Duke Ellington

2-CD SET

For a band that had been on the road for 32 years, the six day engagement at Gröna Lund Tivoli in Stockholm offered Duke Ellington And His Orchestra the rare leisure of staying in the same place for several days.

The orchestra played at the outdoor stage at Gröna Lund every evening, but on the 8th of June 1963 they later moved to an indoor restaurant called Dance Inn. Here, the band played in a relaxed setting for dancing. They did 2 long sets that you can hear on this 2 CD set. “The atmosphere was at a peak level both on the scene and on the dancefloor”, Leif Anderson observed in “Orkester Journalen”
- the legendary Swedish jazz magazine

DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA:

Cootie Williams, Eddie Preston, Rolf Ericson (tp)
Ray Nance (tp, vln, vo),
Lawrence Brown, Chuck Conners, Buster Cooper (tb)
Jimmy Hamilton (ts, cl), Russell Procope (as, cl) Johnny Hodges (as),
Paul Gonsalves (ts), Harry Carney (bs, cl, bcl),
Duke Ellington (p), Ernie Shepard (b), Sam Woodyard (dr)

Dance Inn, Gröna Lund Tivoli, Stockholm on the 8th of June 1963.

CD 1:

01. Boo-Dah
02. Laura
03. Main Stem
04. Take the "A" Train
05. Suite Thursday: Misfit Blues / Schwiphti / Zweet Thursday / Lay-By
06. Deep Purple
07. Silk Lace
09. Tootie for Cootie
10. The Star Crossed Lovers
11. Things Ain't What They Used to Be

CD 2:

01. Intermission Music by Duke Ellington
02. I Didn't Know About You
03. All of Me
04. Jeep's Blues
05. Rose of the Rio Grande
06. Blacl and Tan Fantasy
07. Kinda Dukish / Rockin' in Rhythm
08. In a Sentimental Mood
09. Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool
10. Lullaby of Birdland
11.Mood Indigo
12. Sophisticated Lady
13. I Let a Song Go out of My Heart / Don't Get Around Much Anymore
14. One More Once or One More Bossa Nova
15. One More Once or One More Twist