True Nobility

Drove up to the Malaysian capital after work yesterday, arriving around midnight. For once didn't agonise over what CDs to bring up here, settling for most of the Ellington material in my collection (with one Mingus thrown in, with a cover of Mood Indigo on it.) Now wondering why I don't own a lot more of the great man's recordings and how I can do reasonable justice to the ones I've already got. The output from the early recordings of the thirties to the seventies must surely be one of the greatest bodies of work in the twentieth century in any art form.