The Ellington Suites is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington which collects three suites recorded in 1959, 1971 and 1972. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance by a Big Band. Interesting fact: Ellington wrote the Queens Suite for Queen Elizabeth II, who was presented with a single pressing of the recording which was not commercially issued during Ellington’s lifetime. This newly re-mastered edition features a previously unreleased bonus track; the only known recording of the Ellington composition ‘The Kiss’.

Tracklist:

1. The Queen’s Suite: Sunset and the Mocking Bird
2. The Queen’s Suite: Lightning Bugs and Frogs
3. The Queen’s Suite: Le Sucrier Velours
4. The Queen’s Suite: Northern Lights
5. The Queen’s Suite: The Single Petal of a Rose
6. The Queen’s Suite: Apes and Peacocks
7. The Goutelas Suite: Fanfare
8. The Goutelas Suite: Goute