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    Biography

    Duke Ellington was the most important composer in the history of jazz as well as being a bandleader who held his large group together continuously for almost 50 years. The two aspects of his career were related; Ellington used his band as a musical laboratory for his new compositions and shaped his writing specifically to showcase the talents of his bandmembers, many of whom remained with him for ...more
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    Sound Clips

  • It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
  • Mood Indigo
  • Caravan
  • I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good)
  • Cotton
  • Scattin' at the Kit Kat
  • All God's Chillun Got Rhythm (Instrumental)
  • Stormy Weather
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    Web Links

  • Duke Ellington at The Music Box
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