues / Old King Dooji / Morning glory / Are 
      you stickin' ? / The beautiful indians : Minnehaha / Suburbanite / Ballad 
      medley : All heart - Change my ways / Portrait of Bert Williams / Mount 
      Harrissa / Creole blues / Cotton Club stomp / Rocks in my bed / Second line. 
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      Claude BOLLING 
      PLAYS DUKE ELLINGTON 
      (CD FONTANA / 546 197 2) France 
       
      Paris - November 19 and 24, 1959 
      Claude Bolling (piano), Jacques Hess (bass), Arnie Wise (drums)  
       
        
       
      Don't get around much anymore / Satin doll / Black beauty / The telecasters 
      / Sophisticated lady / Dancers in love / Things ain't what they used to 
      be / Day dream / Just squeeze me / Lady of the lavender mist / I'm beginning 
      to see the light / Prelude to a kiss / It don't mean a thing.   | 
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      BOLLING BAND 
      PLAYS ELLINGTON MUSIC volume 1 
      (CD CBS / MK 42 474) Europe 
       
      1987 
       
        
       
      Stomp, look and listen / Blue Serge / Ko-ko / Echoes of Harlem / Sepia panorama 
      / Cotton tail / Sophisticated lady / It don't mean a thing if it ain't got 
      that swing / Magenta haze / In a mellow tone / Rockin' in rhythm.   | 
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      BOLLING BAND 
      PLAYS ELLINGTON MUSIC volume 2 
      (CD CBS / MK 42 476) Europe 
       
      1987 
       
        
       
      Take the A train / Lady of the lavender mist / Midriff / Chelsea bridge 
      / Perdido / Upper Manhattan Medical Group / Mood indigo / I let a song go 
      out of my heart - Don't get around much anymore / Diminuendo and crescendo 
      in blue.   | 
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      BOLLING BIG BAND 
      BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE 
      (CD ADES / 14 168 2) France 
       
      Théâtre du Centre Culturel de Paris-le Perreux - January 3 and 4, 1989 
       
        
       
      BLACK : Work song - Come sunday - Light (parties 1 to 3) / BROWN : West 
      indian dance - Emancipation - The blues / BEIGE : War - Sugar hill penthouse 
      - Rock waltz - Symphonette - Final.   | 
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      Claude BOLLING BIG BAND 
      A DRUM IS A WOMAN 
      (CD MILAN JAZZ / 40906 2) Europe 
       
      Théâtre National de Chaillot - Paris - April 4 and 5, 1996 
       
        
       
      A drum is a woman / Rhythm pum te dum / What else can you do with a drum 
      / New Orleans / Hey, Buddy Bolden / Carribee Joe / Congo square / A drum 
      is a woman, part 2 / You better know it / Madam Zajj / Ballet of the flyin' 
      saucers / Zajj's dream / Rhumbop / Carribee Joe Part 2 / Final.   | 
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      Claude BOLLING BIG BAND 
      BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE / A DRUM IS A WOMAN 
      (CD double MILAN / 67938 2)  
       
      1989 - 1996 
       
      This album group together BLACK, BROWN AND BEIGE and A DRUM IS A WOMAN 
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      Claude BOLLING BIG BAND 
      A TONE PARALLEL TO HARLEM 
      (CD MILAN JAZZ / 69 988 2) Europe 
       
      1976 to 1999 
       
        
       
      Harlem (A tone parallel to) / Ring dem bells / Things ain't what they used 
      to be / Creole love call / Drop me off in Harlem / It don't mean a thing 
      / Just squeeze me / Caravan / Harlem air shaft / Moon mist / Jungle traps 
      / Duke on my mind / Lot o'fingers / Diminuendo in blue - Blow by blow / 
      Crescendo.   | 
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      Thomas BRAMERIE (see André VILLEGER)  | 
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      BRATISLAVA HOT SERENADERS 
      PRESENTS EDWARD "DUKE" ELLINGTON 
      (CD DOLIS) Slovakia 
       
      2003 to 2008 
       
        
       
      The creeper / Creole love call / East St. Louis toodle-Oo / Washington wobble 
      / Take it easy / Jubilee stomp / Black beauty (Fire water) / I can't give 
      you anything but love / The mooche / Swampy river / Cotton Club stomp / 
      The dicty glide / Double check stomp / Sweet jazz of mine / Jungle nights 
      in Harlem / Old man blues / Mood indigo / Cotton Club stomp (take B) 
      / Rockin' in rhythm / Black beauty (piano solo version).   | 
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      Teresa BREWER with Shelly MANNE 
      A SOPHISTICATED LADY 
      (CD COLUMBIA / CK 37 363)  
       
