THE INTERNATIONAL
DEMS BULLETIN
DUKE ELLINGTON MUSIC SOCIETY
07/3 December 2007 - March 2008

FOUNDER: BENNY AASLAND
HONORARY MEMBER: FATHER JOHN GARCIA GENSEL
EDITOR: SJEF HOEFSMIT
ASSISTED BY: ROGER BOYES

Voort 18b, 2328 Meerle, Belgium
Telephone: +32 3 315 75 83
Email: dems1@telenet.be

NEW RELEASES AND RE-RELEASES


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Collection CABU Jazz (Nocturne) 2 CD set
CABU525/NT88/ISBN9782849075258
"Duke Ellington at the Piano" (2006)
Une Anthologie 1928/1954
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DEMS member Claude Carrière made for Nocturne the selection of recordings for this double CD and he has generously sent us a copy.
He not only included pure Ellington solo pieces but also recordings in which the band accompanies a very prominent piano part, as in Metronome All Out and a quite outstanding 1945 version of New World a-Comin'; plus recordings made together with Billy Strayhorn like Drawing Room Blues and Tonk.
Here are the titles:

CD 1
 1. Black Beauty                1oct28
 2. Swampy River                1oct28
 3. Lot O' Fingers             17May32
 4. Mood Indigo, Solitude and  21Dec36
               Mood Indigo
 5. In a Sentimental Mood and  21Dec36
        Sophisticated Lady
 6. Soda Fountain Rag           8May37
 7. Swing, Baby, Swing     -1   7Jul37
 8. Portrait of a Lion     -1  21Mar39
 9. Mr J.B. Blues          -1   1oct40
10. Dear Old Southland     -1  14May41
11. Solitude               -1  14May41
12. Jumping Room Only          16May45
13. Frankie and Johnny         16May45
14. Metronome All Out          17Aug46
15. Dancers in Love            30Jul45
16. Drawing Room Blues         10Jan46
17. Tip Toe Topic              28Mar46
18. New World a-Comin'         16Jun45
19. There Was Nobody Looking   23Nov46
20. The Clothed Woman      -1  30Dec47
21. New York City Blues    -2  30Dec47
Why in track 5 is Sophisticated Lady mentioned as first, while it is clearly In a Sentimental Mood that came first.
Tracks 12 and 13 have been dubbed too fast.
It is remarkable that for track 21 the "normal" Columbia release was not the one dubbed, but the alternate take -2 from the LPs FDC 1023 and Up To Date 2003.

CD 2
 1. Who Knows                  13Apr53
 2. Retrospection              13Apr53
 3. B Sharp Blues              13Apr53
 4. Passion Flower             13Apr53
 5. Dancers in Love            13Apr53
 6. Reflections in D           13Apr53
 7. Melancholia                13Apr53
 8. Prelude to a Kiss          13Apr53
 9. In a Sentimental Mood      14Apr53
10. Things Ain't What They     14Apr53
                Used +o Be
11. All Too Soon               14Apr53
12. Janet                      14Apr53
13. Kinda Dukish                3Dec53
14. Montevideo                  3Dec53
15. The New Piano Roll Blues   21Sep50
16. Tonk                         Nov50
17. Johnny Come Lately           Nov50
18. In a Blue Summer Garden      Nov50
19. Great Times                  Nov50
20. Cotton Tail                 3oct50
21. C-Jam Blues                 3oct50
22. Flamingo                    3oct50
23. Bang-up Blues               3oct50
24. Band Call                  26Apr54

The sound quality of the recordings is superb. This double CD is a splendid present to be given to a friend who is not very impressed by the band, but who loves good piano playing.
I have one remark and one question. The remark is: it is impossible to take the CDs out of the cardboard envelope without touching the delicate playing side. The question is: why are the selections not put on the CDs in the correct chronological sequence?
This is the address I found on the envelope: Nocturne, 13 Rue Fernand Léger, FR75020, Paris, www.nocturne.fr
I hope that there will be another anthology in the near future from 1954 until the end, with Duke playing his parts in "Ad Lib on Nippon"; the great Mount Harissa, accompanied by his band; and with Lotus Blossom at the end.
Sjef Hoefsmit


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The Jazz Biography TJB 55062 (2004)
"Duke Ellington"
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DEMS 07/3-36

To help buyers of Ellington CDs, David Palmquist, Marcus Girvan and Bjørn Andresen are cross-referencing Ellington recordings released on CDs on their web-site. See http://www.ellingtonweb.ca/Hostedpages/CDCatalogue/CD-Lists.htm
or get there from http://www.ellingtonweb.ca
David stumbled on this CD from the series The Jazz Biography and needed some help in identifying the recordings. He successfully identified the session of the Carnegie Hall session of 29Mar64, but he couldn't find the other selections, although he was quite close. He did send me a copy and here is a list of the contents with the numbers taken from the New DESOR. The CD was mentioned by Jerry Valburn in DEMS 04/3-54.

