Duke Ellington - Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Dolby Stereo Sound - Wind Ensemble NSYO

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Duke Ellington's "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" played by the NSYO Wind Ensemble conducted by Tim Ferrier.

"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" is a jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Bob Russell. The arrangement played here is by Ralph Ford. The tune was originally titled "Never No Lament" and was first recorded by Ellington in 1940 as a big band instrumental. Russell's lyrics and the new title were added in 1942.

Two different recordings of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", one by The Ink Spots and the other by Ellington's own band, reached #1 on the R&B charts in 1943. Both were top ten pop records, along with a version by Glen Gray. The Duke Ellington version reached number eight on the pop chart.

Duke Ellington's top 30 hit recordings include:

1927 "East St. Louis Toodle-oo"
1928 "Black and Tan Fantasy"
"Creole Love Call"
"Doin' the New Low Down"
"Diga Diga Doo"
"The Mooche"
1930 "Three Little Words"
"Ring Dem Bells"
1931 "Blue Again"
"Mood Indigo"
"Rockin' In Rhythm"
"Creole Rhapsody Parts 1 & 2"
"Limehouse Blues"
1932 "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
"Creole Rhapsody"(new version)
"Rose Room (In Sunny Roseland)"
"Moon Over Dixie"
"Blue Ramble"
1933 "Drop Me Off At Harlem"
"Sophisticated Lady"
"Stormy Weather"
"I'm Satisfied"
"In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"
1934 "Daybreak Express"
"Cocktails For Two"
"Moon Glow"
"Solitude"
"Saddest Tale"
1935 "Merry Go Round"
"In a Sentimental Mood"
"Accent On Youth"
"Cotton"
1936 "Isn't Love the Strangest Thing?"
"Love Is Like a Cigarette"
"Clarinet Lament"
"Echoes of Harlem"
"Oh Babe! Maybe Someday"
"Jazz Lips"
"Yearning For Love"
1937 "The New East St. Louis Toodle-Oo"
"There's a Lull In My Life"
"Scattin' At the Kit Kat"
"Caravan"
"Azure"
"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm"
1938 "Harmony In Harlem"
"If You Were In My Place (What Would You Do?)"
"I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart"
"The Gal From Joe's"
"Lambeth Walk"
"Prelude To a Kiss"
1940 "You, You, Darlin'"
"Ko Ko"
"At a Dixie Roadside Diner"
"Sepia Panorama"
1941 "Flamingo"
"Take the A Train"
"I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good"
1942 "Hayfoot, Strawfoot"
1943 "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
"Perdido"
"Take the A Train"(re-entry)
"Bojangles"
"A Slip of the Lip"
"Sentimental Lady"
1944 "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me"
"Main Stem"
"My Little Brown Book"
"Someone"
"I Don't Mind"
1945 "I'm Beginning To See the Light"
"Don't You Know I Care"
"I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues"
1946 "Come To Baby, Do"
1948 "Don't Be So Mean To Baby"
1953 "Satin Doll"
"Boo Dah"
1954 "Skin Deep"

Most of the musicians playing here are 12 - 19 years old. The Wind Ensemble, formed in 2001, provides training and performance opportunities for brass and woodwind players of minimum Grade 3/Gr 4 standard. The repertoire includes a variety of popular, folk, classical and jazz music.

The orchestra's website is http://www.nsyo.org.au

This performance was recorded live at the Northern Sydney Youth Orchestra concert on Sunday 16th May 2010 at Eugene Goosens Hall, ABC Centre, 700 Harris Street, Ultimo, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
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