Ellington

[ el-ing-tuhn ]

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Edward Kennedy Duke, 1899–1974, U.S. jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor.

Ellington

/ ˈɛlɪŋtən /

EllingtonDuke18991974MUSMUSIC: composerMUSIC: pianistMUSIC: conductor Duke, nickname of Edward Kennedy Ellington. 1899–1974, US jazz composer, pianist, and conductor, famous for such works as "Mood Indigo" and "Creole Love Call"

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The rolling bounce and swing of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.

My peers may have laughed at me but they knew who Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were.

Ellington has an extraordinary record for attracting families, or their tuition dollars, to the District.

Ellington officials say that may have had something to do with the failure to create a new funding formula for the school.

At Ellington, school officials said, 99 percent of students graduate, compared with 65 percent for rest of the District.

Can she interpret the works of George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and Cole Porter with plausibility?

Duke Ellington, for instance, who really catapulted to fame late in 1927.

That explains Brando, Duke Ellington, Greta Garbo, Muhammad Ali and of course James Dean.

Albert Murray, 97 Duke Ellington called him “the unsquarest man I know.”

George Duke, 67 When he was five, his mother took him to see Duke Ellington.

Lady Ellington thought this over for a moment, and the conclusion apparently was most satisfactory.

The gardener there was still engaged in his belated mowing, and Lady Ellington examined the cutter with a magisterial air.

The talk had got for him, at any rate, suddenly serious, and he looked up at Lady Ellington with a sparkling eye.

She wants to do things not soon, but immediately, Philip, how awfully pretty Miss Ellington is.

They had come opposite the drawing-room window, and as they passed Lady Ellington stepped out on to the terrace.

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