      1981 
       
      It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing / Don't get around much 
      anymore / Sophisticated lady / Solitude / Duke's place / Come Sunday / I'm 
      beginning to see the light / I got it bad and that ain't good / I let a 
      song go out of my heart.   | 
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      Anthony BROWN'S ASIAN AMERICAN ORCHESTRA 
      FAR EAST SUITE 
      (CD ASIAN IMPRO RECORDS / AIR 0053) USA 
       
      1999 
       
      Tourist point of view / Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah) / Isfahan / Depk / Mount 
      Harrissa (prelude) / Mount Harrissa / Blue pepper (Far east suite of the 
      blues) / Agra / Amad / Ad lib on Nippon.   | 
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      John BROWN 
      DANCING WITH DUKE AN HOMAGE TO DUKE ELLINGTON 
      (CD BROWN BOULEVARD RECORDS) 
       
      2010 John Brown (bass), Cyrus Chestnut (piano), Adonis Rose (drums) 
       
In a mellow tone / Do nothing till you hear from me / Perdido / Pie eye's blues / Isfahan / I'm beginning to see the light / 
Sweet ballad blues : A flower is a lovesome thing - I got it bad (And that ain't good) - Solitude / It don't mean a thing (If it ain't got that swing).   | 
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      Dave BRUBECK QUARTET 
      NEWPORT 1958 - BRUBECK PLAYS ELLINGTON 
      (CD GAMBIT RECORDS / 69322)  
       
      Newport Jazz Festival - July 1958 
       
        
       
      Things ain't what they used to be / Jump for joy / Perdido / Dance n° 3 
      from "Liberian Suite" / The Duke / Flamingo / C jam blues - Take the A train. 
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      Henry BRUN 
      RHYTHMS AND REEDS 
      A tribute to the Master Duke Ellington 
      (CD PULSAR RECORDS / 290 226 8) USA 
       
      2009 
       
        
       
      Upper Manhattan Medical Group (U.M.M.G.) / Muñeca (Satin doll) / Flamingo 
      / In a sentimental mood / Lover man / Solitude / Perdido / Sophisticated 
      lady / C jam blues / In a mellow tone / It don't mean a thing (If it ain't 
      got that swing) / Cotton tail / Fleurette africaine (African flower) / La 
      caravana reprise (Caravan).   | 
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      Kenny BURRELL 
      ELLINGTON IS FOREVER volume 1  
      (CD FANTASY / FCD 79005 2)  
       
      Berkeley - February 4 and 5, 1975 
       
        
       
      Jump for joy / Caravan / Chelsea bridge / Mood indigo / Don't get around 
      much anymore / C jam blues / It don't mean a thing ( If it ain't got that 
      swing) / I didn't know about you / My little brown bbok / Blues medley : 
      Carnegie blues - Rocks in my bed - Jeep's blues - Creole love call / Do 
      nothin' till you hear from me / Take the A train.   | 
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      Kenny BURRELL 
      ELLINGTON IS FOREVER volume 2  
      (CD FANTASY / FCD 79008 2)  
       
      Berkeley - November and December, 1975 
       
        
       
      Azure / Take the A train / In a sentimental mood / I'm beginning to see 
      the light / Satin doll / I'm just a lucky so and so / In a mellow tone / 
      Solitude / Jeep is jumpin' / I let a song go out of my heart / Prelude to 
      a kiss / Satin doll (segue) / Come sunday / Just squeeze me / I ain't got 
      nothin' but the blues / Orson.   | 
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      Kenny BURRELL 
      ELLINGTON A LA CARTE 
      (CD MUSE RECORDS / MCD 5435)  
       
      Village West, New York - August, 1983 
      Kenny Burrel (guitar), Rufus Reid (bass) 
       
      Take the A train / Sultry sunset / Flamingo / In a mellow tone / Don't worry 
      'bout me / Ellington medley : Azure - I ain't got nothing but the blues 
      - Do nothing till you hear from me - Mood indigo / Blues for Duke.  | 
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      Gary BURTON (see Jay LEONHART)  | 
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      Billy BYERS 
      IMPRESSIONS OF DUKE ELLINGTON 
      (LP MERCURY / PPS 2028) USA  
       
      1962 
       
        
       
      Side 1 : Take the A train / Sophisticated lady 
      / Just squeeze me (but don't tease me) / Chelsea bridge / Caravan. 
       
      Side 2 : Mood indigo / I'm beginning to see 
      the light / Solitude / Don't get around much anymore / All too soon.  |