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    Ellington, Duke
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ELLINGTON, DUKE (Edward Kennedy Ellington), 1899 1974, American jazz musician and composer, b. Washington, D.C. Ellington made his first professional appearance as a jazz pianist in...
     
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    Strayhorn, Billy
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...written just before he met Duke Ellington , with whom he became a lifelong...sometimes playing piano for the Ellington orchestra. Strayhorns compositions...difficult to tell which of the Dukes works have passages by the...achievements and contributions to the Ellington sound were not fully understood...
     
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    Mingus, Charles
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...his career he played with Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Red Norvo, Charlie Parker, and Duke Ellington, to whom he dedicated his Open Letter to Duke. He organized his first group, a sextet, in 1945, and later (1955) formed the Charles...
     
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    Ailey, Alvin, Jr
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Creature (1975), and At the Edge of the Precipice (1983). He also choreographed a series of ballets to music by Duke Ellington , notably The River (1970), and created works for other companies, including the American Ballet Theatre, the...
     
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    Jones, Quincy
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...After 1951 he played with Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie and was also an arranger for such jazz greats as Duke Ellington , Tommy Dorsey , Count Basie , and his childhood friend Ray Charles . Jones traveled to Paris in 1957, where he studied...
     

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