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Duke Ellington's Famous Orchestra was a renowned jazz ensemble led by Duke Ellington. Formed in the 1920s, the orchestra gained popularity during the Swing Era of the 1930s and 1940s. Known for their innovative and sophisticated arrangements, the orchestra recorded numerous influential and groundbreaking jazz compositions. With its distinct sound and the virtuosity of its members, Duke Ellington's Famous Orchestra contributed significantly to the development of jazz music.
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Drop Me off at Harlem: 1937-1935 [2016]
Song | Duration |
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I’ve Got the World on a String | 3:14 |
The Original Recordings That Inspired the Broadway Hit After Midnight: Broadway's Cotton Cl [2014]
Song | Duration |
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I've Got the World on a String | 3:17 |
I Can't Give You Anything But Love | 3:12 |
Diga Diga Doo | 3:08 |
Stormy Weather | 2:31 |
Master Session [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Azure | 3:13 |
The Concert at the Pleyel Paris 1958 [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Tenderly | 5:30 |
The Sunny Side of the Street | 2:48 |
Dukes Place | 2:56 |
Take the "A" Train | 9:31 |
Dynamic Jazz: Duke Ellington: 50 Essential Tracks [2011]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 3:16 |
The Rough Guide to Jazz Legends: Duke Ellington (Reborn and Remastered) [2011]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood |
Watch the Closing Doors - A History of New York's Musical Melting Pot, Vol. 1: 1945-59 [2011]
Song | Duration |
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Take the "A" Train | 2:57 |
Hot Feet: A Celebration Of U.S. Dance Culture From The Jazz Age To The Post-War R&B Sce [2010]
Song | Duration |
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Diga Diga Doo | 3:09 |
Ultimate Big Band Collection: Great Theme Songs [2010]
Song | Duration |
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Take the "A" Train | 2:56 |
The Jazz-Blues-Swing-Box [2009]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 3:05 |
Great Songs of 1941 [2008]
Song | Duration |
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I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good | 3:20 |
The Best of Duke Ellington [2008]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 3:20 |
Creole Rhapsody: Duke Ellington in the Thirties [2007]
Song | Duration |
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It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing | 3:13 |
In a Sentimental Mood | 3:13 |
The Gal from Joe's | 2:58 |
I Let a Song Go out of My Heart | 3:08 |
Vol. 2: From the Cotton Club to Sweden [2007]
Song | Duration |
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Ain't Misbehavin' | 2:46 |
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree | 2:52 |
Greatest Big Bands of the Century [2006]
Song | Duration |
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Cotton Tail | 3:11 |
So You Think You Don't Like Swing [2006]
Song | Duration |
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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) | 3:03 |
For Lovers: Chet Baker/John Coltrane/Stan Getz [2005]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood [Album Version] | 4:18 |
Jazz 101 [2005]
Song | Duration |
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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) | 0:47 |
WWII Love Songs [2005]
Song | Duration |
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I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good | 3:26 |
Art Deco Icon: Tamara de Lempicka [2004]
Song | Duration |
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I Must Have That Man | 3:20 |
Giants of Swing [BMG Special Products] [2004]
Song | Duration |
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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) | 3:01 |
Live from the Cotton Club [2004]
Song | Duration |
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I Must Have That Man! | 3:30 |
All That Jazz [K-Tel UK] [2003]
Song | Duration |
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Three Little Words | 3:06 |
Big Band Classics: The Crooners in the Beginning [2003]
Song | Duration |
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Just Squeeze Me | 3:31 |
The Duke: Edward Kennedy Ellington and His Orchestra [2003]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 3:17 |
Plays Strayhorn [2002]
Song | Duration |
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Something to Live For | 2:53 |
Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin' | 3:35 |
Chelsea Bridge | 2:55 |
The Alternative Takes, Vol. 6: 1937-1938 [2002]
Song | Duration |
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Alabamy Home | 2:42 |
The Gal from Joe's | 3:09 |
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart | 3:05 |
The Alternative Takes, Vol. 7: 1938-1940 [2002]
Song | Duration |
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Mighty Like the Blues | 2:36 |
Lady in Blue | 3:14 |
I Never Felt This Way Before | 2:59 |
Cabu Collection [2001]
Song | Duration |
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Something to Live For | 2:49 |
Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin' | 3:37 |
Cotton Club Anthology: 1938 [2001]
Song | Duration |
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On the Sunny Side of the Street | 3:52 |
Rockin' in Rhythm | 4:00 |
Dinah | 2:15 |
Rose Room | 2:16 |
The Gal from Joe's | 2:52 |
Masterpieces: 1926-1949 [2001]
The Alternative Takes, Vol. 3: 1931-1933 [2001]
Song | Duration |
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St. Louis Blues | 4:32 |
Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere | 2:52 |
The Very Best of John Coltrane [Impulse] [2001]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 4:16 |
Big Band [Box Set] [2000]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 3:04 |
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart | 3:04 |
Blues & Ballads [2000]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 2:54 |
