Duke Ellington

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United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader (1899-1974)

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There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. Boris Vian

He could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll. Miles Davis

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. David Amram

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. Lawrence Welk

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known. Mose Allison

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone. Steve Lacy

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