Duke Ellington Pictures, Lyrics, Relationships, Biography, Discography, Videos, News, Ringtones

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 long periods. Ellington also wrote film scores and stage musicals, and several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. In addition to touring year in and year out,...Read more

• Duke Ellington Christmas  (2006)
• Caravan [Giants of Jazz]  (2006)
• At the Rainbow Grill 1967  (2006)
• At the Hurricane 1943  (2003)
• Big Band Classics the War Years: Perdido  (2003)

• 1934 Belle of the Nineties
• 1942 Jam Session
• 1949 Symphony in Swing
• 1957 The United States Steel Hour
• 1959 Anatomy of a Murder

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• I've Got To Be A Rug Cutter

• East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
• Hop Head
• Down In Our Alley Blues
• What Can A Poor Fellow Do
• Black and Tan Fantasy