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  (All of a Sudden) My Heart Sings   (I Don't Stand) A Ghost Of A Chance (With You)   (I Want) Something to Live For   (You’re Just an Old) Antidisestablishmentarianis...   A Ghost of a Chance   A Beautiful Friendship   A Sailboat in the Moonlight   A Slip of the Lip (Can Sink a Ship)   Afrique Take 3, Vocal   Alabamy Home   Alerado Take 1   Alice Blue Gown   All My Loving   All of Me   All of Me [DVD][*]   All of Me [Live]   All the Things You Are   All the Things You Are [#]   All the Things You Are [Alternate Version 1]   All the Things You Are [Take 1][*]   All the Things You Are [Take 2][*]   All the Things You Are [Version 1]   All the Things You Are [Version 2]   All Too Soon   Alone Together   Amor   Anytime, Anyday, Anywhere   April in Paris   April in Paris [DVD]   Autumn Leaves   Autumn Leaves [Alternate Take]   Autumn Leaves [Alternate Version 1]   Autumn Serenade   Azure   Basin Street Blues   Beale Street Blues [Instrumental]   Blac Butterfly [DVD]   Black and Blue   Black and Tan Fantasie   Black and Tan Fantasy   Black and Tan Fantasy [*]   Black and Tan Fantasy [1929]   Black and Tan Fantasy [Master Take]   Black Beauty   Black Beauty - Complete Original American Decca ...   Black Beauty - Complete Original American Decca ...   Black Beauty (Firewater)   Black Beauty (Portrait of Florence Mills)   Black Beauty [1st Take]   Black Beauty [2nd Take]   Black Beauty [DVD]   Black Beauty [Master Take]   Black Butterfly   Bli Blip [DVD]   Bli-blip   Bli-Blip [Multimedia Track]   BliBlip   Blue Abandon [Instrumental]   Blue Again   Blue Moon   Blue Skies   Blue Skies [Live]   Body and Soul   Body and Soul [*]   Body and Soul [Take 1]   Body and Soul [Take 2][#]   Body and Soul [Take 3]   Body and Soul [Unissued Take][#]   Body and Soul/De Bond Promo   Body and Soul/Ellington Bond Promo   Boy Meets Horn   Boy Meets Horn [Into Broadcast Close]   Boy Meets Horn [Take Two]   Braggin’ In Brass   Bugle Call Rag [DVD]   Build That Railroad   C Jam Blues   C Jam Blues [*]   C Jam Blues [#]   C Jam Blues [DVD]   C Jam Blues [Live]   C-Jam Blues   Call Me Irresponsible   Candy   Caravan   Caravan [*]   Caravan [#]   Caravan [#]   Caravan [#]   Caravan [DVD]   Caravan [From Alice & Mystery of the Third Planet]   Caravan [Live]   Caravan [Live]   Caravan [Live]   Carnival in Caroline   Charade   Chelsea Bridge   Chew Chew Chew (Chew Your Bubble Gum)   Chicago   Chloe   Christopher Columbus   Cocktails for Two   Come Rain or Come Shine   Come Sunday   Come Sunday [From Black, Brown, And Beige]   Come Sunday [Instrumental]   Come Sunday [Live]   Come Sunday [The Spiritual Theme]   Come Sunday\/David Danced   Come to Baby, Do!   Cotton Club Stomp   Cotton Tail   Cotton Tail   Cotton Tail [DVD]   Cotton Tail [Live]   Cottontail (Hot Chocolate) [DVD]   Dancing in the Dark   Danke Schoen   Day Dream   Day In - Day Out   Day In - Day Out [Live][#]   Daybreak Express   Days of Wine and Roses   Dear Old Southland   Dear Old Southland [Take 1]   Dear Old Southland [Take 1][#]   Dear Old Southland [Take 2]   Deep Night   Deep Purple   Diga Diga Doo   Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue   Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue   Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue [#]   Dinah   Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me   Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me   Do Nothing till You Hear From Me [*]   Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me [Live]   Do NothinTil You Hear From Me   Do NothinTill You Hear from Me   Don't Get Around Much Anymore   Don't Take Your Love From Me   Don't You Know I Care   Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care To Know) ...   