Word: ellington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berle, who seemed more popular than presidents or prize fights, apparently was taking no chances on losing any viewers, even to Uptown Jubilee. Duke Ellington was a guest on his opening show. Announced for the second: Dodger Jackie Robinson and Dancer Bill Robinson...
When Mary Lou Williams was only eleven, Pittsburgh's jazzbos, including Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, were already calling for her after school to come and jam with them. Count Basie and Duke Ellington used to slide off their piano benches so she could sit down and they could listen. The night "Satchmo...
...twice-married Mary Lou was having no trouble adding more diamonds to her crown as a queen of jazz. In her spare time, she was still turning out such imaginative first-class concert arrangements as her Georgia Brown, Blue Skies and Shorty Boo for Duke Ellington (her latest: Scorpio and Lonely Moments). She had already conquered Carnegie Hall (in 1946), has since been on even more consecrated ground with concerts at Yale and Cornell...
Best big band: Duke Ellington...
...greeting in keeping with his shy, devotional manner. The lights went down; a solemn hush spread over the joint. With Charlie Barnet's big brass backing him, Eckstine gave them Somehow, in big, rich tones (he sings open-throated, instead of whispering into a microphone). His version of Ellington's Caravan had the fans hitting the trail (along with more than 1,000,000 record buyers). In his own rubbery phrasing, he stretched Ol' Man River to twice the length of the Mississippi, but the audience ate up every mile...