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Duke Ellington is a african american  musician who is considered one of the, if not the best jazz musicians of all time. He had his own band who toured around the world playing. His music is still relevant to jazz today.

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Duke Ellington is still considered of the best musicians to ever do it. He was one of the most famous musicians ever and brought jazz to the front stage in america and forever changed jazz with his work.

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Duke Ellington and his band would perform at extremely fancy and popular resturants, hotels, and venues but was still discriminated by those same places. He couldnt stay at any popular hotel, often forced to sleep in black boarding houses. Resturants he played out would not serve his band food and made them enter and exit throught the back of the resturant, keeping them in the place for a little time possible. Eventually in 1961 he wouldnt play for a segregated audience ever again. He would play at many charitable events and would often speak out about race.

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Duke Ellington and his band were the most popular band in america at their peak. He played with other extremely famous musicians and singers like Jon Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong and many more. One of his albums was at the top of the billboards for six weeks straight and is now in the grammy Hall of Fame.

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Duke Ellington grew up in a middle class african american family in Washington D.C. Although his social class, he still esxperienced lots of hardships growing up, especially the racims in Washington D.C. at the time. He grew up during the red summer of racial attacks and mobs, some of which were in Washington D.C.