My People is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington written and recorded in 1963 for a stage show and originally released on Bob Thiele's short-lived Contact label before being reissued on the Flying Dutchman label and later released on CD on the Red Baron label.[1][2] The album features recordings of compositions by Ellington for a stage show presented in Chicago as part of the Century of Negro Progress Exposition in 1963.
- All compositions by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
- "Ain't But the One/Will You Be There?/99%" – 5:16
- "Come Sunday/David Danced Before the Lord" – 6:09
- "My Mother, My Father (Heritage)" – 2:50
- "Montage" – 6:54
- "My People/The Blues" – 8:56
- "Workin' Blues/My Man Sends Me/Jail Blues/Lovin' Lover" – 5:57
- "King Fit the Battle of Alabam'" – 3:25
- "What Color Is Virtue?" – 2:49
- Recorded at Universal Studios, Chicago on August 20 (tracks 1a, 2, 4, 5b, 6a, 6c & 7), August 21 (tracks 1b, 1c, 3, 5a & 8) and August 27 (tracks 6b & 6d), 1963.
- Duke Ellington – director, narration
- Ray Nance – cornet
- Bill Berry, Ziggy Harrell, Nat Woodard – trumpet
- Booty Wood, Britt Woodman – trombone
- Chuck Connors – bass trombone
- John Sanders – valve trombone
- Rudy Powell – alto saxophone
- Pete Clark, Russell Procope – alto saxophone, clarinet
- Harold Ashby – tenor saxophone, clarinet
- Bob Freedman – tenor saxophone
- Billy Strayhorn – piano
- Joe Benjamin – bass
- Louis Bellson – drums
- Juan Amalbert – conga
- Joya Sherrill, Lil Greenwood, Jimmy McPhail, Irving Bunton Singers – vocals
- Bunny Briggs - tap dance