Don’t Get Around Much Anymore   Dont You Know I Care   Dream Blues (Mood Indigo)   Drop Me Off In Harlem   Duke’s Place   East St Louis Toodle-00   Embraceable You   Everything But You   Everything but You [Broadcast Close]   Everything But You [DVD]   Everything but You [Ellington Bond Promo]   Everything But You [Into Closing]   Farewell Blues   Ferryboat Serenade   Five O'clock Drag   Flamingo   Flamingo [Multimedia Track]   Flying Home   Flying Home [*]   Flying Home [Live]   Frankie and Johnny   Frankie and Johnny, Pt. 1   Frankie and Johnny, Pt. 2   Gal from Joe’s   Get Yourself a New Broom and Sweep the Blues A   Girl of My Dreams   Good Woman Blues   Gypsy Without A Song   Happy As The Day Is Long   He Makes Me Believe He’s Mine   Hey Baby   Hey, Baby   Hey, Buddy Bolden   Honeysuckle Rose   Honeysuckle Rose [*]   Honeysuckle Rose [#]   Honeysuckle Rose [Live]   How Come You Do Me Like You Do?   How Deep Is the Ocean?   How High the Moon   How High the Moon [#]   I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues   I Ain’t got Nothin’ But the Blues   I Can't Get Started   I Can't Give You Anything but Love   I Can’t Give You Anything But Love   I Could Get a Man   I Cover the Waterfront   I Cover the Waterfront   I Didn't Know About You   I Didn’t Know About You   I Don’t Know What Kind of Blues i Got   I Don’t Mind   I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)   I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good   I Got Rhythm [DVD]   I Left My Heart in San Francisco   I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart   I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart (Take 1)   I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart & Don't Get Around...   I Let A Song Out Of My Heart   I Like the Sunrise   I Love My Lovin’ Lover   I Must Have That Man   I Must Have That Man!   I Never Felt This Way Before   I Want to Hold Your Hand   I'm Beginning To See the Light   I'm Just a Lucky So and So   I'm Just a Lucky So-and-So   I'm So In Love With You   I've Got the World on a String   I’m Beginning to See the Light   I’m Checkin’ Out Go’om Bye   I’m Gonna Go Fishin’   I’ve Got The World On A String   I’ve Got to Be a Rug Cutter   If Dreams Come True   If Dreams Come True   If Dreams Come True   If You Are But a Dream   If You Were in My Place   In a Mellotone   In a Mellow Tone   In a Mellow Tone [#]   In a Mellow Tone [Live]   In a Mellow Tone [Take 1]   In a Mellow Tone [Take 2]   In A Sentimental Mood   In My Solitude   In My Solitude [DVD]   In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree   Indian Love Call   Indian Summer   Isfahan   Isfahan [#]   Isfahan [Alternate Take]   Isfahan [Alternate Take][*]   Isle of Capri   Isle of Capri Mambo   It Don't Mean a Thing   It Don't Mean A Thing (if It Ain't Got That Swing)   It Don’t Mean a Thing   It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Sw   Jam Session (C Jam Blues)   Jam Session (C Jam Blues) [DVD]   Jingle Bells   Jump for Joy   Jump For Joy (1999 Remastered - Take 2)   Jump for Joy [Alternate Take]   Jump for Joy [Excerpts]   Just a 'Sittin and a-Rockin'   Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'   Just ASittin' and ARockin'   Just Squeeze Me   Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me)   Just Squeeze Me But Don't Tease Me   Just You, Just Me   Killin’ Myself   Lady Be Good   Lady In Blue   Lambeth Walk   Laura   Let's Fall in Love   Limbo Jazz   Limehouse Blues   Limehouse Blues [#]   Long, Long Journey   Long, Strong, And Consecutive   Lost In Meditation   Love Is Like a Cigarette   Love Letters   Love Like This Can’t Last   Love You Madly   Love You Madly [DVD]   Loveless Love   Lover Come Back to Me   Lover Man   Lover Man [#]   Lover, Come Back to Me   Lover, Come Back to Me [#]   Lullaby of Birdland   Lullaby of Birdland [*]   Lullaby of Birdland [Alternate Take][*]   Lush Life   Mack the Knife   Me And You   Meditation   Memories of You   Merry-Go-Round   Midnight Indigo   Midnight Indigo [From Anatomy of a Murder]   Mighty Like the Blues   Minnie the Moocher   Mood Indigo   Mood Indigo [*]   Mood Indigo [#]   Mood Indigo [Alternate Take]   Mood Indigo [DVD]   Mood Indigo [Final]   Mood Indigo [Live]   