Duke Ellington
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican jazz pianist and composer (1899-1974)
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gleason called him "America's most important composer".
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British pressing of "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" (1927)
Adelaide Hall recorded "Creole Love Call" with Ellington in 1927. The recording became a worldwide hit.![Ellington at the Hurricane Club, Broadway & West 51st Street, New York City,[57] May 1943](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Duke_Ellington_at_the_Hurricane_Club_1943.jpg/500px-Duke_Ellington_at_the_Hurricane_Club_1943.jpg)
Ellington at the Hurricane Club, Broadway & West 51st Street, New York City,[57] May 1943
Ellington poses with his piano at the KFG Radio Studio on November 3, 1954
James Stewart and Ellington in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Ellington receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Nixon in 1969
Ellington in 1973Listen
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Louis ArmstrongAlso in Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Mae WestAlso in Belle of the Nineties (1934)
James StewartAlso in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Léopold Sédar SenghorAlso in The First World Festival of Negro Arts (1966)
George C. ScottAlso in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1899 to 1974 · aged 75
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32 languages
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