Word: ellington
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MODERN JAZZ QUARTET: FOR ELLINGTON (East-West). Part homage, part re- invention, this is a ravishing tribute by one of the premier jazz groups to one of America's greatest composers. The MJQ pay the Duke the ultimate honor: they don't just respect him, they make him swing...
Connick said he thought the best jazz musicians were Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. "They understood blues--they captured the essence of the American experience...
Those who survived had a nightmarish choice: to jump as far as 150 ft. down into a fiery sea or face certain death on the disintegrating rig, located 120 miles off the coast of Scotland. "It was just bloody horrific," said Derek Ellington, 45, a rigger. "Two-thirds of that platform melted with the heat and disappeared." Recalling the scene from a hospital in the Scottish city of Aberdeen, Andy Mochan, 48, a superintendent on the rig, said, "It was fry or jump, so I jumped...
...They collide and cross- pollinate and mix it up, nowhere more so than in the arts and popular culture. Sparks fly at the meeting points. The Jewish novel works variations on the keynotes of Puritan gloom. The western is reseen through John Ford's Irish eyes. Sinatra meets Duke Ellington. Every offering is admitted and set dancing with new partners. It may be better to give, but it's a lot more fun to receive...
AMERICAN MASTERS (PBS, debuting July 11, 9 p.m on most stations). The spotlight is on Lillian Gish in the first of this season's profiles. Upcoming in the eight weeks following: Duke Ellington, Augustus Saint Gaudens, the Algonquin Round Table...