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Hace 3 días · In 1962 Louis and Duke paired to record two well-received LP albums – Together For The First Time and The Great Reunion. Basie, who did record with Ellington (First Time! The Counts Meets The Duke) said that not recording with Louis was “one of my big regrets”. Appropriately, he and Duke were pallbearers at Armstrong’s funeral.
Hace 5 días · Song of the Day: Duke Ellington – “In A Mellow Tone”. by Brian Zimmerman. Bandleader and pianist Duke Ellington wrote the jaunty swing piece “In a Mellow Tone” (sometimes displayed as “In a Mellotone”) in 1939, but the song wasn’t officially recorded until this day (September 5) in 1940.
Hace 3 días · Even if one doesn't think of jazz as a religion, as many fans do, one can appreciate Larry Tye referring to Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington as "jazz's Holy Trinity" in his admiring biography The Jazzmen.Tye is only slightly hyperbolic when he writes that this book is about "three revolutionary American maestros, the jazzmen whose music throbs at the soul of twentieth-century ...
Hace 4 días · A new book by Larry Tye -- The Jazzmen -- traces how the popularity of musicians Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie affected the civil rights movement.
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Hace 4 días · Published May 29, 2024 at 4:03 AM EDT. A new book by Larry Tye -- The Jazzmen -- traces how the popularity of musicians Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie affected the civil rights movement.
Hace 4 días · About his mentor, collaborator and estranged friend Duke Ellington the composer Billy Strayhorn said “Ellington plays the piano, but his real instrument is his band. Each member of his band is to him a distinctive tone colour and set of emotions which he mixes with others equally distinctive to produce a third thing, which I like to call the ‘Ellington Effect’.”
