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Edward K Duke Ellington Biography Ellington was recognized in his lifetime as one of the greatest jazz composers and performers. Nicknamed Duke by a boyhood friend who admired his regal air, the name stuck and became indelibly associated with the finest creations in big band...Biography, discography, essays, articles, links, and a personal memory of the author's daughter and the composer's music.
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Rude Interlude, a Duke Ellington home page Ellington personified elegance and sophistication. More importantly, he was a workaholic creative genius who never stopped exploring new dimensions of his musical world. Rude Interlude is dedicated to the memory and musical legacy of Edward Kennedy Ellington Duke with the...Appreciative essay by Fred Barrett, contrasting his style with that of Fletcher Henderson and Don Redman and tracing his movement into orchestral composition.
http://www.temple.edu/music/composers/ellington.html
(1899-1974) Biography, discography, links, reviews, mailing list information.
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Artists: Duke Ellington Ellington began as a stride pianist, and matured into a composer/arranger who was comfortable in a wide range of ensembles from piano and bass duo, to large orchestras. In 1927 his band became house band at the Cotton Club, a...Biographical data and essay, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and link to biography from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers.
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Ellington, Duke Even though the majority of his work was in popular jazz idioms, Ellington composed a small quantity of works for classical ensembles and one opera. His music has influenced many composers in a variety of idioms. Below is an essay...Promotional material for Honolulu event sponsored by the Hawaii Academy of Performing Arts. Includes various essays on his music and responses to it.
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Duke Ellington Picture Link Book This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them....Official site. Includes biographical information plus appreciation, his interpreters, sound clips, information about the society, links.
http://museum.media.org/duke/
Project of the Washington, D.C. Ellington Society. List of compositions, sessions, information on joining other societies and Love You Madly, an e-mail discussion group, glossary, time line, centennial remembrances, news, and links.
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A Duke Ellington Panorama Your browser does not support frames. Click here to go to the frame free version....Includes a biography, a photo gallery, lengthy discography with audio clips, four classic Down Beat magazine articles, and a message board.
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Down Beat Magazine ...Official site maintained by CMG Music. Includes biography, photos and quotes by and about Ellington.
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Duke Ellington The Official Web Site Estate of Mercer K. Ellington c/o CMG Worldwide...Features a digital portrait gallery and links to other related sites.
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Duke Ellington Duke Ellington by Rosalind Letcher You Are Visitor Duke Ellington For This Millenium-a digital portrait gallery. ChildhoodPortraitAt the KeyboardComposerFamous Face Duke Today BEST LINKS! Contact Webmaster...Interactive catalog offers sound samples, quiz questions, quotes, original art and products featuring Duke Ellington.
http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com...le.cfm?CatalogName=ellingtonduke
Picture and biography.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~mcgoni/ella/dukebio.html
Biography tracing his movement from small bands through the "jungle" big band style and on to extended compositions, including orchestral pieces, and noting other types of works. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa.../learning/grove.html?record=2877
Biography, portrait photographs, pictures of his tombstone, cemetery details, and interactive homage.
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Find A Grave Cemetery Records- Duke Ellington His written contributions are almost innumerable: thousands of songs and dozens of works in symphonic form, as well as complete scores for ballet, theater and film. His artistic development and sustained achievement are among the most spectacular in the history...Biography, filmography noting movies and TV programs based on or using his works, and musician, actor, and guest appearance credits from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
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Duke Ellington A metastasized lung cancer, pneumonia) Mini biography Composer 34;It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing" 34;Sophisticated show more) Sometimes Credited As: Kennedy Edward Duke EllingtonEllingtonDuke Ellington and Ella FitzgeraldDuke Ellington and His Orchestra Photo Gallery IMDbPro...Biography, discography, record reviews, and internal links to related artists and members of his orchestra.
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Duke Ellington at PeanutsJazz.com Both are the highest civilian honors of each country. He was known as The Duke Duke Ellington was a major force in jazz from the 1920's through the 1960's and his work continues to be influential today. He is considered...Overview of Ellington's career and review of the collection "The Duke."
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Duke Ellington: The Duke: The Essential Collection, 1927-1961 PopMatters Music Review Z various downloads front page Duke Ellington The Duke: The Essential Collection, 1927-1961 (Sony/Legacy) by Mark Anthony Neal It is only now that we are seriously beginning to explore the complexities of African-American performance. For years it has been so...A contrast of the wildness of many of his works with their underlying order using "Happy Go Lucky Local" as his example. By Alan Shapiro.
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Alan Shapiro All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves Eli Siegel WILDNESS AND ORDER IN ELLINGTON’S “HAPPY GO LUCKY LOCAL” by Alan Shapiro (Note: The recording used...CDs, sound file: 'Caravan,' videos, DVD, and books.
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Duke Ellington It may be a stunning composition, an innovative arrangement, or an astonishing improvisational passage, but the brilliance is there.It is only fitting that the greatest figure in 20th-century popular music is the subject of this most wondrous box set. Across...Compositions and arrangements by him and by Ellingtonians plus lists and commentaries, essays, literature, and links. By Hans-Joachim Schmidt.
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Duke I sought information about the creative process and the development of arrangements. Then I had to find my way through the collected material. So I wrote the following lists. This is not intended to be complete. A thousand tunes by...Wikipedia article with photographs, biographical and musicological details, OGG audio samples, and internal references to related topics and people, including other jazz "royalty."
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Duke Ellington Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Both are the highest civilian honors of each country. He was known as The Duke see: Jazz royalty Duke Ellington was a major force in jazz from the 1920s through the 1960s and his work continues to be influential today....German musicologist Jørgen Mathiasen offers research paper on Duke Ellington's known works, with lengthy bibliography and alphabetical list of 1,770 titles.
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Index Jazz is only a word and has no meaning The Duke Ellington pages of the site with Index to Music is My Mistress with more than 4600 references. Republished January 2005 Key to Ellington's production as a composer. Updated July...