Duke Ellington

This new CD features 19 previously unreleased tracks from ”The Stockpile” recorded betweeen 1970 and 1972, a very prolific period for Duke Ellington. Here you will find 13 titles never before issued in any form, plus 6 new versions of favorites like “I Got It Bad” and “Mood Indigo” and lesser known pieces like “Second Line” and “New York, New York”.

This is the fifth in the series of CDs issued by Storyville, starting in 2001 with The Toga Brava Suite, and followed by The Duke In Munich, “THE JAYWALKER”, and “THE PIANO PLAYER” (see below).

Duke Ellington once said, when asked which of his music he prefered: “The next one”. Here you have 19 brand new “next ones” in splendid sound and performance by Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra.

TRACKS:

01. Rext
02. Flute
03. Soft
04. Mixt
05. Alerado
06. Afrique
07. Second Line
08. RTM
09. Sophisticated Lady    
10. Big Luv
11. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
12. Looking For My Man
13. No title
14. Pretty Girl    
15. Dreaming By The Fire
16. Pat Your Feet (Rick's Blues)
17. Mood Indigo
18. I'm Afraid
19. New York, New York