The Great Paris Concert

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The Great Paris Concert is a 1973^[2] live double album by jazz pianist Duke Ellington preserving pieces of a series of performances given in Paris during February 1963, a decade prior the release. Several of the tracks were previously edited and included in Duke Ellington's Greatest Hits. Those edited tracks were included on the 1989 CD re-release of The Great Paris Concert.

Track listing

All tracks written by Duke Ellington unless otherwise noted. All tracks live.

1. "Kinda Dukish" – 1:52
2. "Rockin' in Rhythm" (Harry Carney, Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:47
3. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:58
4. "The Star-Crossed Lovers" (Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 4:18
5. "All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 2:35
6. "Theme from the Asphalt Jungle" – 4:08
7. "Concerto for Cootie" – 2:31
8. "Tutti for Cootie" (Ellington, Jimmy Hamilton) – 4:46
9. "Suite Thursday: Misfit Blues" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 3:39
10. "Suite Thursday: Schwiphti" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 2:50
11. "Suite Thursday: Zweet Zurzday" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 3:55
12. "Suite Thursday: Lay-By" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 6:25
13. "Perdido" (Ervin Drake, H.J. Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 5:22
14. "The Eighth Veil" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 2:33
15. "Rose of the Rio Grande" (Ross Gorman, Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren) – 2:41
16. "Cop Out" – 6:58
17. "Bula" – 4:42
18. "Jam With Sam" – 3:51
19. "Happy Go Lucky Local" – 3:25
20. "Tone Parallel to Harlem" – 14:05

Additional tracks on 1989 re-release

21. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 2:33
22. "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (Ellington, Russell) – 4:33
23. "Black and Tan Fantasy" (Ellington, Bubber Miley) – 2:43
24. "Creole Love Call" – 2:08
25. "The Mooche" – 5:38
26. "Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 2:53
27. "Pyramid" (Ellington, Irving Gordon, Mills, Tizol) – 3:25
28. "The Blues" – 3:36
29. "Echoes of Harlem" – 3:32
30. "Satin Doll" – (Ellington, Mercer, Strayhorn) – 2:27

Personnel

• Cat Anderson – trumpet
• Lawrence Brown – trombone
• Roy Burrowes – trumpet
• Harry Carney – clarinet, baritone saxophone
• Chuck Connors – trombone
• Buster Cooper – trombone
• Duke Ellington – piano
• Paul Gonsalves – tenor saxophone
• Milt Grayson – vocals
• Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, tenor saxophone
• Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone
• Ray Nance – violin, cornet
• Russell Procope – clarinet, alto saxophone
• Ernie Shepard – bass
• Cootie Williams – trumpet
• Sam Woodyard – drums
• Stanley Dance – liner notes
• Ilhan Mimaroglu – reissue producer, production coordination, editing, sequencing, original collating
• Giuseppe Pino – liner notes, photography
• Popsie – liner notes
• Bob Porter – reissue producer
• Fred Seligo – liner notes

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