Blue Note in Chicago, 30Jul52:  5213
 4. Bakiff               d
13. Jam with Sam         h
15. The Hawk Talks       e

Blue Note in Chicago, 13Aug52: 5216
 1. Rockin' in Rhythm    e
 2. Take the "A" Train   g
 3. Flamingo             d
 9. Flying Home          h
11. Tulip or Turnip      b
12. Tulip or Turnip      b
14. Sophisticated Lady   f

Carnegie Hall, 29Mar64:      6428
 5. Banquet              t
 6. Agra                 g
 7. Bluebird of Delhi    h
 8. Depk                 i
10. Happy Reunion        k
16. The Opener           j
17. Satin Doll           y

The two sessions from the Blue Note in 1952 have been dubbed from the CD Bandstand TKCB-30523 (see DEMS Bulletins 92/2-4 and 92/4-7) or from the CD Jazz Anthology 550292 (not mentioned in DEMS Bulletin, but the same as Bandstand minus the two selections on tracks 1 and 2, 5213 a and b). Track 9 was the end of a broadcast from the Blue Note. The very end with the comments by the announcer have been deleted through fading out on the Jazz Biography release.
Tracks 11 and 12 are both exactly the same recording, although track 12 is supposed to contain a recording of Isfahan, according to the text on the back of the jewel case. Track 12 has been faded between 3:00 and 3:08. Track 11 is OK.
Track 13 has also been faded out at the end for no reason at all.
The Carnegie Hall concert is dubbed from the double CD Jazz Up 322/323 without any improvement of the poor sound on Jazz Up.
All announcements have been deleted. The personnel listing has more errors than I care to mention.
My best advice in case you do not have the original CDs is, try to find them and you will not need these dubs.
Sjef Hoefsmit
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Classics, the Chronological Duke Ellington
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DEMS 07/3-37

After the first 10 CDs in the Neatwork series the eleventh one has not been released yet. As I wrote in DEMS 03/2-24 "It may take a while before Neatwork Vol 11 will hit the market". Here is a list of all the Neatwork CDs with the numbers of the DEMS Bulletins in which they have been mentioned.

Neatwork RP 2009  Vol  1 - 1924-1929; 02/1-18/2
Neatwork RP 2018  Vol  2 - 1930-1931; 02/1-18/3
Neatwork RP 2023  Vol  3 - 1931-1933; 02/1-18/4
Neatwork RP 2033  Vol  4 - 1933-1936; 02/2-24/2
Neatwork RP 2039  Vol  5 - 1936-1937; 02/2-24/3
Neatwork RP 2042  Vol  6 - 1937-1938; 02/3-19/1
Neatwork RP 2048  Vol  7 - 1938-1940; 02/3-19/2
Neatwork RP 2051  Vol  8 - 1940-1941; 03/1-16/2
Neatwork RP 2056  Vol  9 - 1942-1947; 03/1-16/3
Neatwork RP 2061  Vol 10 - 1947-1951; 03/2-24

As you must have noticed, I divided each description of one Neatwork CD into paragraphs carrying the number of the corresponding Classics CDs. Each paragraph started with a chronological listing of the recordings on the Neatwork CD in question and if appropriate of the Classics CD. The remarks about the Classics CDs were put between { }.
The second part of the paragraph contained the recordings which were not included in either of the two series, but from which releases do exist. It will be of interest for collectors who base their collection on the Classics and the Neatwork CDs to know what they are still missing.
In the meantime, four Classics CDs have been released. It is time to discuss them in DEMS Bulletin and not wait for the next Neatwork CD. This time I will give all the titles on the Classics CDs and remarks which are for the expected next Neatwork CDs are between ( ).

