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Essentially Ellington: The JLCO Recordings, 1999-2025

Wynton Marsalis · 2025

672 min · 166 tracks · blues

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

Disc 1

  • 1 Launching Pad (1999) 7:26
  • 2 Main Stem (1999) 2:52
  • 3 Mood Indigo (1999) 3:09
  • 4 Never No Lament (Don’t Get Around Much Anymore) (1999) 3:09
  • 5 Oclupaca (From Latin American Suite) (1999) 4:37
  • 6 Rockabye River (1999) 2:44
  • 7 Portrait of Louis Armstrong (From New Orleans Suite) (1999) 3:09
  • 8 Sophisticated Lady (1999) 3:45

Disc 2

  • 1 Anitra’s Dance (From Peer Gynt Suite) (2000) 2:57
  • 2 Concerto for Cootie (2000) 3:48
  • 3 Perdido (2000) 4:35
  • 4 The Mooche (2000) 3:39
  • 5 The Peanut Vendor (2000) 5:10
  • 6 The Shepherd (Who Looks Over the Night Flock) (2000) 7:39
  • 7 Star‐Crossed Lovers (From Such Sweet Thunder) (2000) 3:51

Disc 3

  • 1 Blue Cellophane (2001) 3:04
  • 2 Blue Feeling (2001) 3:33
  • 3 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (2001) 2:59
  • 4 Pyramid (2001) 3:10
  • 5 Rocks in My Bed (2001) 4:05
  • 6 Rumpus in Richmond (2001) 2:34
  • 7 Almost Cried (From Anatomy of a Murder) (2001) 2:23
  • 8 Tutti for Cootie (2001) 6:13

Disc 4

  • 1 All Heart (2002) 3:34
  • 2 It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) (2002) 3:32
  • 3 Raincheck (2002) 2:29
  • 4 Such Sweet Thunder (2002) 3:08
  • 5 Sultry Sunset (2002) 3:21
  • 6 The Eighth Veil (2002) 2:54
  • 7 Things Ain’t What They Used to Be (2002) 3:00
  • 8 Zweet Zursday (2002) 3:46

Disc 5

  • 1 Caravan (2003) 2:57
  • 2 Harlem Airshaft (2003) 2:56
  • 3 I’ve Just Seen Her (2003) 5:16
  • 4 Jump for Joy (2003) 2:53
  • 5 Ko‐Ko (2003) 2:39
  • 6 Kinda Dukish / Rockin’ in Rhythm (2003) 5:34

Disc 6

  • 1 Bli‐Blip (2004) 3:05
  • 2 Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue (2004) 10:06
  • 3 Jack the Bear (2004) 3:20
  • 4 Stompy Jones (2004) 5:58
  • 5 Rhapsody in Blue (2004) 6:16
  • 6 Sugar Rum Cherry (2004) 3:10

Disc 7

  • 1 Happy‐Go‐Lucky Local (2005) 5:24
  • 2 I Didn’t Know About You (2005) 4:16
  • 3 Isfahan (2005) 4:20
  • 4 Purple Gazelle (2005) 3:09
  • 5 Ring Dem Bells (2005) 2:40
  • 6 V.I.P.’s Boogie (2005) 3:21

Disc 8

  • 1 Across the Track Blues (2006) 3:09
  • 2 All Too Soon (2006) 4:12
  • 3 Idiom ’59 – Part II (2006) 4:30
  • 4 Braggin’ in Brass (2006) 2:52
  • 5 I’m Just a Lucky So and So (2006) 3:40
  • 6 Latin American Sunshine (From Latin American Suite) (2006) 6:55

Disc 9

  • 1 Flaming Sword (2007) 3:48
  • 2 Jumpin’ Punkins (2007) 3:55
  • 3 Old Man Blues (2007) 3:17
  • 4 Joe Avery’s Blues (2007) 4:18
  • 5 Sophisticated Lady (2007) 4:06
  • 6 C Jam Blues (2007) 7:16

Disc 10

  • 1 Blue Serge (2008) 3:43
  • 2 Jam‐A‐Ditty (2008) 3:15
  • 3 Theme (From the Asphalt Jungle) (2008) 4:03
  • 4 The Mooche (2008) 3:26
  • 5 Don’t Get Around Much Anymore (2008) 2:24
  • 6 Blue Ramble (2008) 3:34

Disc 11

  • 1 Again and Again (2009) 5:31
  • 2 Jeep’s Blues (2009) 4:31
  • 3 Moon Over Cuba (2009) 5:27
  • 4 Movin’ Uptown (From Echoes of San Juan Hill) (2009) 5:25
  • 5 Perdido (2009) 4:16
  • 6 Symphony in Riffs (2009) 4:58

Disc 12

  • 1 Tippin’ on the Q.T. (2011) 6:20
  • 2 Concerto for Cootie (2011) 3:22
  • 3 Rockin’ in Rhythm (2011) 6:48
  • 4 Portrait of Lois Armstrong (From New Orleans Suite) (2011) 4:58
  • 5 Black and Tan Fantasy (2011) 8:51
  • 6 Every Day (I Have the Blues) (2011) 8:06

