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| | Duke Ellington - The Black Renaissance in Washington, DC |
 | | Ellington was a multi-talented musician who wrote musical revues such as "Chocolate Kiddies" and Broadway musicals such as Florenz Ziegfield’s "Show Girl" in the 1920s and 1930s. | | | Because both of this parents played piano, Ellington was exposed to music at an early age. | | | Toward the end of his life, Ellington composed religious music, which included two jazz-style sacred concerts. |
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| | Thelonious Monk Sideman Bio - Ellington, Duke [Edward Kennedy] |
| | Ellington was one of the first musicians to concern himself with composition and musical form in jazz - as distinct from improvisation, tune writing, and arranging. | | | During the formative Cotton Club period, Ellington was obliged to work in a variety of musical categories: numbers for dancing, jungle-style and production numbers, popular songs, "blue" or "mood" pieces, as well as "pure" instrumental jazz compositions. | | | His piano tone, produced deep in the keys, was the richest and most resonant imaginable; it had the ability to energize and inspire the entire orchestra. |
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http://www.monkzone.com/bios/Ellington,%20Duke%20web.htm
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| | Edward K. "Duke" Ellington, African American Composer & Pianist |
| | Ellington's New World a-Comin' (10:18) has been recorded by pianist Marco Fumo on the Italian music label Dynamic CDS 351 (2000) along with music by four other composers. | | | Duke Ellington: Piano Four Hands is their recording on the Canadian label Analekta AN 2 9820 (2005). | | | Also in 1924, Ellington became the leader of a six-member jazz band previously known as the Elmer Snowden Band. |
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http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Ellington.html
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| | Essentials of Music - Composers |
| | In 1932, Ellington began touring the country with the band -- now the Duke Ellington Orchestra -- and over the years it became a mainstay of Big Band music. | | | Ellington's music also reached beyond the traditional venues of club and concert hall. | | | And Ellington arranged his music with just these sounds in mind; so much so that a change in personnel often necessitated a change in the arrangement. |
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http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/composer/ellington.html
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| | Duke Ellington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | His works were always tailored to the talents of the musicians in his band, including Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Bubber Miley, Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, Barney Bigard, Ben Webster, Harry Carney, Sonny Greer, Otto Hardwick, Paul Gonsalves and Wellman Braud. | | | Though his later work, some claim, is overshadowed by his music of the early 1940s, he continued to make vital and innovative recordings (including The New Orleans Suite, The Far East Suite (1966) and The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse (1971)) until the end of his life. | | | His reaction: "Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be famous too young." In 1966, he performed his "Sacred Music" suite, an attempt at fusing Christian liturgy with jazz. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington
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| | Ellington |
| | Ellington made the popular music charts with Mood Indigo, recorded in October 1930 and called Dreamy Blues. | | | One unique aspect of the Ellington band during the 1930's was its consistent personnel. | | | The recording and the performance did as much as anything to return the Ellington band to a place of prestige and importance. |
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http://pages.sssnet.com/mungerbill/mungerbill/ellington.html
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| | Duke Ellington |
| | Unlike many of their contemporaries, the Ellington Orchestra was able to make the change from the Hot Jazz of the 1920s to the Swing music of the 1930s. | | | Ellington and Bigard would later co-write one of the orchestra's signature pieces "Mood Indigo" in 1930. | | | Radio broadcasts from the club made Ellington famous across America and also gave him the financial security to assemble a top notch band that he could write music specifically for. |
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| | Duke Ellington: Jazz Legend |
| | Ellington learned developed liking for the ragtime music which was so popular during his teenage years. | | | It was this very same friend that encouraged Ellington to play a song for the seniors' dance, which was a great success. | | | According to Ellington, " on the piano you could develop your own musical, physical, and visual style" (Hasse). |
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http://members.tripod.com/~Jamaica01/jazz.html
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| | Free Essays on Duke Ellington |
| | Improvisation was a big part of Ellington’s music. | | | Ellington personally created most of the music played by his orchestra. | | | Over the course of his career, some of Ellington’s instrumental pieces he composed were set into lyrics and became hits as songs, including "Sophisticated Lady" (1933) and "In My Solitude" (1942). |
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| | Rude Interlude, a Duke Ellington home page |
