Duke Ellington rarely recorded music beyond his own works or those of his co-leader, Billy Strayhorn. This release presents one of the very few exceptions

Duke’s arrangement of the Richard and Robert Sherman score for the film Mary Poppins. While one would expect that an album released on the crest of the bossa nova craze would consist of a compilation of Brazilian classics, Ellington’s Afro-Bossa also presented here in its entirety, consists entirely of compositions by Duke and Billy Strayhorn, and is a highly personal album. Two Ellington arrangements of movie hits, “Hello Dolly!” and “Moon River”, have been added as a bonus.

Plays Mary Poppins

A Spoonful of Sugar
Chim Chim Cher-ee
Feed the Birds (Tuppence a Bag)
Let's Go Fly a Kite
Stay Awake
I Love to Laugh
Jolly Holiday
Sister Suffragette
The Perfect Nanny
Step in Time
The Life I Lead
Supercalifragillisticexpialidocious

Afro Bossa

Afro-Bossa
Purple Gazelle
Absinthe
Moonbow
Sempre Amore
Caline (Silk Lace)
Tigress
Angu
Volupte
Bonga
Pyramid
The Eight Veil

Bonus Tracks
Hello Dolly
Moon River