On his first LP, recorded in 1950, the great bandleader took to the possibilities of the longer new form with unbounded style ...

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Nearly 60 years after Ellington’s performance in Senegal, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra revisits the African diaspora that shaped the composer’s work.

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There are rare insights into Duke Ellington in this book from Jack Chambers, his second on Duke Ellington. Chambers has also written important books on Miles Davis and Richard Twardzik. He is ...

Contents of cassettes: Maple leaf rag / Scott Joplin (Scott Joplin, piano) -- Carolina shout / James P. Johnson (James P. Johnson, piano) -- Soda fountain rag / E.K. Ellington (Charles Covington, ...