Duke Ellington
Title: Duke Ellington
Category: /Society & Culture/People
Details: Words: 1647 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Duke Ellington
Category: /Society & Culture/People
Details: Words: 1647 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Life of a Pioneer One of the greatest jazz composers that has ever lived is, arguably, Duke Ellington. Born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington D.C. in 1899. By the age of 17 was playing professionally. In 1923 he moved to New York City where he started recruiting people for his orchestra. He started off with an average jazz band of ten people but through the thirties and forties that number greatly expanded. He started playing in
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