Similar words: wellington, duke ellington, wellington boot, duke of wellington, arlington, Darlington, burlington, be willing to. Meaning: n. United States jazz composer and piano player and bandleader (1899-1974).
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1. The famous jazz musician, Duke Ellington, was a composer, arranger and pianist.
2. Ellington got a great fellow composer and arranger.
3. The Duke Ellington Orchestra is conducted by Mercer Ellington.
4. Ellington mourned deeply when Strayhorn died, second only to his shattering grief for his beloved mother.
5. He joined Duke Ellington in October 1939, but after only two years was admitted to hospital with ultimately fatal tuberculosis.
6. He joined the Ellington band following the final departure of Sonny Greer from 1951-3.
7. Ellington thrived in the limelight and success that his backstage partner contributed to so significantly during their almost three-decade collaboration.
8. But Ellington, a duke with an imperious streak, never wanted Strayhorn to stray far from his empire.
9. Duke Ellington and Count Basie also tarnished their reputations by recording brassy versions of Beatle tunes.
10. Big-band music, especially Duke Ellington, and both traditional and modern jazz also appealed to the teenager.
11. This cooperation became the method Ellington used again and again to produce beautiful sound colors.
12. Ellington was a great artist and an elegant, articulate man.
13. Ellington said that by the time he was 20 he had read the Bible three times.
14. Referred to fondly as Maestro,[sentencedict.com/ellington.html] Ellington loved writing music for his band.
15. Duke Ellington was a great artist and an elegant, articulate man.
16. James Ellington was a butler and a caterer, but he was prosperous by African-American standards of the time, and extensively self-educated thanks to the library of his employer, a doctor.
17. What other kind of music do you think Ellington wrote?
18. At the same time, Duke Ellington and the members of his orchestra began recording their songs.
19. But Ellington says his team does not worry about outside expectations.
20. When he was about seven years old, Duke Ellington began to play the piano.
21. Edward Kennedy Ellington was born on April 29 th, 1899, in Washington, D . C .
22. Like many dance-band musicians of that era, Ellington quickly realised that the vibrant new jazz sounds coming up from New Orleans represented a potent source of new ideas.
23. The Mingus music this reviewer knows offers a richness and sophistication that compares with the exultant mastery of Duke Ellington.
24. Hajdu sheds new, revelatory light on the complex relationship between Strayhorn and Ellington.
25. This period produced musicians like Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington.
26. Mr. Bellson was a big band drummer in the 40s and 50s, who performed with Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Duke Ellington among others.
27. Among his most famous pictures, Dizzy Gillespie swayed in clouds of cigarette smoke and Duke Ellington hunched over the keyboard.
28. However, he also made jazz recordings with Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, and other well - known artists.
29. The series included songs by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, and others.
30. Racial laws and racial hatred were to follow Edward Kennedy Ellington all through his life.
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