Boxset / Compilation · 1990
Tracklist
Disc one
"You, You Darlin'" (M.K. Jerome, Jack Scholl) – 3:19
"Jack the Bear" – 3:15
"Ko Ko" – 2:39
"Morning Glory" (Ellington, Rex Stewart) – 3:15
"So Far, So Good" (Jack Lawrence, Jimmy Mundy, E.G. White) – 2:50
"Conga Brava" (Ellington, Juan Tizol) – 2:54
"Concerto for Cootie" – 3:19
"Me and You" – 2:54
"Cotton Tail" – 3:08
"Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Anymore)" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 3:15
"Dusk" – 3:19
"Bojangles" – 2:50
"A Portrait of Bert Williams" – 3:09
"Blue Goose" – 3:21
"Harlem Air Shaft" – 2:57
"At a Dixie Roadside Diner" – (Joe Burke, Edgar Leslie) – 2:45
"All Too Soon" (Ellington, Carl Sigman) – 3:28
"Rumpus in Richmond" – 2:46
"My Greatest Mistake" (Jack Fulton), Jack O'Brien) – 3:27
"Sepia Panorama" – 3:20
"There Shall Be No Night" (Gladys Shelley, Abner Silver) – 3:05
"In a Mellow Tone" (Ellington, Milt Gabler) – 3:19
Disc two
"Five O'Clock Whistle" (Kim Gannon, Gene Irwin, Josef Myrow) – 3:18
"Warm Valley" – 3:20
"The Flaming Sword" – 3:06
"Across the Track Blues" – 2:58
"Chloe" (Gus Kahn, Neil Moret) – 3:24
"I Never Felt This Way Before" (Al Dubin, Ellington) – 3:23
"The Sidewalks of New York" (James W. Blake, Charles B. Lawlor) – 3:14
"Flamingo" (Edmund Anderson, Ted Grouya) – 3:22
"The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look Like You" – 3:19
"Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:54
"Jumpin' Punkins" – 3:33
"John Hardy's Wife" – 3:28
"Blue Serge" – 3:20
"After All" (Strayhorn) – 3:19
"Bakiff" (Tizol) – 3:23
"Are You Sticking?" – 3:02
"Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'" (Ellington, Gaines, Strayhorn) – 3:33
"The Giddybug Gallop" – 3:29
"Chocolate Shake" (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:50
"I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Ellington, Webster) – 3:17
"Clementine" (Strayhorn) – 2:53
"Brown-Skin Gal (In the Calico Gown)" (Ellington, Webster) – 3:06
Disc three
"Jump for Joy" (Ellington, Sid Kuller, Webster) – 2:50
"Moon Over Cuba" (Ellington, Tizol) – 3:09
"Five O'Clock Drag" – 2:49
"Rocks in My Bed" – 3:06
"Bli-Blip" (Ellington, Kuller) – 3:03
"Chelsea Bridge" (Strayhorn) – 2:52
"Rain Check" (Strayhorn) – 2:28
"What Good Would It Do?" (Harry James, Buddy Pepper) – 2:44
"I Don't Know What Kind of Blues I Got" – 3:13
"Perdido" (Ervin Drake, H.J. Lengsfelder, Tizol) – 3:08
"C Jam Blues" (Barney Bigard, Ellington) – 2:37
"Moon Mist" – 2:58
"What Am I Here For?" (Ellington, Frankie Laine) – 3:28
"I Don't Mind" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 2:49
"Someone" – 3:09
"My Little Brown Book" (Strayhorn) – 3:13
"Main Stem" – 2:47
"Johnny Come Lately" (Strayhorn) – 2:39
"Hayfoot, Strawfoot" (Drake, Lengsfelder, Paul McGrane) – 2:30
"Sentimental Lady" – 2:58
"A Slip of the Lip (Can Sink a Ship)" (Ellington, Henderson) – 2:54
"Sherman Shuffle" – 2:38
Line-up/Musicians
Ivie Anderson — vocals
Barney Bigard — clarinet, tenor sax
Jimmy Blanton — bass
Lawrence Brown — trombone
Harry Carney — clarinet, alto sax, baritone sax
Duke Ellington — piano
Sonny Greer — drums
Fred Guy — guitar
Otto Hardwick — alto sax
Chauncey Haughton — clarinet, tenor sax
Johnny Hodges — clarinet, alto sax, soprano sax
Herb Jeffries — vocals
Wallace Jones — trumpet
Ray Nance — trumpet, violin, vocals
Joe Nanton — trombone
Alvin "Junior" Raglin — bass
Rex Stewart — cornet
Billy Strayhorn — piano
Juan Tizol — valve trombone
Ben Webster — tenor sax
Cootie Williams — trumpet
About this release
Bluebird Records (RCA)
Reissued in 2003 as "Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band"(Bluebird Records (RCA),bonuses)
Thanks to snobb for the addition