Duke Ellington

About

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.

Albums/Songs:

• Ella at Duke’s Place
• Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
• Money Jungle
• Francis A. & Edward K.
• Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Artie Shaw And Their Orchestras
• Serenade to Sweden
• Dance Air Force Date 1960
• Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• Piano Reflections
• At Newport
• First Time! The Count Meets the Duke
• The Duke
• Back to Back: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges Play the Blues
• Blues in Orbit
• The Duke Plays Ellington
• Recording Together for the First Time
• The Great Reunion
• The Far East Suite
• Piano in the Foreground
• One Night Stand
• Black Brown and Beige: A Duke Ellington Tone Parallel to the American Negro
• Mercer Records Presents the Billy Strayhorn Trio
• Concert of Sacred Music
• The Duke At Tanglewood
• Side by Side

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