In Concert at the Pleyel Paris, 1958, Pt. 1 [2000]
Song | Duration |
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Tenderly | 5:30 |
On the Sunny Side of the Street | 2:48 |
Duke's Place | 2:56 |
Rockin' in Rhythm | 6:14 |
Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music [2000]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 4:16 |
On the Sunny Side of the Street, Vol. 1 [2000]
Song | Duration |
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Solitude | 3:13 |
Stormy Weather: 1933 [2000]
Song | Duration |
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Drop Me off in Harlem | 3:02 |
The Duke in Washington [2000]
Song | Duration |
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G.I. Jive | 1:36 |
Frankie and Johnny | 2:28 |
All the Things You Are | 4:41 |
The Duke: The Columbia Years 1927-1962 [2000]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 3:17 |
The Duke: The Essential Recordings (1927-1962) [2000]
Song | Duration |
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I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart | 3:09 |
The Very Best of Duke Ellington [2000]
Song | Duration |
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Cotton Tail | 3:13 |
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) | 3:21 |
Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care to Know) [Take 2] | 2:59 |
Chelsea Bridge | 2:56 |
100 ans de Jazz [1999]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood |
Anniversary [1999]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 3:03 |
I'm Checkin' Out, Goom Bye [1999]
Song | Duration |
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Something to Live For | 2:50 |
Chew Chew Chew (Chew Your Bubble Gum) | 2:43 |
I Never Felt This Way Before | 2:59 |
Man of the Century [1999]
Song | Duration |
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Diga Diga Doo | 3:11 |
The Reprise Studio Recordings [1999]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 3:47 |
Cote d'Azur Concerts on Verve [1998]
Song | Duration |
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Azure | 7:44 |
Gold Collection [1998]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood |
The Fabulous Swing Collection [1998]
Song | Duration |
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Cotton Tail |
Standards on Impulse [1997]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 4:15 |
1937, Vol. 2 [1996]
Song | Duration |
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Alabamy Home | 2:43 |
1938, Vol. 2 [1996]
Song | Duration |
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When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (All the Little Birdies Go ...) | 2:34 |
A Gypsy Without a Song | 2:54 |
American Legends: Armstrong Washington & Ellington [1996]
Song | Duration |
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I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart |
The Private Collection, Vol. 6: Studio Sessions, New York, 1968 [1996]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 2:53 |
Uptown Downbeat [1996]
Song | Duration |
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I've Got the World on a String | 3:20 |
In a Sentimental Mood | 3:19 |
Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Anymore) | 3:21 |
Cotton Tail | 3:13 |
In a Mellotone [1995]
Song | Duration |
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I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good | 3:21 |
Cotton Tail | 3:14 |
All Too Soon | 3:33 |
Rocks in My Bed | 3:10 |
Gold Collection [Deja Vu] [1994]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 3:17 |
The Big Band Hits of Duke Ellington [1993]
Song | Duration |
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I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart | 2:46 |
Happy Birthday, Duke! The Birthday Sessions, Vols. 1-5 [1992]
Song | Duration |
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I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart | 3:59 |
Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, Vol. 1 [1991]
Song | Duration |
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Cotton Tail | 3:08 |
In a Mellow Tone | 3:15 |
Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, Vol. 3 [1991]
Song | Duration |
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Cotton Tail | 3:08 |
In a Mellow Tone | 3:15 |
That's Jazz [1991]
Song | Duration |
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St. Louis Blues | 4:31 |
The Music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn [1988]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 7:11 |
The Cotton Club [ASV/Living Era] [1984]
Song | Duration |
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I Must Have That Man! | 3:10 |
...And His Mother Called Him Bill [1967]
Song | Duration |
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Day Dream |
Serenade to Sweden [1966]
Song | Duration |
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Azure | 2:53 |
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane [1963]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 4:12 |
Ellington '55 [Japan Bonus Tracks] [1954]
Song | Duration |
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Rockin' in Rhythm | 4:32 |
Black and Tan Fantasy | 5:12 |
Stompin' at the Savoy | 5:05 |
In the Mood | 6:01 |
Honeysuckle Rose | 4:19 |
Flying Home | 6:07 |
Body and Soul | 4:49 |
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) | 10:17 |
The Duke Plays Ellington [1953]
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 3:22 |
Azure | 3:19 |
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart | 3:07 |
C-Jam Blues
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 3:18 |
Jazz in the Charts 16/100: 1934
Song | Duration |
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Cocktails For Two | 3:27 |
Unknown Album
Song | Duration |
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In a Sentimental Mood | 3:22 |
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart | 3:07 |
White Mink Black Cotton, Vol. 2
Song | Duration |
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Diga Diga Doo | 3:07 |
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