41. American Masters . Duke Ellington | PBS Considered one of the greatest jazz composers of all time, duke ellington had an enormous impact on the popular music of the late 20th century. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/ellington_d.html

"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing." C onsidered one of the greatest jazz composers of all time, Duke Ellington had an enormous impact on the popular music of the late 20th century. Among his more than two thousand songs are such hits as "In A Sentimental Mood," "Sophisticated Lady," "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good," and "I'm Beginning To See The Light." For almost fifty years he toured the world as a band leader and piano player. Today his recordings remain among the most popular jazz of the big-band era. Born in Washington D.C. in 1899, Edward Kennedy Ellington, better known as "Duke," began playing piano as a child. His mother, who also played the piano, oversaw his education, and by the time he was seventeen he began playing professionally. Making his name as a piano player in Washington, Ellington started to compose his own music. In 1923 he moved to New York, and the following year formed his own band, the Washingtonians. By 1927, Ellington's band had found a small base of fans and secured an engagement at Harlem's famous Cotton Club. This proved to be a major turning point in Ellington's career, providing him with access to larger audiences through radio and recordings. In 1939, Billy Strayhorn joined the band as an arranger, composer, and sometimes pianist. The two worked well together, continuing in the tradition that Ellington had built. Strayhorn's contribution to Ellington's achievements at the time were significant, and even some of their most popular tunes (such as "Take The A Train") were written by Strayhorn. Though not as well known as much of Ellington's other work, pieces such as "Jack the Bear," "Ko-ko," and "Cotton Tail" (done between 1939 and 1942), had a profound influence on much of the jazz composition and performance that followed. Though Ellington continued to compose and perform regularly throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the public demand for big-band music had faded. It was not until 1956, with a triumphant performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, that Ellington re-emerged as an important voice in contemporary music.

42. Ian Whitcomb's Literary Corner Includes articles on Rudy Vallee, duke ellington, Irving Berlin, and the first crooners. http://www.picklehead.com/ian/literary.htm

Ian's Literary Corner This is a new feature to this page, where you can download and read text files of articles and excerpts from Ian's writings. Please check back often to see if new articles have appeared! It Was Forty Years Ago Today (added 3/4/04) STILL WITH US: RONALD NEAME (added 2/7/04) BOB DARCH - MY ADVENTURES WITH THE GREAT MAN (added 2/17/03) Teen Idols (added 9/27/02) The Very Best Of the Bachelors (added 9/27/02) ANOTHER LOVELY MUSICAL EVENING: The Saga of Ukulele Al Brown (added 8/21/01) Hawaiian Memories (added 8/7/01) Dogs and Pop (added 1/9/01) Was Kingsley Amis Queer? (added 1/9/01) The Father Of Surfing (added 6/23/00) The Meaning Of Life Found In His Ukulele (added 2/28/00) The First Crooners: Volume One (added 2/28/00) The First Crooners: Volume Two (added 2/28/00) The First Crooners: Volume Three (added 2/28/00) Duke Ellington (added 2/28/00) Rudy Vallee (added 2/28/00) Tango Tango! (added 2/28/00) Hot Salsa (added 8/3/99) Two New Poems (added 7/6/99) Previously unpublished Magnet Words On A Fridge in Ohio and another poem from American Heritage magazine Irving Berlin In Hollywood (added 3/10/99) liner notes for Rhino Records 1949 - Call Of The Wild (added 2/28/99) an excerpt chapter from "Rock Odyssey" by Ian Whitcomb

43. Duke Ellington: A Who2 Profile duke ellington. â ¢. Jazz Musician / Composer The duke ellington Appreciation Society. Blacktie presentation of 'ellingtonia' http://www.who2.com/dukeellington.html

DUKE ELLINGTON Jazz Musician / Composer Name at Birth: Edward Kennedy Ellington Ellington started as a pool hall piano player and grew to become one of the great figures in American jazz. Ellington was one of the first to use classical themes in jazz, and is still considered one of the most innovative composers in jazz history. (Many of his later numbers were written with his longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn , who wrote Ellington's signature tune "Take the 'A' Train.") At the height of his career Ellington toured the world with his orchestra, and composed such standards as "Mood Indigo" and "In A Sentimental Mood." Extra credit : Stevie Wonder's pop hit "Sir Duke" is a tribute to Ellington. Edward K. "Duke" Ellington Biographical profile emphasizing Ellington as a composer The Duke Ellington Appreciation Society Black-tie presentation of 'Ellingtonia' Duke Ellington Sony Music presents a small site with Ellington's catalog The Ellington-Strayhorn Songbook Emphasis on the music, by a Japanese fan Birth: 29 April Birthplace: Death: 24 May 1974 (cancer) Best Known As: Performer of "Take the 'A' Train" Shop for Posters at AllPosters.com

