Duke Ellington. Recording with his orchestra for Columbia at 30th Street Studio, New York, 1962

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Duke Ellington recording with his orchestra for Columbia at 30th Street Studio, New York, 1962.

Duke Ellington (by name Edward Kennedy “Duke“ Ellington) was an American composer, pianist, and orchestra leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
At age seven, Ellington began taking piano lessons from Marietta Clinkscales. Daisy surrounded her son with dignified women to reinforce his manners and teach him elegance. His childhood friends noticed that his casual, offhand manner and dapper dress gave him the bearing of a young nobleman, so they began calling him "Duke". Ellington credited his friend Edgar McEntee for the nickname: "I think he felt that in order for me to be eligible for his constant companionship, I should have a title. So he called me Duke.

b. April 29, 1899 in Washington DC.
d. May 24, 1974 in New York.

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