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The Duke
... It definitely didn't have the form and polish it acquired later on." (Collier, 80) The Cotton Club was the ideal setting for the Duke Ellington Orchestra. ...
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Duke Ellington 2
... At the turn of the seventies, though, Ellington's orchestra began to wane a bit, and with the sudden death of Jonny Hodge's, the orchestra began to undergo a ...
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Duke Ellington
... is considered to be Take the A Train, even though it was written by his longtime associate Billy Strayhorn it became the theme song of Ellington's orchestra. ...
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Duke Ellington
... Improvisation was a big part of Ellington's music. One of Ellington orchestra's signature tunes is "Take the 'A' Train" (1941). ...
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jazz
... He later formed the famous Duke Ellington Orchestra, contained 12 talented musicians and achieved national prominence through publicity, radio, and film ...
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duke ellington
... (Brown, 39-45) On the musical side of Duke Ellington's achievements would ... jazz-influenced American dance band of the time, to a real jazz orchestra(Williams, ...
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Duke Ellington
... crept up on Duke Ellington, he began writing liturgical music. His most famous piece was, "In the Beginning God," which was written for orchestra chorus and ...
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Swingin In the 1930s A Decade of Innovative Music
... In the words of the great Duke Ellington, "It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing!" Bibliography Bibliography Bergmeier ... Glenn Miller Orchestra. ...
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1920' jazz
... What makes him unique is that he composed music individually for the members of his orchestra instead of lumping them all together. Ellington's opening of the ...
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Jazz in New York and Chicago During the 1920s
... What makes him unique is that he composed music individually for the members of his orchestra instead of lumping them all together. Ellington's opening of the ...
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Lena Horne
... After her divorce she began singing with Noble Sissie's Society Orchestra. ... Billy Strayhom was the chief music-writer for Duke Ellington. ...
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Jazz Giants
... Jazz Age" dominated by Bessie Smith, and people at the top such as Duke Ellington. ... and powerful, you would think he was a French horn in a symphonic orchestra. ...
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Clayton Bates
... with many orchestras at big clubs, and even performed with Duke Ellington at the ... on his peg leg and continue to hop on it while the orchestra accented each hop ...
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Louis Armstrong
... and he started a band called Louis Armstrong and his Sebastian New Cotton Orchestra. ... In 1961, Louis paired with Duke Ellington to make a jazz album which then ...
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josephine baker
... Duke Ellington starred in the first primetime radio program to feature an African ... Baby" and "J'ai Deux Amones." Ms. Baker married French orchestra leader Jo ...
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jazz in the 20s
... Chicago to replace a band there at the time called "Bill Johnson's Original Creole Orchestra." Either way ... Duke Ellington is one of these, perhaps the best known ...
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Joe
... While there, he and Kid Ory played in Bill Johnson's Band, The Original Creole Orchestra. ... That gig went to a young Duke Ellington. ...
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