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...uneven world… lionized across the ocean, marginalized at home… This film is filled with the opportunity to re-immortalize Cab Calloway… Of course we will access and hope to invoke the vast archival material, not simply from the Calloway estate but from others...
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But from the first night, the house band wiped the floor with them. Still, the audience, which also voted for best band leader, picked Cab, who was offered the job of conducting the winners: the Missourians. Once again, thanks to Cab Calloway, they...
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A picture taken 20 December 1960 in Paris shows American jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong (L), Rene Unteregger (C) awarded with the Django Reinhardt Prize, and Duke Ellington posing together in Paris. Armstrong and Ellington were awarded for their albums... View Photo »
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And they'd say that's where Ella Fitzgerald stays, that's where Duke Ellington stays. We couldn't stay at any of those places. I think what it did was upgrade us from local yokel hotels to something much nicer
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Among those greats whose lives are constantly celebrated in Harlem through monuments and such are the likes of Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, and Malcolm X. But there is one African American notable that is not often attributed to Black History, but...
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Ellington's sacred music represents some of the most misunderstood and rarely heard work in his vast canon. Written mostly in the 1960s near the end of Ellington's life, the music stems from three formal Sacred Music Concerts created between 1965 and...
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7:30 and 9:30 p.m. sets on Friday at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater. Both shows are sold out, but it's worth contacting the box office for last minute availability. Bassist Karine Chapdelaine and pianist Bob Sykes take on the Duke Ellington/Jimmy...
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ARLINGTON, VA - MARCH 14: U.S. President Barack Obama looks a projected photo of Duke Ellington, which he signed as he visits with students in a classroom while at Kenmore Middle School to deliver a speech on reforming education March 14, 2011 in... View Photo »
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That led me to frontier jazz and then early Duke Ellington
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Audience members donned 3-D glasses for a "fantasy film" segment in which an actor playing Robeson visits Harlem's Cotton Club and sings "Danny Boy" with backing by Duke Ellington on piano. Robeson, born in Princeton in 1898, was a singer, actor,...
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And they said in order for it to be music, you play it and it sounds one way. I play it and it has to sound the same way. But, that’s not how jazz works.” Many important figureheads of music that came out of the Harlem Renaissance can be searched on...
About Duke Ellington
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader. Full Article
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ARLINGTON, VA - MARCH 14: U.S. President Barack Obama looks a projected photo of Duke Ellington, which he signed as he visits with students in a classroom while at Kenmore Middle School to deliver a speech on reforming education March 14, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia. President Obama...
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US President Barack Obama signs a students presentation of Duke Ellington March 14, 2011, as he visits Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Virginia. Obama on Monday issued a new pledge of support for Japan, saying he was 'heartbroken' at the toll of 'multiple disasters' after an...
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 24: Verdine White of Earth, Wind and Fire performs a benefit concert for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on February 24, 2011 in Washington, DC.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 24: (L-R) Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, B. David Whitworth and Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind and Fire perform a benefit concert for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on February 24, 2011 in Washington, DC.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 24: Greg Moore and Morris O'Connor or Earth, Wind and Fire perform a benefit concert for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on February 24, 2011 in Washington, DC.
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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 24: (L-R) B. David Whitworth and Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind and Fire perform a benefit concert for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on February 24, 2011 in Washington, DC.
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President Barack Obama walks away after signing his name during his visit to a music classroom at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va. , Monday, March, 14, 2011. The students had done a presentation on Musician Duke Ellington.
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ARLINGTON, VA - MARCH 14: U.S. President Barack Obama looks a projected photo of Duke Ellington, which he signed as he visits with students in a classroom while at Kenmore Middle School to deliver a speech on reforming education March 14, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia. President Obama...
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