Mood Indigo [Take Two]   Mood Indigo/Solitude   Moon River   Moonglow   Multicolored Blue   My Funny Valentine   My Funny Valentine [DVD][*]   My Heart Sings   My Little Brown Book   My Mother, My Father and Love (Heritage)   My Old Flame   Never No Lament   Never on a Sunday   Never On Sunday   Never on Sunday [DVD]   Night and Day   Night and Day [#]   No, Papa, No [Instrumental]   Oh Babe! Maybe Someday   Oh, Lady Be Good   Oh, Lady Be Good   On a Turquoise Cloud   On the Sunny Side of the Street   On the Sunny Side of the Street   On the Sunny Side of the Street [Live]   On the Sunny Side of the Street [Rehearsal]   On the Sunny Side of the Street [Rehearsal]   One Note Samba   Paris Blues   Paris Blues [Live Version]   Passion Flower   Passion Flower (Into Closing)   People   Perdido   Perdido [Instrumental]   Perdido [Instrumental]   Perdido [Live]   Please Be Kind   Please Forgive Me   Prelude To A Kiss   Prelude to a Kiss [#]   Raisin’ The Rent   Ready Eddy   Red Roses for a Blue Lady   Riding On a Blue Note   Rocks In My Bed   Rose Room   Rose Room [Take Two]   Sam and Delilah   Sam and Delilah [From Girl Crazy]   Santa Claus Is Coming to Town   Satin Doll   Satin Doll (Ending Theme)   Satin Doll [#]   Satin Doll [DVD]   Satin Doll [Instrumental]   Satin Doll [Live]   Satin Doll [Live][*]   Scrounch   Sentimental Journey   Sentimental Journey [*]   September Song   Serenade to Sweden   Shoe Shine Boy   Singin in the Rain   Sleep, Sleep, Sleep   Sleep, Sleep, Sleep [*]   Sleigh Ride   Smoke Rings   Smoke Rings [*]   Solitude   Solitude (take 1)   Solitude [DVD]   Solitude [Take 1]   Solitude [Take 2]   Solitude [Take 2][#][*]   Somebody Loves Me   Something to Live For   Sophisticated Lady   Sophisticated Lady (take 1)   Sophisticated Lady [*]   Sophisticated Lady [#]   Sophisticated Lady [Alternate Take][#]   Sophisticated Lady [DVD]   Sophisticated Lady [Instrumental]   Sophisticated Lady [Live]   Sophisticated Lady [Take 1][#]   Sophisticated Lady [Take 2][#]   Sophisticated Lady/Solitude   Sophistocated Lady   Squatty Roo   Squaty Roo   St. Louis Blues   Star Spangled Banner   Star Spangled Banner   Stardust   Stomping at the Savoy   Stormy Weather   Stormy Weather [From Stormy Weather]   Summertime   Summertime [Take Two]   Take The   Take the 'a' Train   Take the a Train   Tenderly   Tenderly [#]   That Rhythm Man   The Blues (Mauve)   The Blues I Love to Sing   The Brown Skin Gal In The Calico Gown   The Brown-Skin Gal (In the Calico Gown)   The Christmas Song   The Gal From Joe's   The Girl in My Dreams Tries to Look at You   The Good Life   The Hucklebuck   The Merry-go-round   The More I See You   The Second Time Around   The Sheik of Araby   The Star Spangled Banner   The Star Spangled Banner [#]   The Star Spangled Banner [#]   The Star Spangled Banner [Live]   The Sunny Side of the Street   The Waltz You Saved for Me   The Waltz You Saved for Me [*]   The Wonder of You   Them There Eyes   Them There Eyes [Take 1]   Them There Eyes [Take 2]   Them There Eyes [Take 3]   There Is No Greater Love   Things Ain't What They Used to Be   Three Little Words   Three Little Words/Old Man Blues [DVD]   Tiger Rag   Tiger Rag (Encore)   Tiger Rag, Pt. 1   Tiger Rag, Pt. 1   Tiger Rag, Pt. 1 [Take A]   Tiger Rag, Pt. 1 [Take B]   Tiger Rag, Pt. 2   Time on My Hands   Together   Tulip or Turnip   Very Special   Way Down Yonder in New Orleans   What Am I Here For   What Color is Virtue   What Else Can You Do With a Drum   When My Sugar Walks Down the Street   When My Sugar Walks Down the Street (All the Littl...   Where Are You?   Where or When   Where or When [Alternate Version 1]   Whispering Grass   Whispering Tiger (Tiger Rag)   White Christmas   Willow Weep for Me   Without a Song   Without a Song [Take 1]   Without a Song [Take 2][Alternate Take]   Women (They’ll Get You)   You Better Know It   You Gave Me the Gate   You Gotta Crawl Before You Walk   Your Love Has Faded

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