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DEMS 07/3-38

We stopped our "review" of both series at the end of Neatwork Vol. 10, which was almost at the end of the following session.
7Aug51, Rock Skippin' at the Blue Note
(3rd take, no take number assigned, UtD 2004 B2, 5123g)
{on Classics is 4th take, assigned -1, 5123h}
7Dec51, Harlem
(take-3 on UtD 2005 B1, 5127g)
{on Classics is the same as on the Columbia releases, assigned -1.
Harlem on the Columbia releases is edited from take -1 (5127e), take -3 (5127g) and the coda take -4 (5127d). Take -1 has been used until chorus 24o and the coda take -4 replaced the ending of take -3. The description in the New DESOR suggests that the replacement of the ending resulted in a 2 bars longer coda. The coda of take -1 is a bit longer and the coda of take -3 is much longer than the edited result on the Columbia releases.}
7Dec51, Bensonality
(1st take, no take number assigned, UtD 2005 B3, 5127h)
{on Classics is 2nd take, assigned -1, 5127i. Duke's introduction on piano and the very last note are edited as on the Columbia releases.}
11Dec51, Blues at Sundown
(3rd take, no take number assigned, UtD 2004 B4, 5128a)
{on Classics is 4th take, assigned -1, 5128b}
11Dec51, Duet
{on Classics is the edited version as on the Columbia releases, assigned -1, 5128c. The edition is made from the 1st take until the pass after the 3o chorus and then the 4ochorus from the 7th insert take}
11Dec51, Before My Time
(1st take, assigned -2, UtD 2005 B3, 5128d)
{on Classics is 3rd take, assigned -3 as on Columbia releases, 5128f}
11Dec51, Later
(2nd take, assigned -2, UtD 2005 B2, 5128e)
{on Classics is the edition of the 5th take until the start of 10o chorus, followed by 2nd insert take. The edition is assigned -3 as on Columbia releases, 5128g}
11Dec51, Azalea
{on Classics is 6th take, assigned -6, as on Columbia and UtD 2004 B5, 5128h}
11Dec51, Vagabonds
(3rd take, no take number assigned, UtD 2004 B6, 5128i)
{on Classics is 7th take, assigned -6, as on Columbia, 5128j}
11Dec51, Something To Live For
{on Classics is 5th take, assigned -5, as on Columbia and UtD 2004 B7, 5128k}

Still missing:
19Aug51, NYC, AFRS broadcast "Ellington Moods", 17 selections on the LPs Gotham GRC-DE1-R and GRC-DE2-R.
15Nov51, Ann Arbor, 4 selections on the CD VJC-1015-2.
5Jan52, NYC, Metropolitan Opera House, Basin Street Blues on LP Stardust 201.
6Jan52, Minneapolis, Sister Kenny Fund Appeal, 4 selections on LP Palm 30.02.
14Mar52, Hollywood, Snader Transcriptions, 8 selections on DVD PlanetSong 8628
Mar52, Unknown location, 20 selections on 4 LPs.

22Mar52, Salem, 12 selections on 3 LPs.

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25Mar52, Seattle, from concert at the Seattle Auditorium:
 1.  Skin Deep
 2.  Sultry Serenade
 3.  Sophisticated Lady
 4.  Perdido
 5.  Caravan
 6.  Harlem
 7.  The Hawk Talks
 8.  Medley:
         Don't Get Around Much Anymore
         In a Sentimental Mood
         Mood Indigo
         I'm Beginning To See the Light
         Prelude to a Kiss
         It Don't Mean a Thing
         Solitude
         I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart &
            Don't Get Around Much Anymore
 9.  Jam with Sam
tracks 10/13:
30Jun52, I Love My Lovin' Lover
(early take, no take number assigned, UtD 2004 B8, 5210a and on the double LP CBS 66607, "The World of Duke Ellington" disc 1, side 2, track 4)
{on Classics is a later take, no take number assigned, as on Columbia CG-33961}
30Jun52, Come On Home
{single take, on all releases}
30Jun52, Take the "A" Train
{single take, no take number assigned. When the recording was acquired by Columbia it received the control number 48343. Is on all releases, sometimes edited. The matrix number mentioned on Classics is the same as for Come On Home.}
1Jul52, The Mooch
{single take}

Still missing:
29Apr52, Yakima, 9 selections on 5 LPs, one (from those 9) on the CD Musica Jazz 1153.

