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This 70-track, three-CD set contains a lot of seldom and never-before-heard Ducal selections from the mid-60s to the early-70s. The 1965 Tanglewood recordings with the famed conductor Arthur Fiedler feature some rousing jazz-and-strings renditions of "Caravan" and "The Mooche" along with a long-lost recording of a Duke radio interview. For those who love Ellington's beautiful but underrated piano playing, there are some spicy tracks from a keyboard jam session from Pittsburgh with Earl "Fatha" Hines. Some behind-the-scenes sides from a Newport Jazz Festival promo party are included and 26 tracks from a previously unreleased Reader's Digest recording with organist Wild Bill Davis are unveiled. Ellington's last major concert from the UK in 1973, one year before his death, reveals the high level of musicianship at the end. Of course, stars such as Johnny Hodges and Paul Gonsalves solo sweetly and Duke Ellington shows us, once again, why we loved him madly. --Eugene Holley, Jr