Cat No JT933

• An indispensable and long unavailable Ellington suite, “A Drum is a Woman” (1956) - includes the complete original album plus the rare tune, "Pomegranate", from the suite but omitted from the LP. Total Time: 50:26 - 16 tracks - digipak edition.

• Written for an early television special, it is a musical fantasy or allegory telling the story of jazz as an adventure by characters Madam Zajj and Carribee Joe, from the Caribbean to the moon via Congo Square and Fifty-Second Street. It was in four parts with a dozen selections, two reprises, and a finale.

• Extra percussion, a harp, and the voices of Margaret Tynes, Joya Sherrill, and Ozzie Bailey were added (plus dancer Carmen de Lavallade) with all music, lyrics and arrangements by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.

• Personnel : Clark Terry, Willie Cook, Cat Anderson (tp), Ray Nance (tp, vln, vcl), Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman, John Sanders (tb), Jimmy Hamilton (cl, ts), Russell Procope (as, cl), Johnny Hodges, Rick Henderson (as), Paul Gonsalves (ts), Harry Carney (bar, cl, b-cl), Duke Ellington (p, narr), Betty Glamann (harp), Jimmy Woode (b), Sam Woodyard, Terry Snyder (d), Candido Camero (bgo).