44. Duke Ellington Centennial Celebration The duke ellington Centennial Celebration site is an educational website to commemorate the 100th anniversary of duke ellington s birth. http://www.dellington.org/

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45. Tübingen University Big Band Big Band of T¼bingen University, Germany. Traditional arrangements from duke ellington, Count Basie, Sammy Nestico, Stan Kenton and others are played as well as modern Compositions by Bob Mintzer and Matt Harris. http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/bigband/index-e1.html

Welcome to the Internet-Home of the Kontakt: Silke Eggert silke.eggert@gmx.net Musical Director: Back to German version The Big-Band at Traditional arrangements from Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sammy Nestico, Stan Kenton and others are played as well as modern Compositions by Bob Mintzer, Matt Harris and more. If you're looking for hot live music for festivals and events of all kind, this is right place! ( Booking info Musicians with jazz experience and good abilities in playing sheet music are always welcome. In the interest of continuous rehearsal though, please contact us during the first three weeks of each semester. Rehearsal during semester from 20:00 to 22:30 at the Clubhaus , Wilhelmstr. 30. Kontakt: Silke Eggert silke.eggert@gmx.net Index German Version The Band Repertoire Links ... Contact Designed and maintained by Guido Deimel This site graciously hosted by http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/bigband

46. Home Of Anachronism Read Lyrics (and practice the Chords) of beautiful songs by Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, duke ellington, Louis Armstrong, and The Lovin' Spoonful, among others. http://www.koolpages.com/almalaika/home.html

A 60 s liberal in the 21 Century is.. Anachronistic.. So: Welcome to the Homepage of Anachronism We are all anachronistic on occasion.. We act as though we belong to a different time, that is, the time we grew up in, or, in my case, the time which I unfortunately missed by being born a few years too late. Still, I love the music of the sixties. I feel that people were not paranoid at that era, humans were more open to one another, and life was somewhat simpler.. This page does not deal with the 60s as history, but as style, a frame of mind which sought racial and gender equity (“I have a Dream”), respected individual freedoms, and sought creativity rather than conformity (“I’d rather be a forest than a street”).. and distrusted the Government’s involvement in the affairs of other countries. It was also the period of free love. These issues will be the concern of this page. Now, I believe that we are living in a new 50s.. which was the ultra conservative era. So, as it will recede, a new 60s will resurge. Rather than nostalgia, this page celebrates the dawn of that new era.. First, some personal information and articles about love:

47. Biography Search Reader s Companion to American History -ellington, duke ellington, duke. Stanley Dance, The World of duke ellington (1970; reprint, 1981); duke ellington, Music Is My Mistress (1973). Mark Tucker. http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=14563

48. Duke Ellington's Washington The black community in ellington's time and a tour of the Shaw neighborhood where he grew up. Companion site to PBS documentary. http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc

Noted Black Washingtonians Duke Ellington Virtual Tour of Shaw Interviews Noted Black Washingtonians Duke Ellington Virtual Tour of Shaw Interviews ... Hedrick Smith Productions

49. Duke Ellington Translate this page duke ellington 1899-1974 Biographie, Biografie Zum 100. Geburtstag des Bandleaders, Komponisten und Pianisten Am 29. James Lincoln Collier duke ellington. http://www.cosmopolis.ch/cosmo3/Duke.htm

www. cosmopolis .ch Nr. 3, 15. Mai/14. Juni 1999 Aktuelle Ausgabe mit Archiv Musik Film Kunst ... Travel/Reisen Duke Ellington Biographie, Biografie Zum 100. Geburtstag des Bandleaders, Komponisten und Pianisten Washingtonians growl jungle style negros Songs Washingtonians zuerst Duke Ellington and his Washingtonians Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra und im Februar 1927 hiess die Band Duke Ellington and his Orchestra Cotton Club Shows, wobei beide als Songwriter Karriere machten. Von der Band schrieb Juan Tizol nach eigenen Angaben Lost in Meditation Perdido Admiration Caravan Cotton Club bad and tough guys Mitte der zwanziger Jahre waren Louis Armstrong oder Flechter Henderson die Vorbilder gewesen, denen die Jazzmusiker nacheiferten. Ab 1926-27 fand auch Duke zum richtigen Swing. Die jungle music scat -Gesang dazu, z.B. im Creole Love Call Cotton Club Black and Tan Fantasy Cotton Club Neben der jungle music Creole Rhapsody Rude Interlude Solitude und In a Sentimental Mood comper Life Reminiscing in Tempo Ko-Ko Jack the Bear oder Cotton Tail Chelsea Bridge oder Take the A-Train hot band in der Befragung von Down Beat . Hodges war 1937 bereits Zweiter der Sparte Altsaxophon gewesen, 1940 Nummer eins. Ellington war als Arrangeur 1939 Dritter. 1942 schlugen sie Goodmann als beste

