CD1: Swing Session; Medley: Solitude; In A Sentimental Mood; Harmony In Harlem; If You Were In My Place; Mood Indigo; East St. Louis Toodl-Oo; Oh Babe, Maybe Someday; Dinah’s In A Jam; If Dreams Come ...

"And Wynton has a lifelong obsession with Duke Ellington," he says. "And while Arlen was writing songs for the Cotton Club, Duke Ellington [led] the house band of the Cotton Club." 'Jungle Music ...

Duke Ellington plays his piano 50 years after ... where Ellington honed his bandleading chops at the Cotton Club. Fans can peek at the items for sale during a free preview May 17 and 18; the ...

Born in Washington, D.C., Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington rose to fame at Harlem's Cotton Club in the late 1920s. His career as a musician, composer, and bandleader spanned more than 50 years. Among ...

Duke’s experiences reveal the reality. Ellington first rose to fame at Harlem’s “whites only” Cotton Club in the 1920s. There, the only mingling of black and white happened on the piano ...

recording and performing with a talented if temperamental band (progressing from the Cotton Club to Carnegie Hall). The son of a butler and genteel, churchgoing mother, Ellington grew up pampered ...

Duke Ellington’s version of racial subversion ... His 1929 radio broadcasts from Harlem’s Cotton Club were, in the words of historian Philip K. Eberly, “the first important national ...

Duke Ellington and the sixteen other men in his ... It was playing at a theatre in Philadelphia when the proprietors of the Cotton Club in Harlem, which was just about to open, decided that ...

She got her start at the Cotton Club, dancing behind all the big bands that played there, including those fronted by Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and Lucky Millinder. She toured Europe ...

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was born in Washington ... had only half a dozen players when it reached New York in 1923. At the Cotton Club in Harlem, the size of his band increased to ...

Also: Duke Ellington’s Pulitzer ... “After Midnight,” on Broadway, time-travels back to the heyday of the Cotton Club as it moves through more than 25 songs from the jazz era.