| | Ellington obligingly composed a new piece with that title, and recorded it later that year. | | | Duke on Disc -- a listening list of more than 100 Ellington recordings on CD, with a brief description of each. | | | A Personal Note -- Ellington's music and memories of my daughter Amanda. |
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http://www.arches.uga.edu/~rholmes/duke.htm
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| | Faces of Jazz * portraits of Duke Ellington |
| | Ellington's stylistic qualities were shared by Strayhorn, who increasingly participated in composing and orchestrating music for the Ellington band. | | | One of the originators of big-band jazz, Ellington led his band for more than half a century, composed thousands of scores, and created one of the most distinctive ensemble sounds in all of Western music. | | | Not least of the band's musicians was Ellington himself, a pianist whose style originated in ragtime and the stride piano idiom of James P. Johnson and Willie “The Lion” Smith. |
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| | Duke Ellington |
| | Duke Ellington was a great innovator, using new harmonies to blend his musicians' individual sounds. | | | Edward began studying piano when he was seven years old. | | | became Duke Ellington's partner in the late 1940s and was the composer of the band's theme song, |
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| | Duke Ellington: Biography and Much More From Answers.com |
| | Ellington and The Washingtonians played at various New York Clubs and toured New England as a dance band until they got their first big break in 1927. | | | In this setting Ellington had a chance to write music in a variety of styles for dance theater acts as well as extended specialties for the band. | | | His orchestra performed in concert halls, nightclubs, and theaters, with Ellington appearing before the public as a composer and songwriter, entertainer, bandleader, and eventually global ambassador of American music. |
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| | Howard University Libraries - Duke Ellington: A Centennial Tribute |
| | Unlike his contemporaries, Ellington drew instruments from different sections of the band and voiced them together as a unit, generating fresh musical sounds. | | | Ellington's piano style influenced Thelonious Monk, a leading modern jazz composer-pianist, while Ellington's arranging concepts were assimilated by Gil Evans, Thad Jones, George Russell, Clare Fischer, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra, and other significant modern composers. | | | Anderson, Paul A. "Ellington, Rap Music, and Cultural Differenc." The Musical Quarterly 79 (Spring 1995): 172-206. |
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| | Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington |
| | Before passing away in 1974, Duke Ellington wrote and recorded hundreds of musical compositions, all of which will continue to have a lasting effect upon people worldwide for a long time to come. | | | Thanks to the rise in radio receivers and the industry itself, Duke’s band was broadcast across the nation live on "From the Cotton Club." The band’s music, along with their popularity, spread rapidly. | | | In 1928, Ellington and Irving Mills signed an agreement in which Mills produced and published Ellington’s music. |
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http://www.medaloffreedom.com/DukeEllington.htm
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| | Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington |
| | He began playing the piano at the age of six with Miss Clinkscales, studying later in his career with Will Marion Cook who had been a musical arranger for the vaudeville team Williams and Walker. | | | He made his recording debut about 1924 and the band recorded under several names, such as the Jungle Band, the Whoopee Makers and the Harlem Footwarmers. | | | He was born in Washington, D.C. into a musical family. |
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http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/ellington.html
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| | SPECTRUM Biographies - Duke Ellington |
| | Ellington At Newport 1956 [DOUBLE CD] (Audio CD) Duke Ellington | | | Liberia, in West Africa, commissioned Ellington to write music to celebrate its 100th anniversary. | | | His band went to New York City, where they made their first recordings. |
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| | BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Duke Ellington |
| | From the 1950s, Ellington toured internationally, wrote many long suites, and also composed for films and the stage. | | | His other extended suites were inspired by ideas as different as New Orleans music, Shakespeare and visits to Asia. | | | The Ellington Suites (1959-72) - Original Jazz Classics OJC 446. |
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| | PBS VIDEOdatabase of America's History and Culture -- Chapters |
| | His band at a peak, Ellington is helped now by the gifted young composer Billy Strayhorn and continues manipulating his players' talents, turning his orchestra into an instrument with which he creates music of astonishing perfection. | | | In the midst of his band's mayhem, to prove that compelling music could be longer than 3-minutes, Ellington wrote the beautiful 'Black, Brown, and Beige.' All proceeds for a concert of this music given at Carnegie Hall went to Russian war relief. | | | Strayhorn's first composition for Ellington - 'Take the A Train' - became Ellington's theme song. |
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http://pbsvideodb.pbs.org/programs/all_chapters.asp?item_id=23363
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| | Duke Ellington |
