Individual Songs
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo 1927
Black & Tan Fantasy 1927
Black Beauty 1928
Creole Love Call 1928
Jubilee Stomp 1928
The Mooche 1929
Dreamy Blues/Mood Indigo 1931
Rockin' in Rhythm 1931
Creole Rhapsody 1931
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 1932
Sophisticated Lady 1933
Daybreak Express 1934
Delta Serenade 1935
In a Sentimental Mood 1935
Reminiscing in Tempo 1935
Clarinet Lament 1936
Caravan 1937
Azure 1937
Diga Diga Doo 1937
Blue Reverie 1937
Pyramid 1938
Prelude to a Kiss 1938
Battle of Swing 1939
Blue Light 1939
Subtle Lament 1939
Sergeant was Shy 1939
Ko-Ko 1939
Concerto for Cootie 1939
Cotton Tail 1940
All too Soon 1940
Warm Valley 1941
Take the "A" Train 1941, composed by Billy Strayhorn
I Got it Bad (and That Ain't Good) 1941
Don't Get Around Much Anymore 1942
Moon Mist 1942
Diminuendo 1943
Crescendo in Blue 1943, composed by Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn
Across the Train Blues 1943
Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me 1943
I'm Beginning to See the Light 1944
Perfume Suite 1944
Harlem 1950
Lonesome Valley 1956
A Drum Is a Women 1956, composed by Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn
Monologue 1957
Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald 1957
Satin Doll 1958, composed by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, & Johnny Mercer
Midnight Indigo 1959
Such Sweet Thunder 1959
Sunswept Sunday 1959
Black, Brown, and Beige 1945
Newport Jazz Festival Suite 1956
A Drum Is a Woman 1956
Royal Ancestry (Portrait of Ella Fitzgerald) 1957
Shakespearean Suite 1957
Toot Suite 1958
Jump for Joy 1959
Anatomy of a Murder 1959
The Ellington Suites (includes the Queens Suite) 1959
Nutcracker Suite 1960
Paris Blues 1961
The Far East Suite 1964
The Second Sacred Concert 1967
...And His Mother Called Him Bill 1967
New Orleans Suite 1971
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