tracks

(Opening Theme) Take The "A" Train
Mood To Be Wooed
Jack The Bear
Ellington Bond Promo
The More I See You
Way Low
Blues On The Double
Ellington Bond Promo
Summertime
(Theme) Take The "A" Train (Into Station Break)
(Theme) Take The "A" Train (And Broadcast Return)
(Excerpts From) Black, Brown And Beige
Come Sunday
Light (The Work Song)
I'm Beginning To See The Light (Ellington Bond Promo)
On The Alamo
Carnegie Blues
Ellington Bond Promo
Riff Stacatto
Blues Skies
(Closing Theme) Things Ain't What They Used To Be
(Opening Theme) Take The "A" Train
As Long As I Live
Nine-Twenty Special
The Wonder Of You
Walkin' With My Honey
Three Cent Stomp
Don't Take Your Love From Me
Court Session
Emancipation Celebration
Let The Zoomers Drool
(Opening Theme) Take The "A" Train
Blues Is The Night
Ellington Bond Promo
Can't You Read Between The Lines?
Hop Skip And Jump
Kissing Bug
Solid Old Man
I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
Ellington Bond Promo
I Miss Your Kiss
(Theme) Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Into Station Break)
(Theme) Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Broadcast Return)
Duke Ellington Presents The "Blues Clusters"
Blues Cluster
Diminuendo In Blue
Rocks In My Bed
Crescendo In Blue
I'm Beginning To See The Light (Ellington Bond Promo)
Teardrops In The Rain
My Little Brown Book
Ac-Cen-Tu-Ate The Positive
Ellington Bond Promo
C-Jam Blues
(Closing Theme) Take The "A" Train

notes

℗ & © 2002 D.E.T.S.

Made in Denmark.

Tracks 1-1 to 1-20 : Treasury Broadcast No. 8 - Percy Jones Center, Battle Creek, Michigan - June 2nd, 1945
Tracks 1-21 to 2-4 : Broadcast from the New Zanzibar, NYC, September 18th,1945 (NBC)
Tracks 2-5 to 2-27 : Treasury Broadcast No. 9 from Paramount Theatre, Toledo, Ohio

Total time: 72:55 (CD1).
Total time: 70:03 (CD2).

credits

Alto Saxophone – Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick
Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Harry Carney
Bass – Junior Raglin, Oscar Pettiford (tracks: 1-21 to 2-4)
Drums – Sonny Greer
Guitar – Fred Guy
Liner Notes – Dick Zander
Mastered By – Jack Towers
Piano, Arranged By – Billy Strayhorn
Piano, Arranged By, Leader – Duke Ellington
Reissue Producer – Jerry Valburn
Tenor Saxophone – Al Sears
Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Jimmy Hamilton
Trombone – Claude Jones, Joe Nanton, Lawrence Brown
Trumpet – Cat Anderson, Rex Stewart, Shelton Hemphill, Taft Jordan
Trumpet, Violin – Ray Nance
Vocals – Al Hibbler (tracks: 1-9, 2-1, 2-12, 2-23), Joya Sherrill (tracks: 1-14, 1-24, 2-10, 2-21, 2-24), Kay Davis (tracks: 1-5, 2-12), Marie Ellington (tracks: 2-19), Ray Nance (tracks: 1-18)

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – D.E.T.S.
Copyright (c) – D.E.T.S.
Recorded At – Percy Jones Center
Recorded At – The New Zanzibar ,NYC
Recorded At – Paramount Theatre, Toledo
Manufactured By – Tocano – 47248
Manufactured By – Tocano

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