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Many people played significant roles in the story of Washington's black community in the early 20th century, but no one better personified the elegance, the dynamism and the spirit of that society than Duke Ellington. ... Well-known pianist and composer Billy Taylor was born in 1921 in Greenville, NC but very soon...
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Students will learn to identify musical styles and musicians associated with Harlem, ... Display images of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Ella Fitzgerald (you can find images on the Web sites listed below) and identify them as three of the great jazz musicians of the Harlem Renaissance. Divide students into groups and...
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The multi-talented Freda Payne is best known for her singing career, ... Payne's own musical career blossomed soon after, ... Berry Gordy, Jr. attempted to sign Payne to his then-burgeoning record company, Motown, while Duke Ellington employed Payne as the featured singer with his renowned orchestra for two nights in Pittsburgh,
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Although best known for composing, leading and performing about 2,000 "big band" jazz pieces, Ellington also composed orchestral, ... In the mid-1930s Ellington wrote the score for a nine-minute musical film, ... The full title of the recording known as Classic Duke Ellington is: Classic Ellington: Sir Simon Rattle Conducts The...
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chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/Ellington.html
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Unlike many big band leaders, Ellington was always uncomfortable with the swing music craze and had little to gain from it. For one thing, his distinctive musical imagination and complex arrangements were more appropriate for listening than jitterbugging. ... ; Post your comment on:; Duke Ellington: "Cotton Tail";
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That was a great experience which lasted three great years. ... There have been many roles that I turned down, ... A Duke Named Ellington was the result. It garnered enormous praise form TV and jazz critics both in the US and abroad, and was nominated for a national Emmy as 'Best Feature Length Documentary'. We lost out to...
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A pair of his best-known big band works, "The Hawk Talks" and "Skin Deep" became popular staples of the Ellington repertoire -- ... After serving in the Army for three years, ... "Not only is Louie Bellson the worldÂ’s greatest drummer . . . heÂ’s the worldÂ’s greatest musician!" Duke Ellington once said of his former bandmate.
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www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-louis-bellson17-2009feb17,0,3130907.story
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Duke Ellington called his music "American Music" rather than jazz, and described those who impressed him as "beyond category. "He is widely considered one of the most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music and is the twentieth century's best known band leaders and composers.
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www.dukeellington.com/aboutduke.html
www.dukeellington.com/aboutduke.html
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While maintaining his job at The Cotton Club, Ellington also played downtown with his band in the Broadway musical Show Girl, ... The Three-CD boxed set "Duke Ellington and His World Famous Orchestra: ... That performance, and the best-selling album of Duke's career ("Ellington at Newport," pictured above) that followed from it,
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