Album · 1991
Tracklist
"Please Forgive Me" (Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills) - 2:59
"Lambeth Walk" (Douglas Furber, Noel Gay) - 2:27
"Prelude to a Kiss" (Ellington, Gordon, Mills) - 2:56
"Hip Chic" - 2:55
"Buffet Flat" - 2:24
"Mighty Like the Blues" (Leonard Feather) - 2:34
"Jazz Potpourri" - 2:55
"T.T. on Toast" (Ellington, Mills) - 2:45
"Battle of Swing" - 2:56
"Blue Light" - 2:36
"Blue Light" [alternate take] - 2:40
"Boy Meets Horn" (Ellington, Rex Stewart) - 2:59
"Slap Happy" - 2:44
Line-up/Musicians
Duke Ellington – piano
Rex Stewart - cornet
Wallace Jones, Cootie Williams - trumpet
Lawrence Brown, Joe Nanton - trombone
Juan Tizol - valve trombone
Barney Bigard - tenor saxophone, clarinet
Johnny Hodges - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone
Otto Hardwick - clarinet, alto saxophone
Harry Carney - baritone saxophone, clarinet, alto saxophone
Fred Guy - guitar
Billy Taylor - bass
Sonny Greer - drums
About this release
Portrait
Recorded at ARC-Brunswick Studios in New York on August 4, 1938 (track 1), August 9, 1938 (tracks 2-5), September 2, 1938 (track 6), December 19, 1938 (tracks 7-9), and December 22, 1938 (tracks 10-13)
Thanks to snobb for the addition
