Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living room. By seven, I knew what I wanted to hear: Ella at Birdland, Sinatra's 45 of "Chicago," with "Witchcraft" as the flip, Sammy Davis when he was still Junior, Sinatra's Christmas Album (only recently replaced in stereo), the two double albums of Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington, with emphasis on "Satin Doll," and "A Train." Van Morrison sings in the same tradition. Like those predecessors, he simply possesses his songs. A song written for Sinatra was Sinatra's; there could be no adequate convers. To my knowledge, only two of Morrison's songs have been covered...
Every summer since 1965, when he helped found it, Taylor has made sure that the truck-borne bandstands of Jazzmobile have brought performers like Duke Ellington, Carmen McRae, Dizzy Gillespie and Taylor himself to the ghettos of New York and fifteen other U.S. cities. As Jazzmoblie's fundraising, talent-coordinating president, Taylor also gives two lecture-concerts a week in New York City's public schools and conducts a piano class in a workshop program at Harlem's Intermediate School 201 on Saturday mornings...
...Babes of Summer represent the third phase of Alston's career with the Dodgers. Phase I began in Brooklyn when he inherited from Charlie Dressen a club of sluggers led by Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges and Duke Snider. Back then, explains Alston, "it was simply a matter of playing it close to the vest until one of your big guns broke up the game with a home run." Phase II came after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958 and had to rely on speed and pitching to make up for their gradual loss of gun power...
Ella Fitzgerald. My musical upbringing was slim; I could play "Hot Cross Buns" on the recorder, because it only took three fingers on one hand. My parents also had three Ella Fitzgerald records. I grew up on Ella with Duke, doing "Take the A Train," "Satin Doll," "I Got It Bad, (And That Ain't Good)," and others. Ella with Duke, Ella with Basie, Ella with Blue Oyster Cult, shoot, I can listen to her anytime. Whether she's playing with, or in front of The World's Greatest Jazz Band I'm not sure, but I'm told...
...What's your wife's name?" Duke Ellington asked the man who was standing next to the piano. Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, the French ambassador to the U.S., answered, "Yanie." "Well, then," said the 74-year-old musician, "this tune will be called Yanie." He played a few bars for the crowd that had gathered in Manhattan's French consulate to see Ellington presented with the French Legion of Honor-the first to go to a jazz musician. The ambassador answered back on the piano with a few bars of Ellington's Mood Indigo...