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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
She was a jazz singer who worked with Count Basie and Duke Ellington, under the name Marie Ellington. She met Nat "King" Cole while they were both singing at the Zanzibar club. [2] [3] She was co-host of a talk show, "Tempo," that aired on KHJ television in Los Angeles in the 1960s.
After an engagement in Cleveland, Baker left to join Duke Ellington's orchestra. Williams joined the band in New York City, then traveled to Baltimore, where she and Baker were married. She traveled with Ellington and arranged several tunes for him, including "Trumpet No End" (1946), her version of "Blue Skies" by Irving Berlin. [16]
Ellington wrote Music Is My Mistress (1973) with Anderson in mind. [2] When Anderson played in Ellington's musical Jump for Joy, the California Eagle wrote of her: "Ivie can sing a song so that the audience get every word, and at the same time make cracks at Sonny Greer, tease Duke and wink at the boys in the front row.
While it is Ellington’s name on the album cover, the reason we treat his name as synonymous with jazz is because of the music his band created, writes Sammy Miller. Opinion: What made Duke ...
Mildred Dixon, companion of Duke Ellington Mildred Dixon, companion of Duke Ellington. Mildred Dixon (November 21, 1904 – September 18, 2001 [1]) was a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, who became a longtime companion of composer and musician Duke Ellington, and manager of his company.
With Duke Ellington. Ellington Uptown (Columbia, 1952) My People (Contact, 1963) A Concert of Sacred Music (RCA Victor, 1965) Ella at Duke's Place (Verve, 1965) With Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Ella and Louis Again (Verve, 1957) With Herb Geller. The Herb Geller Quartet (V.S.O.P., 1994) With Dizzy Gillespie. Roy and Diz (Clef, 1954 ...
Ellington was born in Washington, D.C., United States. [3] He was the only child of the composer, pianist, and bandleader Duke Ellington and his high school sweetheart Edna Thompson (d. 1967), whom Duke married in 1918 and never divorced. Ellington grew up primarily in Harlem from the age of eight. By the age of eighteen, Ellington had written ...