| | However with the debut of Ellington's early theme song "East St. Louis Toodleoo" along with "Birmingham Breakdown" on the session of November 29, 1926, the Duke Ellington Orchestra was essentially born. | | | The band was up to 11 pieces including the wonderful wa-wa trombonist Tricky Sam Nanton, who made for a perfect team with Miley. | | | The result is that there are currently a countless number of Ellington albums available (way over 200) with "new" (previously unissued) ones coming out nearly every month as if he were still alive. |
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| | Amazon.com: Francis a & Edward K: Music |
| | On the ballads, May was obviously trying to back Sinatra with a layered Ellington sound, and the fact that the band really wasn't into it hurts tunes such as "I Like the Sunrise," which sounds just awful. | | | The album would have seemed a perfect opportunity for Sinatra to explore some Ellington classics which he had never recorded--"Sophisticated Lady" "Satin Doll" and "Solitude" come immediately to mind..Sinatra echews these and other titles in favor, for example, of Bobby Hebb's innocuous 60's hit "Sunny". | | | Sinatra is not in great voice - listen to the flat clunker he hits at the end of "Come Back to Me" and the Ellington band, other than a few soloists, sounds disinterested, as if they didn't bother to learn the arrangements. |
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| | Edward K. "Duke" Ellington - Biography |
| | The Essential Ellington: Music of Ellington and Strayhorn | | | June 1996 Duke Ellington: "The Best of the Sacred Concerts" article | | | A genius for instrumental combinations, improvisation, and jazz arranging brought the world the unique "Ellington" sound that found consummate expression in works like "Mood Indigo," "Sophisticated Lady," and the symphonic suites |
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| | Strayhorn and Mercer Ellington, and discographical data of recordings by | | | to the memory and musical legacy of Edward Kennedy Ellington -- Duke. | | | Twentieth Century, influencing all of jazz and popular music, rock, and |
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| | Portrait of Edward Kennedy Ellington by Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra: Song Music Downloads |
| | Sorry, at this time no downloads have been found for "Portrait of Edward Kennedy Ellington" on album Swell & Super. | | | Sorry, at this time no streams have been found for "Portrait of Edward Kennedy Ellington" on album Swell & Super. | | | Portrait of Edward Kennedy Ellington by Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra: Song Music Downloads |
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| | Duke Ellington and His World |
| | Duke's father played the piano by ear and could sing excerpts from several operas and operettas. | | | They also worked with other family members for different caterers, including on one occasion, a reception at the White House. | | | With that, however, my mother decided I should take piano lessons." |
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| | Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington |
| | The background music comprises a montage of a number of the songs which includes part of "East St. Louis Toodle-ooh," which we are told was Ellington's themesong until about 1940 and concludes with "Take the A-Train," which became the themesong after that. | | | The songs found here were either written wholly or in part by Duke Ellington, played by Duke Ellington, or influenced by this great musician of yesteryear. | | | For more music, try this site, and to contact the webmaster send mail to |
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http://more-old-music.home.mindspring.com/ellington/duke.htm
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| | Duke Ellington |
| | A pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer, Ellington and his band played together for 50 years. | | | He started playing piano at the age of seven, and by the time he was 15, he was composing. | | | Born Edward Kennedy Ellington, Duke Ellington was one of the founding fathers of jazz music. |
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| | Piano Sheet Music By Edward Kennedy Ellington: - The Canadian Brass Quintet - Take The "A" Train: The Music Of Duke ... |
| | Piano Sheet Music By Edward Kennedy Ellington: - The Canadian Brass Quintet - Take The "A" Train: The Music Of Duke Ellington - Audio CD - 8910785BV | | | Who can forget the first time they heard the classic songs on the The Canadian Brass album "Take The "A" Train: Canadian Brass Play The Music Of Duke Ellington". | | | Chuck Daellenbach, Gene Watts, Chris Cooper, Ronald Romm and Jens Lindemann, the members of The Canadian Brass, put their all into this album, and it really shows. |
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| | Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act |
| | Duke Ellington was born on April 29, 1899, in Washington, D.C. He became a band leader and a composer of music. | | | Mercer Ellington, his only son, attended the Julliard School of Music in New York City. | | | Ellington was not the subject of an FBI investigation, but his name did appear in the files of other subjects. |
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| | Sophisticated Gentleman (Imagination): American Treasures of the Library of Congress |
| | Creator of such distinctive yet iconic classics as "Mood Indigo," "Sophisticated Lady," and "Satin Doll," Ellington considered his music as both personal expression and a continuation and reaffirmation of the African-American musical heritage. | | | Ellington--his reflection caught in a dressing room mirror--looks fully the part of an American musical giant: debonair and handsome. | | | The Gottlieb Photographic Collection contains approximately fifteen hundred images of eminent jazz musicians including Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Thelonious Monk, and was purchased with funds from a bequest of Ira and Leonore Gershwin for use by the Music Division. |
