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Duke Ellington Orchestra, instrumentalist. Valburn/Ellington Collection (Library of Congress) Sound characteristics: digital stereo: Digital file characteristics: audio file CD audio: Notes: Title from disc label. Big band jazz music. "Never-before-released recordings (1965-1972)"--Insert in container. All compositions by Duke Ellington except ...
Mellow Ditty spotlights the bandleader's piano and Cootie Williams' trumpet. Ellington is the sole accompanist for singer Tony Watkins in To Know You is to Love You - and it must be said that Duke's accompaniment is much more enticing than Watkins' fairly ordinary vocals.
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Duke Ellington began his artistic career as a sign painter in Washington, D.C., but by 1923 he had joined a small dance band known as The Washingtonians (which included drummer Sonny Greer), and moved to New York City. Shortly thereafter, the group became the house band of the Club Kentucky (often referred to as the "Kentucky Club"), an engagement ...
The band reached a creative peak in the early 1940s, when Ellington wrote for an orchestra of distinctive voices and displayed tremendous creativity. Some of the musicians became a sensation of their own. The short-lived Jimmy Blanton transformed the use of the double bass in jazz, allowing it to function as a solo rather than a rhythm instrument a...
Ellington's appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 7, 1956, was to return him to wider prominence. The feature "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue," with saxophonist Paul Gonsalves's six-minute saxophone solo, had been in the band's book for a while, but on this occasion it nearly created a riot. The revived attention should not have surpris...
Along with tenor player Coleman Hawkins, Ellington is one of only two major figures in jazz whose career not only spans over decades (from the 1920s to the 1970s), but who also remained constantly creative in an evolving style during that entire period. In some of his later recordings, side by side with contemporary musicians, Ellington proves his ...
Key musicians who had previously worked with Ellington returned to the Orchestra around 1960: Johnny Hodges in 1959, Lawrence Brown in 1960, and Cootie Williams two years later. Ellington was nominated for a Pulitzer Prizein 1965, but was turned down. His reaction: "Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be famous too young." In 1966, he...
Ellington's film work began in 1929, starting with the short film Black and Tan. He also appeared in the film Check and Double Check. It was a major hit and helped introduce Ellington to a wide audience. He and his Orchestra continued to appear in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, both in short films and in features such as Murder at the Vaniti...
A large memorial to Duke Ellington, created by sculptor Robert Graham, was dedicated in 1997 in New York's Central Park, near Fifth Avenue and 110th Street, an intersection named Duke Ellington Circle. In his birthplace of Washington, D.C., there stands a school dedicated to his honor and memory: the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. The school ed...
Okeh Ellington (1920s and 1930s) 2-CD setDuke: The Columbia Years (1927-1962) 3-CD setEarly Ellington: The Complete Brunswick and Vocalion Recordings of Duke Ellington, 1926-1931. (Three CD Set) Decca GRD-3-640.Ellington Explosion, 1938-1941. Smithsonian Recordings R108. Live in Fargo, North Dakota, 1940.Dance, Stanley. The World of Duke Ellington. New York: Scribner's, 1970. Reprint, New York: Da Capo, 1981. ISBN 0306810158Ellington, Duke. Music is My Mistress. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. Reprint, New York: Da Capo, 1976. ISBN 0306800330Ellington, Mercer, with Stanley Dance. Duke Ellington in Person: An Intimate Memoir. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. Reprint, New York: Da Capo, 1978. ISBN 0306801043Hajdu, David. Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1996. ISBN 0865475121All links retrieved October 6, 2017. 1. Ellington on the Web. Retrieved May 24, 2007. 2. A Duke Ellington Panoramaincluding detailed discography.
Thankfully Harold Ashby’s tenor solo is another elevated example of Websterianism still at work in the Duke’s sax section. Cootie Williams, regrettably undermiked on Portrait of Louis Armstrong (again from the New Orleans Suite), still plays with fat tone and panache.
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Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – From His Treasure Chest 1965 - 1972 (2010, CD) - Discogs. More images. Tracklist. Credits. Featuring – Cootie Williams, Johnny Hodges, Louie Bellson *, Mercer Ellington, Nat Adderley. Liner Notes – Stanley Dance. Producer – Duke Ellington. Notes. Original release 1991 MusicMasters Inc.
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Authors: Duke Ellington (Composer, Instrumentalist, Conductor), Cat Anderson (Composer, Instrumentalist), Cootie Williams (Instrumentalist), Ray Nance (Instrumentalist), Herbie Jones (Instrumentalist), Mercer Ellington (Instrumentalist), Nat Adderley (Instrumentalist), Allen Smith (Instrumentalist), Freddie Stone (Composer, Instrumentalist ...
Release Date. 2010. Duration. 01:06:15. Genre. Jazz. Styles. Swing, Big Band. Recording Date. March 31, 1965. Discography Timeline. See Full Discography. Masterpieces by Ellington (1951) A Drum Is a Woman (1956) Such Sweet Thunder (1957) Black, Brown and Beige (1958) The Nutcracker Suite (1960)
