The Great Paris Concert is a 1973 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. For the 1989 CD reissue, 10 additional recordings from the same series of Paris concerts were added to the release. These 10 performances had previously been released on the 1967 LP Duke Ellington's Greatest Hits: Recorded "Live" In Concert (Reprise RS-6234).
Track listing
All tracks written by Duke Ellington unless otherwise noted. All tracks live.
"Kinda Dukish" – 1:52
"Rockin' in Rhythm" (Harry Carney, Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:47
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:58
"The Star-Crossed Lovers" (Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 4:18
"All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 2:35
"Theme from the Asphalt Jungle" – 4:08
"Concerto for Cootie" – 2:31
"Tutti for Cootie" (Ellington, Jimmy Hamilton) – 4:46
"Suite Thursday: Misfit Blues" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 3:39
"Suite Thursday: Schwiphti" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 2:50
"Suite Thursday: Zweet Zurzday" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 3:55
"Suite Thursday: Lay-By" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 6:25
"Perdido" (Ervin Drake, H.J. Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol) – 5:22
"The Eighth Veil" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 2:33
"Rose of the Rio Grande" (Ross Gorman, Edgar Leslie, Harry Warren) – 2:41
"Cop Out" – 6:58
"Bula" – 4:42
"Jam With Sam" – 3:51
"Happy Go Lucky Local" – 3:25
"Tone Parallel to Harlem" – 14:05
Additional tracks on 1989 re-release
"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Ellington, Bob Russell) – 2:33
"Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me" (Ellington, Russell) – 4:33
"Black and Tan Fantasy" (Ellington, Bubber Miley) – 2:43
"Creole Love Call" – 2:08
"The Mooche" – 5:38
"Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 2:53
"Pyramid" (Ellington, Irving Gordon, Mills, Tizol) – 3:25
"The Blues" – 3:36
"Echoes of Harlem" – 3:32
"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