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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 - May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz orchestras. His career spanned over 50 years, leading his orchestra from 1923 until he died. Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington himself embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a "liberating principle", and referred his music to the more general category of "American Music", rather than to a musical genre such as "jazz". Check our available Duke Ellington Orchestra concert ticket inventory and get your tickets here at ConcertBank now. Sign up for an email alert to be notified the moment we have tickets!


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Vincent Henar from the band Fra Fra Sound maintains that Jazz was the first "world music" ? though the music originated in America from the clash/co-mingling of cultures, Jazz was embraced by the world as much as it embraced the world itself. While The Duke was not the first jazz musician to integrate ethnic elements into a jazz context, he did a super-fine job of it with Far East Suite...
- www.jazzreview.com
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This newly re-released CD, "Duke Ellington presents," originally recorded by Bethlehem Records in 1956, gives the listener a great to chance to hear the legendary Duke's band in its prime. Particularly, in this release the band's premier musicians are featured in solos. We get a chance to hear them at their best in mostly classic standard tunes given Ellington arrangements. "Summertime" features the king of high-note trumpeters, Cat Anderson, who hits the stratosphere in the closing bars...
- www.jazzreview.com
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On April 7, 1945, Duke Ellington begand a series of shows sponsored by the U. S. Treasury Department which ended 45 shows later on October 5, 1946. These albums were released by Sweden's Phontastic label's Nostalgia Series beginning in the early 1980's. Now almost 20 years later, Denmark's excellent Storyville label begins an undertaking to reissue all of these sessions on CD...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
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