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- play music by Duke Ellington and other jazz musicians. Every year Jazz at Lincoln Center transcribes arrangements of Ellington's music and sends them to...
- Take the "A" Train (category Duke Ellington songs)Strayhorn that was the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra. In 1976, the 1941 recording by Duke Ellington on Victor Records was inducted into the...
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from...- Brian Pinkney (section Honors and awards)Caldecott Honors, four Coretta Scott King Honors and a Coretta Scott King Award, and the Boston Globe Horn Book Award. The Faithful Friend (1997) Duke Ellington:...
- Henke, La Dolce Henke (Warner Bros., 1962) B.B. King, Compositions of Duke Ellington and Others (Eros, 1961) Glenn Miller, The Direct Disc Sound of the Glenn...
became interested in the piano. His mother took him to see Duke Ellington in concert and told him about this experience. "I don't remember it too well...- Dave Chappelle: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (section Awards and nominations)Murphy Bradley Cooper Lorne Michaels Colin Jost, Michael Che and Kenan Thompson The Duke Ellington Band Mos Def Yasiin Bey Common Erykah Badu Q-Tip Frederic...
- Adelaide Hall (section Recordings with Duke Ellington)and Jools Holland, and recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington (with whom she made her most famous recording, "Creole Love Call" in 1927) and with...
- awarded since the 2nd Annual Grammy Awards in 1959. The first recipient was American composer and pianist Duke Ellington, for the soundtrack to the 1959 film...
List of theaters in Washington, D.C. (redirect from List of theater and entertainment venues in Washington, D.C.)Theater at the National Conservatory of the Dramatic Arts Hexagon at the Duke Ellington School Histrio (Theater), A French Theater Olney Theatre Center for...
Anatomy of a Murder (category Films scored by Duke Ellington)a musical score by Duke Ellington, who also appears in the film. It has been described by Michael Asimow, UCLA law professor and co-author of Reel Justice:...- Adams, except where noted. "Refelectory" – 7:00 "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington) – 5:37 "Etude Diablolique" – 7:16 "Claudette's Way" – 6:11 "I Carry...
Louie Bellson (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)throughout the 1940s, with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Duke Ellington. In 1952, he married jazz singer Pearl Bailey. During the 1950s, he...
School, Duke Ellington High School (now, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts), and for renaming the Calvert Street Bridge the Duke Ellington Bridge in...
Mary Lou Williams (section Awards and honors)and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie...- Birdland (Weather Report song) (category Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients)almost daily, heard performances by Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis. It was also where he met his wife, Maxine. Looking back...
Kenny Garrett (section Awards and nominations)American post-bop jazz musician and composer who gained recognition in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and for his time with Miles Davis's...
Jon Hendricks (category Grammy Award winners)of Duke Ellington and Count Basie. He is considered one of the best practitioners of scat singing, which involves vocal jazz soloing. Jazz critic and historian...
Lenny Kravitz (category Brit Award winners)was friends with Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Short, Miles Davis, and other jazz greats; Ellington even played "Happy...
Ella Fitzgerald (category Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia)Outside her solo career, she created music with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and The Ink Spots. These partnerships produced songs such as "Dream a...
- and distinctive standards for American creativity. The blues of Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, the gospel of Mahalia Jackson, the jazz of Duke Ellington
- values and conventional literary forms, even as they addressed the realities of African-American experience. African-American musicians—Duke Ellington, King