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The U.S. State Department increased Duke Ellington's appearances worldwide, leading to a significant amount of positive international publicity. Ellington's tours around the world resonated with many who found freedom in Duke's music and identified with the shared struggle for liberation during the period of the Cold War. [29]
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
In a review in Journal of the American Musicological Society, William W. Austin wrote: "Schuller knows his subject as probably no one else does." [6] In a review in The American Historical Review, George A. Boeck wrote: "Gunther Schuller's history of early jazz is the most scholarly and perceptive work on the subject to date." [7]
While it is Ellington’s name on the album cover, the reason we treat his name as synonymous with jazz is because of the music his band created, writes Sammy Miller. Opinion: What made Duke ...
Duke Ellington's orchestra was the house band from December 4, 1927, until June 30, 1931. [16] The first revue that Ellington's orchestra performed was called the "Creole Revue" and featured Adelaide Hall. Hall had just recorded several songs with Ellington, including "Creole Love Call", a worldwide hit. [17]
Ellington at Newport is a 1956 live jazz album by Duke Ellington and his band of their 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, a concert which revitalized Ellington's flagging career. Jazz promoter George Wein describes the 1956 concert as "the greatest performance of [Ellington's] career...
Though some big bands survived through the late 1940s (Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Boyd Raeburn, Woody Herman), most of their competitors were forced to disband, bringing the swing era to a close. Big-band jazz would experience a resurgence starting in the mid-1950s, but it would never attain the same popularity as it had during ...
The Carnegie Hall Concerts: December 1944 is a live album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded at Carnegie Hall, in New York City in 1944 and released on the Prestige label in 1977. [1]