Collection consists of original cassettes, open-reel master, and reference cassette audiotapes of two oral history interviews about the life and career of Duke Ellington. Leonard Feather's oral ...
Thirty-nine oral history interviews created by the Archives Center with Duke Ellington's music and business associates. The interviews cover a range of topics including Ellington as a musician, the ...
Duke Ellington is unquestionably the most important and prolific jazz composer. He composed over 1,500 tunes and quite a few have become both jazz standards and part of Americana. Even folks who don't ...
Recorded live at the jazz festival 70 years ago, the famed rendition of ‘Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue’ reinvigorated the ...
On Dec. 19, 1950, Duke Ellington took his orchestra into a New York studio and recorded one of the most consequential albums of his career. LP technology was new, and “Masterpieces by Ellington” was ...
Despite their years in the spotlight, Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein had never met face to face, until a summer's day in 1966 in Milwaukee. Both men were performing concerts at Milwaukee's ...
All Duke Ellington concerts offered music of substance. Audiences listened patiently through the medleys and Tony Watkins' vocals. Some performances, however, stood apart because they contained ...
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