Personnel:
Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Jimmy Blanton
Reference: DRCD 11170
The complete and definitive edition of the studio recordings, with Ben Webster on tenor sax and Jimmy Blanton on bass.
Only master takes, without alternates.
Tacklisting:
CD 1:
1. Trucking
2. Cotton
3. Accent on Youth
4. In a jam
5. Exposition swing
6. Updown downbeat
7. Solitude
8. Stormy weather
9. Mood indigo
10. Sophisticated Lady
11. You, you darlin'
12. Jack the bear
13. Ko-ko
14. Morning glory
15. So far, so good
16. Conga brava
17. Concerto for Cootie
18. Me and you
19. Cotton tail
20. Never no lament
21. Dusk
22. Bojangles
CD 2:
1. A portrait of Bert Williams
2. Blue goose
3. Harlem airshaft
4. At a Dixie roadside dinner
5. All too soon
6. Rumpus in Richmond
7. My greatest mistake
8. Sepia panorama
9. There shall be no night
10. In a mellotone
11. Five o'clock whistle
12. The flaming sword
13. Warn valley
14. Across the track blues
15. Chloe
16. I never felt this way before
17. Without a song
18. My sunday gal
19. Mobile bay
20. Linger awhile
21. Charlie the chulo
22. Lament for javanette
CD 3:
1. A lull at dawn
2. Ready Eddy
3. The sidewalks of New York
4. Flamingo
5. The girl in my dream tries to look like you
6. Take the "A" train
7. Jumpin' Perkins
8. John Hardy's wife
9. Blue Serge
10. After all
11. Bakiff
12. Are you sticking?
13. Just a-sittin' and a-rockin'
14. The giddybug gallop
15. Chocolate shake
16. I got it bad
17. Clementine
18. The brown-skin gal
19. Jump for joy
20. Moon over Cuba
21. Some saturday
22. Subtle slough
CD 4:
1. Menelik-The lion of Judah
2. Poor bubber
3. Five o'clock drag
4. Rocks in my bed
5. Bli-blip
6. Raincheck
7. What good would it go?
8. I don't know what kind of blues I got
9. Chelsea bridge
10. Perdido
11. The "C" jam blues
12. Moon mist
13. What am I here for?
14. I don't mind
15. Someone
16. My little brown book
17. Main stem
18. Johnny come lately
19. Hayfoot, strawfoot
20. Sentimental lady
21. A slip of the lip
22. Sherman shuffle