• Up in Duke's Workshop is an album by the American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington that collects sessions recorded in 1969, 1970, 1971 and...
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  • (brand) in Argentina "Blem" (song), Drake "Blem", by Duke Ellington from Up in Duke's Workshop BLEM vehicle tires are those which have some cosmetic...
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    "Duke Ellington's Lost Opera, Forever A Work In Progress". npr.org. Retrieved March 8, 2023. Vail, Ken (2002). Duke's Diary: The Life of Duke Ellington...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4. "Most-covered songs of all time". Alain, Pailler (2002). Duke's place, Ellington et ses imaginaire. France: Actes sud. p. 147. ISBN 978-2-7427-3691-1...
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  • Buster Cooper (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    Concert (Atlantic, 1973) Duke Ellington's Jazz Violin Session (Atlantic, 1976) Up in Duke's Workshop (Pablo, 1979) Concert in the Virgin Islands (Discovery...
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  • Take the "A" Train (category Duke Ellington songs)
    Strayhorn that was the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra. In 1976, the 1941 recording by Duke Ellington on Victor Records was inducted into...
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    Billy Strayhorn (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    in the back of my head, my brain waves in his head, and his in mine." Strayhorn was a gifted composer and arranger who seemed to flourish in Duke's shadow...
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    Cat Anderson (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    (Jazzline, 2016) 1969 70th Birthday Concert (Solid State) 1969–71 Up in Duke's Workshop (Pablo, 1976) 1970 New Orleans Suite (Atlantic) 1977 The Carnegie...
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  • Duke's Big 4 is a studio album by the American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington, featuring a small group session with Joe Pass, Ray Brown...
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    Mercer Ellington (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    Duke Ellington and his high school sweetheart Edna Thompson (d. 1967), whom Duke married in 1918 and never divorced. Ellington grew up primarily in Harlem...
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  • recordings by Duke Ellington, including those nominally led by his sidemen (mainly in the 1930s and early 1940s), and his later collaborations (mainly in the 1960s)...
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  • Ella at Duke's Place is a 1965 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington, accompanied by his Orchestra. While it was the second (and last) studio...
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    choreographer, who were co-founders of Workshops for Careers in the Arts in 1968. In 1974 this workshop program developed into the Duke Ellington School of the Arts...
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    (Impulse!, 1961) With Duke Ellington New Orleans Suite (Atlantic, 1971) The Intimate Ellington (Pablo, 1969–71 [1977]) Up in Duke's Workshop (Pablo, 1969–72...
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  • Duke Ellington & John Coltrane is a jazz album by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane. It was released in January 1963 through Impulse! Records. It was one...
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  • Money Johnson (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    1970) The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse (Original Jazz Classics, 1971) Up In Duke's Workshop (Original Jazz Classics, 1972) The Ellington Suites: The Queen's Suite/The...
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  • This One's for Blanton! (category Duke Ellington albums)
    bandleader Duke Ellington, duetting with Ray Brown, recorded in December 1972 and released on the Pablo label. The title refers to early Duke Ellington...
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  • Ivie Anderson (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    Anderson was a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra for more than a decade. Ivie Anderson was born July 10, 1905, in Gilroy, California. Although her...
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    Louie Bellson (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    People (Contact, 1963) A Concert of Sacred Music (RCA Victor, 1965) Ella at Duke's Place (Verve, 1965) With Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Ella and Louis...
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    Barney Bigard (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    clarinetist known for his 15-year tenure with Duke Ellington. He also played tenor saxophone. Bigard was born in New Orleans to Creole parents, Alexander and...
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  • It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (category Songs with music by Duke Ellington)
    Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills. It is now accepted as a jazz standard...
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  • Luther Henderson (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    professional association with a number of musical notables of the era, including Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Jule Styne, and Richard Rodgers. Notably, Henderson...
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    Juan Tizol (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    Trombonist". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 August 2021. Dietrich, Kurt. Duke's Bones. Germany: Advance Music, 1995. Print. Serrano, Basilio. "Juan Tizol:...
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    Ben Webster (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    American jazz tenor saxophonist. He performed in the United States and Europe and made many recordings with Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Johnny Hodges,...
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    Johnny Hodges (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    Perdido 1955: Creamy (Norgran) 1956: Ellingtonia '56 (Norgran) 1956: Duke's in Bed (Verve) 1957: The Big Sound (Verve) 1958: Blues A-Plenty (Verve) 1958:...
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    Lawrence Brown (jazz trombonist) (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    (Reprise, 1964) Ella at Duke's Place (Verve, 1966) Duke Ellington's Concert of Sacred Music (RCA Victor, 1966) The Popular Duke Ellington (RCA Victor,...
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  • Second Sacred Concert (Fantasy, 1968) Duke Ellington, Up in Duke's Workshop (Pablo, 1979) Slim Gaillard, Opera in Vout (Verve, 1982) Earl Hines, Varieties...
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  • Don't Get Around Much Anymore (category Songs with music by Duke Ellington)
    1 on the US Billboard R&B chart in 1943. Both were top-ten pop records, along with a version by Glen Gray. The Duke Ellington version reached No. 8 on...
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  • C Jam Blues (redirect from Duke's Place)
    originated from the clarinetist Barney Bigard in 1941, but its origin is not perfectly clear. It was also known as "Duke's Place", with lyrics added by Bill Katts...
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  • Paul Gonsalves (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue...
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