Disc 13

  • 1 Royal Garden Blues (2013) 3:17
  • 2 Echoes of Harlem (2013) 3:34
  • 3 Bonga (2013) 3:14
  • 4 Lightnin’ (2013) 3:14
  • 5 Blood Count (2013) 4:24
  • 6 The Second Line (From New Orleans Suite) (2013) 5:52

Disc 14

  • 1 Chinoiserie (From the Afro‐Eurasian Eclipse) (2014) 4:43
  • 2 Dissonance in Blues (2014) 3:20
  • 3 Teri (2014) 3:06
  • 4 Uptown Downbeat (2014) 3:38
  • 5 Perdido (2014) 5:30
  • 6 Flirtibird (From Anatomy of a Murder) (2014) 2:19
  • 7 I Like the Sunrise (From the Liberian Suite) (2014) 4:36
  • 8 Nancy Jo (2014) 2:53

Disc 15

  • 1 Bourbon Street Jingling Jollies (From New Orleans Suite) (2015) 4:04
  • 2 Brasilliance (From Latin American Suite) (2015) 3:55
  • 3 Chelsea Bridge (2015) 3:00
  • 4 Cotton Club Stomp (2015) 2:50
  • 5 Memphis Blues (2015) 2:56
  • 6 Total Jazz (2015) 3:31

Disc 16

  • 1 Magnolias Dripping With Molasses (2016) 4:45
  • 2 Down South Camp Meeting (2016) 3:19
  • 3 Laura (2016) 4:19
  • 4 Christopher Columbus (2016) 3:00
  • 5 St. Louis Blues (2016) 2:56
  • 6 Blue Goose (2016) 3:11

Disc 17

  • 1 Carnegie Blues (2017) 2:40
  • 2 So Easy (2017) 2:42
  • 3 Sugar Hill Penthouse (2017) 4:55
  • 4 Stay on It (2017) 3:11
  • 5 If You Could See Me Now (2017) 3:13
  • 6 Dameron Stomp (2017) 3:09
  • 7 Bojangles (2017) 2:55
  • 8 East St. Louis Toodle‐Oo (2017) 3:21

Disc 18

  • 1 Banquet Scene (From Timon of Athens) (2018) 2:19
  • 2 Blue Minor (2018) 3:12
  • 3 Harlem Congo (2018) 3:20
  • 4 I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues (2018) 5:13
  • 5 Lindy Hopper’s Delight (2018) 2:46
  • 6 Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) (2018) 2:36
  • 7 Ready, Go! (2018) 6:23
  • 8 The Sheik of Araby (2018) 3:20

Disc 19

  • 1 Afro‐Bossa (Bula) (2019) 4:32
  • 2 Blues to Be There (2019) 6:28
  • 3 Bugle Call Rag (2019) 3:18
  • 4 Little Karin (2019) 3:56
  • 5 Solid Old Man (2019) 3:41
  • 6 Stablemates (2019) 4:22
  • 7 Straw Boss (2019) 8:22
  • 8 Whisper Not (2019) 5:11

Disc 20

  • 1 Caravan (2021) 3:35
  • 2 Cotton Tail (2021) 3:25
  • 3 Harlem Airshaft (2021) 2:54
  • 4 I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) (2021) 3:08
  • 5 Isfahan (2021) 4:09
  • 6 Rockin’ in Rhythm (2021) 5:50

Disc 21

  • 1 Black Butterfly (2022) 3:04
  • 2 Blue and Sentimental (2022) 3:19
  • 3 Trombonio‐Bustoso‐Issimo (aka “Trombone Buster”) (2022) 4:07
  • 4 Good Morning Blues (2022) 3:05
  • 5 Blue Room (2022) 3:17
  • 6 Topsy (2022) 3:12

Disc 22

  • 1 Blues a La Machito (2023) 3:13
  • 2 Chloe (Song of the Swamp) (2023) 3:34
  • 3 Congo Mulence (2023) 3:05
  • 4 Fancy Dan (2023) 4:37
  • 5 Kenya (2023) 3:50
  • 6 Oyeme (2023) 3:30
  • 7 Portrait of Sidney Bechet (2023) 4:10
  • 8 Just Scratchin’ the Surface (2023) 2:57

Disc 23

  • 1 Addi (2024) 3:50
  • 2 Boo‐Dah (2024) 3:14
  • 3 Exposition Swing (2024) 3:20
  • 4 The Giddybug Gallop (2024) 3:53
  • 5 Golden Cress (2024) 3:04
  • 6 Miss Lucy (2024) 3:18
  • 7 Rent Party Blues (2024) 3:41
  • 8 Silk Lace (2024) 2:43

Disc 24

  • 1 Aristocracy À La Jean Lafitte (From New Orleans Suite) (2025) 4:12
  • 2 Black Beauty (2025) 3:19
  • 3 Blues for New Orleans (From New Orleans Suite) (2025) 8:10
  • 4 Elegy to a Man (2025) 4:58
  • 5 Mullenium (2025) 8:01
  • 6 The Opener (2025) 2:49
  • 7 Thruway (2025) 8:29
  • 8 Thanks for the Beautiful Land on the Delta (From New Orleans Suite) (2025) 3:49
  • 9 What Am I Here For? (2025) 3:36

Reference: MusicBrainz