Essentially Ellington: The JLCO Recordings, 1999-2025
Album by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis
Essentially Ellington: The JLCO Recordings, 1999-2025 is a compilation album by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, released in 2025. The album has big band jazz rooted in Duke Ellington's music, with brass-led voicings and swing-influenced rhythms, and it records the orchestra's evolving approach from 1999 to 2025.

First released: 30th April 2025
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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