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tracks 1/7:
1Jul52, Perdido
{single take}
29Feb52, Skin Deep
{single take}
On the cover of Columbia CK 40836, the date is given as 8Dec, but that is the date that Columbia purchased Skin Deep. Because the date was interpreted as a European date, 12Aug was often said to be the correct date for Skin Deep.
George Avakian: "Incidentally, because everyone assumed that I had produced all the tracks in "Ellington Uptown", for years afterward I kept receiving congratulations for producing Skin Deep, but it was a master purchased from Mercer Records. In later years, Louie Bellson told me that an engineer named Bert Porter had recorded it in Fresno, California (after hours in a ballroom, the name of which he didn't recall)." [Actually the next morning before leaving for the next gig.]
A quick check of Stratemann's book indicates that the date must have been 29Feb52. The story of this recording has been told by Louie in "Blue Light" 12/1 p17.
8Nov52, Ballin' the Blues
{single take}
8Nov52, Body and Soul
{single take}
22Dec52, Primping at the Prom [this is the name in the ASCAP listing. Not "Primpin' for"]
{single take}
22Dec52, The Vulture Song
{single take}
22Dec52, Follow Me
{single take}
6Apr53, first recording session for Capitol:
 8.  Satin Doll
 9.  Without a Song
10.  Cocktails for Two
7Apr53
11.  My Old Flame
12.  I Can't Give You Anything But Love
13.  Nothin', Nothin', Baby
14.  Stormy Weather
15.  Stardust
16.  Three Little Words
17.  Orson
9Apr53
18.  Boo-Dah
19.  Blossom
20.  Ballin' the Blues
21.  Warm Valley

Still missing:
30Jul52, Chicago, Blue Note, 10 selections on LP Aircheck #4 and on CD Bandstand 30523.
6Aug52, Chicago, Blue Note, Take the "A" Train on LP Rosetta Records 1302.
13Aug52, Chicago, Blue Note, 8 selections on LP Aircheck #4 and on CD Bandstand 30523.
14Nov52, NYC, Carnegie Hall, from 2 concerts 7 selections plus a Medley on the double LP DJM Records 28023 (= FDC 1005/1006).
20Nov52, NYC, Birdland, 12 selections on CD Jazz Unlimited 2036.
24Nov52, NYC, Birdland, 8 selections on CD Jazz Unlimited 2036.
26Nov, NYC, Birdland, Warm Valley on Musica Jazz 1153.
Prob. Mar53, Unknown location, Nothin', Nothin', Baby on LP TOM 10.
30Mar53, Pasadena, 11 selections plus a Medley on LP Crescendo 9045, on CD Giants of Jazz 53066 and on several Vogue CDs.

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DEMS 07/3-41

9Apr53
 1.  Flamingo
 2.  Blue Jean Beguine
 3.  Liza

13Apr53
 4.  Who Knows ?
 5.  Retrospection
 6.  B Sharp Blues
 7.  Passion Flower
 8.  Dancers in Love
 9.  Reflections in D
10.  Melancholia
11.  Prelude to a Kiss

14Apr53
12.  In a Sentimental Mood
13.  Things Ain't What They Used To Be
14.  All Too Soon
15.  Janet

30Jun53
16.  Give Me the Right
17.  Is It a Sin ?
18.  Don't Touch Me
19.  Basin Street Blues

1Jul53
20.  Big Drag
21.  Hear Me Plea
22.  Don't Ever Say Goodbye
23.  What More Can I Say ?

These are all Capitol recordings. There are no alternates circulating of these recordings.
Still missing:
30Apr53, Portland, 36 selections on LPs Stardust 203 and Jazz Guild 1004 and/or on 3 Laserlight CDs.
12Jun53, Chicago, Blue Note, 8 selections on LP Joyce 1079 from which 6 selections also on CD Jazz Archives 90.105.
24Jun53, Chicago, Blue Note, 9 selections on LP DETS 47.
Jun53, Chicago, Blue Note, 16 selections on LP DETS 48.
Jun53, Chicago, Blue Note, 8 selections on LP DETS 49.
27Jun53, Chicago, Blue Note, 7 selections on CD Jazz Archives 90.105 from which 3 selections also on LP Joyce 1079.

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3Dec53
 1.  Kinda Dukish
 2.  Montevideo
 3.  December Blue
 4.  I'm Just a Lucky So and So
 5.  It Shouldn't Happen to a Dream

5Dec53
 6.  What More Can I Say ?
 7.  Rockin' in Rhythm
 8.  Ultra de Luxe
 9.  Flying Home

15Dec53
10.  Chile Bowl
11.  Blue Moon
12.  Oh Well
13.  Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'

21Dec53
14.  Ultra de Luxe
15.  Flying Home
16.  What More Can I Say ?
17.  Serious Serenade
18.  Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'
19.  Honeysuckle Rose

28Dec53
20.  Night Time
21.  Stompin' at the Savoy

Again a CD with exclusively Capitol recordings, no alternates.
Still missing:
1Jul53, Chicago, Blue Note, 9 selections on LP DETS 47.
4oct53, Coeur D'Alène, 4 selections on LP Joyce 4014 and 3 selections on LP Ellington'86.