Crescendo in Blue

Name: Crescendo in Blue
Duration: 4 min 1 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
2.7	Crescendo in Blue	4:01	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1946	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Album + Live	US1991	Prestige (American jazz label)	24074
6.7	Crescendo in Blue	4:01	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Carnegie Hall Concerts: 1943/1947	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Album + Live	XE2010	Prestige (American jazz label)	0600753232491
2.7	Crescendo in Blue	4:01	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1946	Duke Ellington and His Orchestra	Album + Live		Prestige (American jazz label)	9031-74608-2

bass:	Oscar Pettiford (on 1946-01-04)
drums (drum set):	Sonny Greer (on 1946-01-04)
piano:	Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (on 1946-01-04)
reeds:	Harry Carney (on 1946-01-04) Jimmy Hamilton (US jazz clarinettist/saxophonist, arranger, composer) (on 1946-01-04) Otto Hardwick (on 1946-01-04) Johnny Hodges (on 1946-01-04) Al Sears (on 1946-01-04)
trombone:	Lawrence Brown (jazz trombonist) (on 1946-01-04) Wilbur de Paris (on 1946-01-04) Claude Jones (on 1946-01-04)
trumpet:	Cat Anderson (on 1946-01-04) Taft Jordan (on 1946-01-04) Shelton Hemphill (on 1946-01-04) Francis Williams (trumpeter) (on 1946-01-04)
additional arranger:	Billy Strayhorn
arranger:	Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader)

recorded at:	Carnegie Hall in Midtown Manhattan, New York, New York, United States (on 1946-01-04)

recording of:	Crescendo in Blue (live)

composer:	Duke Ellington (US composer, pianist & jazz bandleader) (in 1937)

referred to in medleys:	Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue