• Ellington at Newport is a 1956 live jazz album by Duke Ellington and his band of their 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, a concert which revitalized...
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    appearance by Ellington and his orchestra at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1956 led to a major revival and regular world tours. Ellington recorded for...
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  • Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington and the Buck Clayton All-Stars at Newport Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2023-02-12 Duke Ellington - Ellington...
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  • Paul Gonsalves (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo...
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    original release of Ellington at Newport. Columbia Records CL 934. Schaap, Phil (February 1999). Liner notes to Ellington at Newport (Complete). Columbia...
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  • Holiday at Newport, 1958 Ellington at Newport, a 1956 album by Duke Ellington Herbie Mann Live at Newport, a 1963 album by Herbie Mann Live at Newport (Christian...
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    jazz standard that was composed by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington and first performed by Ellington in 1936. Irving Mills wrote lyrics, but they are rarely...
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  • Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue (category Compositions by Duke Ellington)
    opposite sides of a 78 rpm record. The 1956 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival revitalized Ellington's career, making newspaper headlines when seated audience...
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    Mercer Kennedy Ellington (March 11, 1919 – February 8, 1996) was an American musician, composer, and arranger. His father was Duke Ellington, whose band...
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  • Newport 1958 is a 1958 album by Duke Ellington, recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival of that year and later in the Columbia recording studio. It was...
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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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    Morton". starwars.com. Retrieved August 28, 2015. "Backstory in Blue, Ellington at Newport '56". rutgerspress.rutgers.edu. Archived from the original on September...
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    Duke Ellington, not himself. Within two years Ellington's picture would appear on the cover of Time, following his success at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival...
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    The Duke Ellington School of the Arts (established 1974) is a high school located at 35th Street and R Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., and dedicated...
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  • The Ellington Suites is an album by the American pianist, composer, and bandleader Duke Ellington. It collects three suites recorded in 1959, 1971, and...
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  • Ellington Uptown (also released as Hi-Fi Ellington Uptown) is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington, recorded for the Columbia...
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  • Duke Ellington at Fargo, 1940 Live is a live album by the Duke Ellington Orchestra that won the Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1980...
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     231. ASIN B000878B3S. Morton, John Fass (2008). Backstory in Blue: Ellington at Newport '56. Rutgers University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0813542829. Smith...
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    Ray Nance (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    Rose (With Rosemary Clooney) (1956) Historically Speaking (1956) Ellington at Newport (Columbia, 1956) Such Sweet Thunder (Columbia, 1957) All Star Road...
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    Sam Woodyard (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    Duke Ellington At Newport (Columbia, 1956) Duke Ellington Presents... (Bethlehem, 1956) A Drum Is a Woman (Columbia, 1957) Ellington at Newport (Columbia...
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  • Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book is a 1957 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by Duke Ellington and his orchestra...
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    Dinah Shore (1947), Doris Day (1955), Duke Ellington, appearing on a 1999 expanded version of Ellington at Newport (1956), Bud Powell, The Genius of Bud Powell...
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  • Nutcracker Suite is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for Columbia Records in 1960 featuring jazz interpretations of...
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  • associated with Duke Ellington. Several of the tracks were later re-recorded in New York City due to sound problems with the live Newport recordings. Ken Dryden...
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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 the Grammy...
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    member of Duke Ellington's orchestra. It was first recorded for radio transcription on December 3, 1941, by Duke Ellington. The Duke Ellington Orchestra recorded...
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    Cat Anderson (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
    Historically Speaking (Bethlehem) 1956 Ellington at Newport (Columbia) 1957 All Star Road Band (Doctor Jazz, 1983) 1957 Ellington Indigos (Columbia) 1957 Such Sweet...
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  • premium-priced classical ... Morton, John Fass (2008). Backstory in Blue: Ellington at Newport '56. Rutgers University Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-8135-4282-9. Encyclopedic...
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  • C Jam Blues (category Compositions by Duke Ellington)
    "C Jam Blues" is a jazz standard composed in 1942 by Duke Ellington and performed by countless other musicians, such as Dave Grusin, Django Reinhardt...
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  • Duke Ellington is one of the following realisations: 1965 - Concert of Sacred Music 1968 - Second Sacred Concert 1973 - Third Sacred Concert Ellington called...
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