50. CNN - Nation Remembers Duke Who Made Swing The Thing - April 30, 1999 CNN http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9904/30/duke.ellington/~hsindex.html

[an error occurred while processing this directive] MAIN PAGE WORLD ASIANOW U.S. ... news quiz CNN WEB SITES: TIME INC. SITES: Go To ... Time.com People Money Fortune EW MORE SERVICES: video on demand video archive audio on demand news email services ... pagenet DISCUSSION: message boards chat feedback SITE GUIDES: help contents search FASTER ACCESS: europe japan WEB SERVICES: Nation remembers Duke who made swing the thing WASHINGTON (CNN) This city of presidents is turning its attention to a duke, as jazz lovers and historians observe the centennial of the birth of one of America's most prolific composers, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington. Ellington is responsible for definitive American tunes from "Satin Doll" to "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)." Nearly everyone can claim a favorite among his works. He was born 100 years ago Thursday. This week, his legacy is the focus of lectures, performances and other special events in the capital and around the nation. "Everyone is starving for Ellington projects and Ellington works and Ellington evenings," says Mercedes Ellington, a choreographer who has arranged works to her grandfather's music. Although he was a bandleader, pianist and arranger, Duke Ellington was above all a composer, with more than 1,000 works to his name. And while he didn't like to be defined as a jazz musician, he's remembered as one.

51. Duke Ellington - The Black Renaissance In Washington, DC duke ellington Composer, Pianist and Jazz Bandleader April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974. Edward Kennedy ellington, born into the black http://www.dclibrary.org/blkren/bios/ellingtond.html

Duke Ellington Composer, Pianist and Jazz Bandleader Edward Kennedy Ellington, born into the black middle class of Washington, D. C. on April 29, 1899, was the son of James Edward Ellington and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. James Ellington made blueprints for the United States Navy and also worked as a White House butler for additional income. Because both of this parents played piano, Ellington was exposed to music at an early age. He began playing piano at age seven, performing professionally at age seventeen and formed a band at age 19. He was awarded a scholarship to study commercial art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, but he dropped out in his senior year to seek his fortune as a piano player in a local dance band. In In , Ellington began to record many of his compositions and the band’s reputation grew during the 1930s and 1940s. Some of his recordings during this period included "Mood Indigo", "It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing", "Sophisticated Lady", "Harlem Air-Shaft", and "Ko-Ko." Ellington was able to maintain his identifiable sound because many of his key musicians remained with him for several decades. Some of his long term band members included saxophonists "Toby" Otto Hardwick, Johnny Hodges and Paul Gonsalves; trumpeters Artie Whetsol, Bubber Miley and Cootie Williams; drummer "Sonny" William Greer and, pianist/composer Billy Strayhorn who wrote the band’s theme, "Take the ‘A’ Train".

52. Bright Lights Film Journal | Murder At The Vanities Review This 1934 musical mystery has girls, grins, guns, and duke ellington, too. http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/26/vanities.html

This 1934 musical mystery has girls, grins, guns, and Duke Ellington, too BY ALAN VANNEMAN "Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world." That was the legend above the entrance of Vanities were potent enough to inspire four movies: Murder at the Vanities (1945), and Earl Carroll Sketchbook (1946). Only the first, which is almost undoubtedly the best, is available on video. Murder at the Vanities is an intriguing cross between two genres, the murder mystery and backstage musical. Remarkably enough, it enjoys the strengths of both and the weaknesses of neither. The basic conceit of the film is that the murder (two of them, actually) must be both committed and solved during the course of the premiere performance of the Vanities. The focal point of Murder at the Vanities is stage manager Jack Oakie , who naturally wants to shut the place down. Paris , but by the time she hit the big screen she was pure Upper East Side. Carlisle kicks things off musically with "Where Do They Come From and Where Do They Go?", a number introducing us to the Vanities girls. (Strangely, we never really do find out where they come from or where they go.) Carlisle and Brisson have a funny desert island number together, "Live and Love Tonight," which features chorus girls covered with ostrich feathers pretending to be waves. They also sing "Cocktails for Two," a salute to the demise of Prohibition.

