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5 days ago · “Satin Doll” is a jazz standard penned in 1953 by Duke Ellington and his longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn. According to Duke’s son Mercer, his father wrote it for his longtime partner, Bea “Evie” Ellis. Strayhorn provided the harmonization, as often was the case with Ellington’s most popular compositions.
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4 days ago · Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington: The Story of a Friendship. In 1956, producer Normal Granz launched Ella Fitzgerald’s Song Book series with the release of Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book.
4 days ago · “Take the ‘A’ Train” is one of the Duke Ellington Orchestra’s signature tunes and one of Billy Strayhorn’s most famous compositions. It de facto replaced the band’s previous signature tune, “Sepia Panorama,” which Ellington had been prevented from using because of a 1940 dispute between the bandleader and the American Society ...
4 days ago · One of the greatest composers in American history, jazz giant Duke Ellington (1899-1974), pioneered the big band and swing styles, while writing and recording thousands of works. Born in Washington D.C. as Edward Kennedy Ellington, he learned piano from his mother at an early age, and was a performer by seventeen.
3 days ago · In 1935, Holiday had a small role as a woman abused by her lover in Duke Ellington's musical short film Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life. She sang "Saddest Tale" in her scene. [29]
8 hours ago · This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
3 days ago · On the road with Hampton, he displayed a gift for arranging songs. He moved to New York City , where he received freelance commissions writing arrangements for Charles, who was by then a close friend, and for Sarah Vaughan , Dinah Washington , Count Basie , Duke Ellington , and Gene Krupa .
