Duke Ellington
American jazz pianist and composer (1899-1974) · United States · On the map · Musicians · Died at 75
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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Barney Bigard Bandmate in Duke Ellington Orchestra
Norman Granz Produced Side by Side and Ella at Duke's Place- Bob Thiele Produced Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (1963)
Billy Strayhorn Bandmate in The Oscar Pettiford Quartet
Jo Jones Bandmate in The Oscar Pettiford Quartet
Oscar Pettiford Bandmate in The Oscar Pettiford Quartet
Teo Macero Produced Blues in Orbit and All American in Jazz
Bubber Miley Bandmate in Duke Ellington and his Washingtonians
Willie "The Lion" Smith Taught Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald Duets: Ella at Duke's Place (1965)
Frank Sinatra Duets: White House Correspondents' Association dinner
Louis Armstrong Also in Cabin in the Sky and Paris Blues
Benny Goodman Duets: White House Correspondents' Association dinner
Nat King Cole Duets: White House Correspondents' Association dinner
Lena Horne Also in Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Patti Page Duets: White House Correspondents' Association dinner- Wellman Braud Duets: Santa Claus, Bring My Man Back To Me
Aretha Franklin Duets: White House Correspondents' Association dinner
Barbra Streisand Duets: White House Correspondents' Association dinner
Ray Charles Duets: White House Correspondents' Association dinner
Stevie Wonder Influenced by Duke Ellington
Peter Sellers Duets: White House Correspondents' Association dinner
Jay Leno Duets: White House Correspondents' Association dinner
Danny Kaye Duets: White House Correspondents' Association dinner
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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 1973
