Duke Ellington plays his piano 50 years after he ... used to come up with “Sophisticated Lady”? The circa-1920 baby grand is up for bid, and could fetch as much as $1 million.

Edward Kennedy "Duke Ellington was born in Washington D.C. on April 29 ... a close second to a career in commercial art as he now had married Edna Thompson and a baby was on the way. Ellington ...

Fans of Ellington’s toe-tapping “Hey Baby,” which he recorded with Rosemary Clooney... You’ve heard Duke Ellington, but never like this. Richard DeRosa, Grammy nominee and professor of ...

Around 250 of famed pianist and composer Duke Ellington’s personal ... and his legendary white baby grand piano. Below are some of Ellington’s items up for grabs. Throughout the bulk of ...

Duke Ellington — are what many critics consider the greatest body of work in 20th-century American music. Billy Strayhorn, frail little “Baby Boy Strayhorn” on his birth certificate ...

NEW YORK - Nearly 300 personal items belonging to jazz great Duke Ellington, including the white baby grand piano on which he composed some of his most famous songs, will be sold at auction on May ...

Duke Ellington, whose contours have something of ... In front of him a harassed mother was trying to soothe a crying baby and behind him two little boys, in the great day-coach tradition, were ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Duke Ellington, a giant in jazz history, was more than just a composer and bandleader—he was a cultural architect whose music told the stories of Black excellence, struggle ...