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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 2821050, member: 7631"] One that I'm surprised that I hadn't thought of is one of the earliest albums: [I]Masterpieces by Ellington[/I], issued in about 1950. It has three familiar pieces Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, and Solitude, and one that I don't think had been recorded before, the Tattooed Bride. The first two had vocals by Yvonne (I think her last name was something like Lauzanne?). The cool thing about this album is that my father had 78's of Ellington, which we listened to when we still had a record player that would do 78's. When I was about 10-12 I got him a double album that had probably 25 or so of the original recordings from the 20's and 30's. So I was used to 2-3 minute Ellington recordings. This album was one of the first, if not the first time a jazz big band was able to do "concert" arrangements of 10-15 minutes. Here's Mood Indigo with Yvonne: [MEDIA=youtube]Yrt79lROIaA[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]