Reuters - Jul 16, 2009
Late jazz luminary Duke Ellington graced the Billboard 200 album chart for the first time in 41 years this week. Best of Duke Ellington opened at No. 186, marking the bandleader, composer and arranger...
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Young people climbed up the old marble columns of the hall for a better look at the band. The audience — including girls in headscarves — danced around the gilded balconies to oriental, hip-...
More »AP - Aug 17, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) — Max Roach got his first musical break at age 16, filling in when Duke Ellington s drummer fell ill in 1940. Those three nights spawned a career that would make the self-taught Roach...
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