My shiny wall by Ethan White https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6 Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2018-03-06 20:10:23 UTC 2023-02-24 05:45:09 UTC hello@padlet.com Duke Ellington 1899-1974 white259 https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239859359 2018-03-08 19:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239859359 white259 https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239869996 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.]]> 2018-03-08 19:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239869996 white259 https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239881457 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.]]> 2018-03-08 19:42:31 UTC https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239881457 Years active:1914–1974 white259 https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239883240 2018-03-08 19:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239883240 white259 https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239883883 Occupations:
  • Bandleader 
  • musician 
  • composer
  • conductor
]]> 2018-03-08 19:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239883883 Birth name white259 https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239884504 Edward Kennedy Ellington]]> 2018-03-08 19:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239884504 Ellington receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from then President Richard Nixon,in 1969. white259 https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239886746 2018-03-08 19:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239886746 white259 https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239888818 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.]]> 2018-03-08 19:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239888818 Websites: white259 https://padlet.com/white259/denwwka4afu6/wish/239891799 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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