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Steve Allen Show (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Gene Nelson, Duke Ellington...
...Duke Ellington, "in concert" (with whom, the ads don't say) at John Hancock Hall, tomorrow...
Very, Very Villegas (Columbia). Argentine Concert Pianist Enrique Villegas. whose gears shifted to jazz a long time ago when he first heard Duke Ellington, ripples through some fine old tunes in a style that should put his listeners in high. Into his giggly musical hopper Pianist Villegas topples everything from burlesque to Bartok, turns out some unique...
Your article on Ellington was a most welcome diversion from the news of the Nile and the Democratic circus in Chicago. Only one criticism: the shot of the Cotton Club shows the highness of hi-de-ho, Cab Galloway, with the chicks, and not the Duke. Of course Cab spent many moons at that bistro. But please let this not discourage you from printing a shot of Duke at the Cotton Club...
...Reader Marsh is right. Says Photographer Max Haas: "I took that picture in the Cotton Club some 25 years ago, thought it was Ellington. The picture has run in publications in the U.S. and all over the world. Until now, no questions were raised." For a picture of the Duke, celebrating his 3Qth birthday at the Cotton Club...