Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Quander family is believed to be the oldest documented African-American family that has come from African ancestry to present day America. Historians believe so because they cannot find any records of any other African-American family whose ancestry has been consistently kept and published. The Quanders are from the Fanti tribe of the Akan ...
In the late 1950s, he joined Barbara Dane's trio alongside pianist/cornetist Kenny Whitson, turning down opportunities to return to Duke Ellington's band or tour with Louis Armstrong. [3] He is a distant relative of the Marsalis brothers on their mother's side. [4] He died in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 76. [2]
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.
Hodges was born in the Cambridgeport neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to John H. Hodges and Katie Swan Hodges, both originally from Virginia. [2] After moving for a short period of time to North Cambridge, [3] the family moved to Hammond Street in the South End of Boston, where he grew up with saxophonists Harry Carney (who would also become a long-term member of Duke Ellington’s ...
Ellington was born in Washington, D.C., United States. [3] He was the only child of the composer, pianist, and bandleader Duke Ellington and his high school sweetheart Edna Thompson (d. 1967), whom Duke married in 1918 and never divorced. Ellington grew up primarily in Harlem from the age of eight. By the age of eighteen, Ellington had written ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Dave Chappelle's alma mater, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, is standing by the comedian despite recent backlash.In a statement issued on Sunday, the school said it will rename its theater ...
8th Duke of Wellington, Duke of Victoria, Prince of Waterloo, Marquess of Wellington, Marquess of Torres Vedras, Marquess Douro, Viscount Wellington, and Baron Douro, 9th Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, 12th Earl of Mornington and Viscount Wellesley: Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesley b. 1945