53. Bluebird Jazz RCA's jazz label. Includes artists such as Glenn Miller, duke ellington. http://www.bluebirdjazz.com

Choose an Artist 8 1/2 Souvenirs Allen, Henry Andrew Sisters With The Glenn Miller Orchestra, The Armstrong, Louis Atcheson, Randall Baker, Chet Barbieri, Gato Barretto, Ray Basie, Count Bechet, Sidney Beiderbecke, Bix Berigan, Bunny Blakey, Art Brecker Brothers, The Brown, Clifford Bugnon, Alex Carmichael, Hoagy Clooney, Rosemary Coltrane, Ravi Crosby, Bing, And Rosemary Clooney Crudup, Arthur "Big Boy" Desmond, Paul Dorsey, Tommy Douglas, Dave Eldridge, Roy Elias, Eliane Ellington, Duke Evans, Gil Evora, Cesaria Fountain, Pete Fourplay Gillespie, Dizzy Gonsalves, Paul Goodman, Benny Guaraldi, Vince Hampton, Lionel Hargrove, Roy Harrell, Tom Hawkins, Coleman Hill, Warren Hirt, Al Hodges, Johnny Horne, Lena Kitt, Eartha Konitz, Lee Leadbelly Makeba, Miriam Masekela, Hugh Mcrae, Carmen Mctell, Blind Willie Meadows, Marion Miller, Glenn Miller, Glenn/Tommy Dorsey Mingus, Charles Monk, Thelonious Morton, Jelly Roll Mulligan, Gerry Original Dixieland Jazz Band Original Soundtrack Peterson, Oscar Pizzarelli, John Puente, Tito Raney, Jimmy Reese, Della Reinhardt, Django Rich, Buddy

54. Tours Washington DC Focus on Frederick Douglass, Mary Mcleoud Bethune, duke ellington, and Jackie Robinson. http://blackeducationaltours.com/

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55. Ellington, Duke ellington, duke,. ellington. Reprinted writings. Ken Rattenbury, duke ellington, Jazz Composer (1990), studies his methods of composition. http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/micro/190/59.html

Ellington, Duke, Ellington Reprinted with permission of down beat magazine byname of EDWARD KENNEDY ELLINGTON (b. April 29, 1899, Washington, D.C.d. May 24, 1974, New York City), American composer, bandleader, and pianist who is among the most significant figures in jazz history and, along with Fletcher Henderson and Don Redman, was one of the founders of big-band jazz, which led to the swing era. Ellington studied piano from age seven and in his teens was influenced by ragtime pianists; at 17 he began to play professionally. The following year he renounced the fine arts, toward which his parents had oriented him, to devote himself to jazz. In about 1923, at the Kentucky Club in New York City, he led a small group that was later the core of his large band. In this period, the group contained Harry Carney, Sonny Greer, and, above all, Bubber Miley and Tricky Sam Nanton. Their tense or piercing sonorities constituted the essential element of the "jungle style" that asserted itself in pieces such as "Black and Tan Fantasy." Almost without interruption from then until his death, Ellington led a band that was his laboratory for composition

56. Vintage Music - Nostalgia, Jazz, Swing And Big Band CDs By Pastperfect jazz, big band and swing era nostalgia and music digitally remastered as cds featuring Glen Miller, duke ellington, Fats Waller, Billy Holliday amongst others. http://www.pastperfect.com

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57. Ellington, Duke. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 2001. ellington, duke. 1. See his memoirs, Music Is My Mistress (1973); M. Tucker, ed., The duke ellington Reader (1993); biographies by B. Ulanov (1946, repr. http://www.bartleby.com/65/el/Ellingto.html

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58. Jazz Music And MIDI MIDI files by Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Scott Joplin, and duke ellington. http://cdelker.tripod.com/music/music.html

var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Jazz and Ragtime Music Page The purpose of this page is to provide a small sample of high quality MIDI files of songs by my personal musical heroes. A few of them were sequenced by me, others I found and collected here. Also, my school has required a few research papers, which I chose to write about musical topics. Keep coming back, and look for my selections. Papers: Glenn Miller A biography of the band leader with MIDI files of his best songs. Already a Glenn Miller expert? Try the QUIZ. Invisible Piano Players : A history of the player piano. MIDI Only: Scott Joplin Count Basie Duke Ellington Classical ... Others: I don't have enough to make a seperate category yet... Christmas Music: These are not the most traditional forms of the carols... I will try to update this list frequently whenever I find/write more midi files, or write more related papers (mostly for school projects, that are usually graded by the teacher and never seen again ... so I will post them here and you can look at them.) View my Guestbook Sign my Guestbook You are visitor since May 24, 2000.

59. Ellington, Duke. The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002 2002. ellington, duke. A twentiethcentury African-American jazz composer, songwriter, and bandleader; his real first name was Edward. http://www.bartleby.com/59/8/ellingtonduk.html

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60. Jazz Photographs By Paul Slaughter Extensive classic photographic collection of jazz musicians, including duke ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Errol Garner and Sarah Vaughan. Available as fine art prints and for editorial usage. http://www.jazzphotoart.com/

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