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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.
Mildred Dixon, companion of Duke Ellington Mildred Dixon, companion of Duke Ellington. Mildred Dixon (November 21, 1904 – September 18, 2001 [1]) was a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, who became a longtime companion of composer and musician Duke Ellington, and manager of his company.
Strayhorn also arranged many of Ellington's band-within-a-band recordings and provided harmonic clarity and polish to Duke's compositions. Ellington gave Strayhorn full credit as his collaborator on later, larger works such as Such Sweet Thunder , A Drum Is a Woman , The Perfume Suite, and Far East Suite , where Strayhorn and Ellington worked ...
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 ...
1.1 Family life. 1.2 Elementary school. 1.3 High school. 1.4 College and law school. 2 Career. ... were socially acquainted with famous jazz musician Duke Ellington, ...
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 ...
Rudolph also voices a bath mat, the ghosts of Elizabeth Taylor and Whitney Houston, Principal Barren, Miss Clinkscales, Ellington's piano teacher, Gayle King, and Missy's aunt. Jordan Peele as the Ghost of Duke Ellington (1899–1974), the jazz musician whose spirit now lives in Nick's attic and sometimes offers him advice.
Her first book was Angels Along the Way: My Life from Help Above was released by G. P. Putnam's Sons and was released in 1997. Co-written by Franklin Lett and Mim Eichler, the book was a biography of Reese's life up to that point. [72] In 1999, Reese released a fictional children's book about spirituality called God Inside of Me. [73]