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| | Duke Edward Kennedy Ellington |
| | a Duke Ellington home page dedicated to the memory and musical legacy of Edward Kennedy Ellington | | | Gebunden - 120 S. Richard Cook, Brian Morton. | | | Duke Ellington - sein Leben - seine Musik [Duke Ellington, his Life and Music]. |
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| | Eddie Higgins Song List 1956 - 2003 |
| | (Edward Kennedy Ellington, Frankie Laine) February 19, 1998 | | | Blame It On My Youth (Oscar Levant, Edward Heyman) September 24, 2002 | | | Just In Time (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) October 14, 1960 - Alternate October 14, 1960 March 25, 1996 |
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| | Music list for Ken Burns' Jazz |
| | Album: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - The Jungle Band: Vol. | | | Album: Duke Ellington Plays the Music of Duke Ellington | | | Album: The Duke Ellington Centennial Edition - The Complete RCA/Victor Recordings (1927-1973) |
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http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/01/07/tem_jazz_music_list.html
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| | SoundtrackNet : Anatomy Of A Murder Soundtrack |
| | Sound Track Music: Anatomy Of A Murder (Duke Ellington A La Guy Lombardo) | | | The Grand Finale (Rehersal / Lines / Interview / Music / Stings / Murder) |
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| | Edward Kennedy ''Duke'' Ellington (Reference) |
| | Duke Ellington and His Orchestra played all over the U.S. and in 65 countries; the band even went to Hollywood to make movies. | | | Ellington composed over 2000 works, including musical comedies, music for ballet and motion pictures, an opera, and many short songs and instrumentals. | | | His parents both played the piano, and Duke started taking lessons at the age of seven; but he preferred playing baseball and quit. |
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| | Duke ellington - Duke Ellington mural |
| | Stanley Dance, The World of Duke Ellington (1970; reprint, 1981); Duke Ellington, Music Is My Mistress (1973). | | | Catalog #IMPD166 compact disc reissue release date 10/24/1995 original releasing label Impulse! | | | Duke Ellington and John Coltrane - Duke Ellington and John Coltrane |
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| | Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Afro-British Composer & Conductor |
| | It was commissioned for the prestigious annual Three Choirs Festival at the suggestion of the British composer Edward Elgar (1857-1934). | | | Very early on the composer began collaborating with the African American poet and author Paul Lawrence Dunbar (1872-1906). | | | Writing in Africana Encyclopedia, Roanne Edwards says of Coleridge-Taylor: |
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| | Artists: Duke Ellington |
| | Rude Interlude, a Duke Ellington Homepage by Robb Holmes | | | The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington, an exhibit of the National Civil Rights Museum | | | The Edward Kennedy Ellington Pages edited and hosted by David N. Smith |
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| | Ellington, Duke (Edward Kennedy) |
| | Ellington led his own orchestra for over 50 years, writing thousands of works, ranging from simple ballads to instrumentals and full-scale suites. | | | He always composed with his orchestra members in mind, and many of them stayed with him for 20 years or more. | | | US pianist Duke Ellington, in a photograph from the 1920s. |
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| | My Hero: Edward Kennedy Ellington |
| | Like him, but not exactly like him, because I think that everyone should be their own person, and that everyone can do something important with their lives. | | | He was born on April 29, 1899, in Washington D.C. He got his nickname from a boyhood friend who admired his regal air. | | | Edward Kennedy Ellington, nicknamed "Duke" Ellington, that is the person who I'm writing about for my essay. |
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http://www.wccusd.k12.ca.us/portola/sact/myhero7.htm
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| | Music is my Mistress. - ELLINGTON, EDWARD KENNEDY. |
| | Written by Duke Ellington, the man who never wanted te write an autobiography and who did not. | | | They offer full satisfaction and normal prices - no markups, no hidden costs, no overcharged shipping costs. | | | Offered by: Antiquariaat Hofman - Book number: 586 |
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| | Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington. |
| | Coursework and Essays: By Level: GCSE: Music: Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington | | | If you sign up you could be reading the rest of this essay in under two minutes. | | | Below is a short sample of the essay "Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington.". |
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| | National Historic Landmarks Program (NHL) |
| | Long-term residence (1939-61) of "Duke" Ellington, regarded by many critics as one of the most creative American composers of the 20th century, and one of the leaders in developing and expanding jazz forms. | | | Statement of Significance (as of designation - May 11, 1976): | | | Comments and questions about the database may be directed to NHL_info@nps.gov |
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