Victor matrix BVE-43502. Black beauty / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington

Additional Information
  • Description: Jazz/dance band
  • Instrumentation: Bass, 3 saxophones, 3 cornets, trombone, banjo, piano, and traps
  • Category: Instrumental
  • Master Size: 10-in.
Notes
Instrumentation is from Victor ledgers and is not confirmed; collective personnel from notes to a reissue compilation CD. Personnel listings here are not intended to imply that every instrument listed is played on every master recorded at the session.
Source(s): CD: Duke Ellington centennial edition : The complete RCA Victor recordings (personnel); Rigler-Deutsch Index; Victor ledgers.
Take Date and PlaceTakeStatusLabel Name/NumberFormatNote
3/26/1928 New York, New York 1 Hold
3/26/1928 New York, New York 2 Master Victor 21580 10-in.

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Black beauty / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington - Victor 21580 - Take 2 - 3/26/1928
Audio from the Joe Bussard Collection provided by:
3/26/1928 New York, New York 2 Master Bluebird B-6430 10-in.

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Black beauty / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington - Bluebird B-6430 - Take 2 - 3/26/1928
Audio of this recording from the UCSB Library
℗ © Sony Music Entertainment.
3/26/1928 New York, New York 2 Master Gramophone B-4872 10-in.
3/26/1928 New York, New York 2 Master Gramophone B-6166 10-in.
3/26/1928 New York, New York 2 Master Gramophone (France) K-8304 10-in. From dubbed master, Gramophone A 43502.
3/26/1928 New York, New York 2 Master X LVA-3037 LP (10-in.)
3/26/1928 New York, New York 2 Master RCA Victor LPV-568 LP

Black beauty / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington

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Black beauty / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington - RCA Victor LPV-568 - Take 2 - 3/26/1928
℗ © 1969 Sony Music Entertainment.
3/26/1928 New York, New York 2 Master RCA Victor DUKE1 Compact disc

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Victor matrix BVE-43502. Black beauty / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington," accessed December 11, 2025, http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800017677/BVE-43502-Black_beauty.

Victor matrix BVE-43502. Black beauty / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington. (2025). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved December 11, 2025, from http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/800017677/BVE-43502-Black_beauty.

"Victor matrix BVE-43502. Black beauty / Cotton Club Orchestra ; Duke Ellington." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2025. Web. 11 December 2025.

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