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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington#

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/music-popular-and-jazz-biographies/duke-ellington

https://www.biography.com/people/duke-ellington-9286338

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Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward, and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle, and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music, rather than to a musical genre such as jazz.

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Ellington receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from then President Richard Nixon,in 1969.

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Ellington receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from then President Richard Nixon,in 1969.

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Edward Kennedy Ellington

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Occupations:

Bandleader

musician

composer

conductor

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A prolific composer, Ellington created over two thousand pieces of music, including the standard songs “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” and “Sophisticated Lady”and longer works like Black, Brown, and Beige and The Liberian Suite.

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Duke Ellington was a musician,composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz and orchestra band ,which he led from 1923 until his death in 1974.