tracks

Take The "A" Train
The Eight Veil
Duke Ellington Bond Promo
Lover Man
Blue Is The Night
Just Squeeze Me
Duke Ellington Bond Promo
1-8 Blue Cluster
Diminuendo In Blue
Transbluency
Crescendo In Blue
Duke Ellington Bond Promo
Thins Ain't What They Used To Be , Into Station Break
Take The "A" Train
A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing
Duke Ellington Bond Promo
Hollywood Hangover
I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
The Jeep Is Jumping
Take The "A" Train
The Strollers
Rocks In My Bad
John Hardy's Wife
Take The "A" Train
9:20 Special
Day Dream
Metronome All Out
Duke Ellington Bond Promo
Rhapsoditty
Fugaditty
Jam-A-Ditty
Duke Ellington Bond Promo
Take The "A" Train
Take The "A" Train
Just Squeeze Me
Duke Ellington Bond Promo
One O'Clock Jump
Cynthia's In Love
Take The "A" Train
Baby, Please Stop And Think About Me
And Russia Is Her Name
Don't Get Around Much Anymore - And Close

notes

Tracks 1-1 to 1-16 - Treasury Broadcast No. 43, Golden Gate Theatre, San Francisco, August 3, 1946, (ABC)
Tracks 1-17 to 1-20 - Broadcast from Lakeside Park,El Patio Ballroom, Denver, July 15, 1942 (CBS)
Tracks 2-1 to 2-16 - Treasury Broadcast No. 44, Meadowbrook, Culver City, Cal., August 17, 1946 (ABC)
Tracks 2-17 to 2-19 - Broadcast from the Hurricane Restaurant, NYC, August 21, 1943 (MBS)

credits

Alto Saxophone – Otto Hardwick (tracks: 1-1 to 1-20)
Alto Saxophone, Clarinet – Johnny Hodges, Nat Jones (5) (tracks: 1-13 to 1-17, 2-21 to 25), Russell Procope (tracks: 1-1 to 1-16, 2-1 to 2-16)
Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Harry Carney
Bass – Junior Raglin (tracks: 1-17 to 1-20, 2-17 to 2-19), Oscar Pettiford (tracks: 1-1 to 1-16, 2-1 to 2-16)
Drums – Sonny Greer
Guitar – Fred Guy
Piano, Arranged By – Billy Strayhorn
Piano, Arranged By, Leader – Duke Ellington
Producer – Jerry Valburn
Tenor Saxophone – Al Sears (tracks: 1-1 to 1-16, 2-1 to 2-16), Ben Webster (tracks: 1-17 to 1-20, 2-17 to 2-19)
Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Chauncey Haughton (tracks: 1-17 to 1-20), Jimmy Hamilton (tracks: 1-1 to 1-16, 2-1 to 2-19)
Trombone – Claude Jones (tracks: 1-1 to 1-16, 2-1 to 2-16), Joe Nanton (tracks: 1-17 to 1-20, 2-17 to 2-19), Lawrence Brown, Wilbur De Paris (tracks: 1-1 to 1-12, 2-1 to 2-20)
Trumpet – Bernard Archer (tracks: 2-17 to 2-19), Cat Anderson (tracks: 1-1 to 1-16, 2-1 to 2-16), Francis Williams (tracks: 1-1 to 1-16, 2-1 to 2-16), Harold Baker (tracks: 1-1 to 1-16, 2-1 to 2-19), Rex Stewart (tracks: 1-17 to 1-20), Shelton Hemphill (tracks: 1-1 to 1-16, 2-1 to 2-16), Taft Jordan (tracks: 1-1 to 1-16, 2-1 to 2-19), Wallace Jones (tracks: 1-16- to 1-21, 2-22 to 2-28)
Trumpet, Violin – Ray Nance
Valve Trombone – Juan Tizol (tracks: 1-17 to 1-29)
Voice – Al Hibbler (tracks: 1-15), Ivie Anderson (tracks: 1-19), Kay Davis (tracks: 2-15,), Marion Cox (tracks: 1-4, 1-6), Ray Nance

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