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Released
  
1973

Producer
  
Bob Thiele

Genre
  
Jazz

Release date
  
1973

Label
  
Flying Dutchman

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Recorded
  
September 4, 5, & 6, 1973

It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (1973)
  
Music, Music, Music (1973)

It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (1973)
  
Third Sacred Concert (1973)

Artists
  
Duke Ellington, Teresa Brewer, Ivie Anderson

Jazz albums
  
The Suites - New York 1968 & 1, Studio Sessions New York, Studio Sessions - New York, Studio Sessions New York, Studio Sessions 1957 & 1

It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing is a studio album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington and singer Teresa Brewer originally released on Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman label in 1973. It features the final studio recordings by Ellington.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars.

Track listing

All compositions by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Don George except as indicated
  1. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" (Ellington, Irving Mills)
  2. "I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues"
  3. "Satin Doll" (Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Mercer)
  4. "Mood Indigo' (Barney Bigard, Ellington, Mills)
  5. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Ellington, Bob Russell)
  6. "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Ellington, George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James)
  7. "I've Got to Be a Rug Cutter"
  8. "I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)" (Ellington, Paul Francis Webster)
  9. "Tulip or Turnip (Tell Me, Tell Me, Dream Face)"
  10. "It's Kind of Lonesome Out Tonight"
  11. "Poco Mucho"
  • Recorded in New York on September 4 (tracks 3, 5, 8 & 10), September 5 (tracks 1, 2, 6 & 7), and September 6 (tracks 4, 9 & 11), 1973.

    • Personnel

  • Duke Ellington – piano
  • Teresa Brewer - vocals
  • Ray Nance - cornet (tracks 1-3, 5-8 & 10)
  • Johnny Coles (tracks 1-3, 5-8 & 10), Mercer Ellington (tracks 1 & 7), Tyree Glenn (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 & 11), Barrie Lee Hall (tracks 1-3, 5-8 & 10), Money Johnson (tracks 1-3, 5-8 & 10), Joe Newman (tracks 1 & 7), Jimmy Nottingham (tracks 1 & 7), Jimmy Owens (tracks 1 & 7), Ernie Royal, (tracks 1 & 7) - trumpet
  • Art Baron (tracks 1-3, 5-8 & 10), Vince Prudente - trombone
  • Chuck Connors - bass trombone (tracks 1-3, 5-8 & 10)
  • Harold Minerve - alto saxophone, flute (tracks 1-3, 5-8 & 10)
  • Russell Procope - alto saxophone (tracks 1-8, 10 & 11)
  • Harold Ashby - clarinet, tenor saxophone (tracks 1-3, 5-8 & 10)
  • Norris Turney - tenor saxophone (tracks 1-3, 5-8 & 10)
  • Harry Carney - baritone saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet (tracks 1-8, 10 & 11)
  • Joe Beck - guitar (tracks 4, 9 & 11)
  • Joe Benjamin - bass (tracks 1-3, 5-8 & 10)
  • Herb Bushler - electric bass (tracks 4, 9 & 11)
  • Quentin White (tracks 1-3, 5-8 & 10), Pretty Purdie (tracks 4, 9 & 11) - drums
  • Bunny Briggs - vocals (tracks 1, 7 & 9)
  • James Mtume - conga (track 11)

    • Songs

    1It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing2:06
    2I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues3:19
    3Satin Doll2:27

    References

    It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (album) Wikipedia
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