Duke Ellington, with various ensembles, including "Earl Jackson and his Musical Champions", a pseudonym
Compact disc.
Program notes by Steven Lasker, including discographical details, laid in container.
Recorded 1926-1931 at Brunswick's studio, 7th Ave., New York City.
[cd. 1]. 1926-1928. Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra. East St. Louis toodle-o [1st version] ; Birmingham breakdown [1st version] ; Immigration blues ; The creeper [1st & 2nd takes] ; New Orleans low-down ; Song of the cotton field / Porter Grainger ; Birmingham breakdown [2nd version] ; East St. Louis toodle-o [2nd version] -- The Washingtonians. Black and tan fantasy ; Soliloquy / Rube Bloom -- Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra. Red hot band / Dorothy Fields, Dan Healy, Jimmy McHugh ; Doin' the frog / Fields, Healy, McHugh -- The Washingtonians. Take it easy -- Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra. Jubilee stomp -- The Hotsy Totsy Gang. Black beauty [1st take] -- The Washingtonians. Black beauty [2nd take] -- Duke Ellington and his orchestra. Yellow dog blues / W.C. Handy ; Tishomingo blues / Spencer Williams -- Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra. Awful sad ; The mooche ; Louisiana / Andy Razaf, Bob Schaefer, J.C. Johnson
[cd. 2] 1929. The Jungle Band. Doin' the voom voom ; Tiger rag : parts I [takes A & B] and II / Nick LaRocca ; Rent party blues ; Paducah / Don Redman ; Harlem flat blues ; (What did I do to be so) Black and blue / Andy Razaf, Harry Brooks, Fats Waller ; Jungle jamboree / Razaf, Brooks, Waller ; Ain't misbehavin' [with Bill Robinson, vocal; issued as being performed by Irving Mills and his Hotsy Totsy Gang] / Razaf, Brooks, Waller ; Doin' the new low down [same as previous title with Robinson, tap-dancing] / Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh ; Jolly wog ; Jazz convulsions -- The Six Jolly Jesters. Six or seven times [takes A & B] / Irving Mills, Fats Waller ; Goin' nuts / Irving Mills ; Oklahoma stomp [takes A & B] -- The Jungle Band. Sweet mama ; Wall Street wail [takes A & B] ; Cincinnati daddy
[cd. 3] 1930-31. The Jungle Band. Maori (A Samoan dance) [1st version] / W.H. Tyers ; When you're smiling [takes A & B] / Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay ; Maori (A Samoan dance) [2nd version, takes A & B] / Tyers ; Admiration / Tyers ; Double check stomp / Bigard, Mills ; Accordion Joe [takes A & B] / Dale Wimbrow, Charles Cornell ; Cotton Club stomp [takes A & B] / Ellington, Hodges, Carney ; Runnin' wild / Joe Grey, Leo Wood, A.H. Gibbs ; Mood Indigo [originally issued as Dreamy blues] ; Home again blues / Irving Berlin, Harry Akst ; Wang-wang blues / Gus Mueller, Buster Johnson, Henry Busse -- "Earl Jackson and his Musical Champions". Rockin' chair / Hoagy Carmichael -- The Jungle Band. Rockin' in rhythm ; Twelfth Street rag / James S. Sumner, Euday L. Bowman -- "Earl Jackson and his Musical Champions". The peanut vendor / Marion Sunshine, L. Wolfe Gilbert, Moises Simons -- The Jungle Band. Creole rhapsody : part I ; part II [take A] -- Duke Ellington and his orchestra. Creole rhapsody : part II [take AA]; Is that religion? / Maceo Pinkard, Mitchell Parish