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...great accolade to you for Peter Kurd's portrait of Duke Ellington on your Aug. 20 cover. The accompanying article was a great tribute to a fine gentleman, musician and composer. He will be remembered as one of the alltime greats of jazz music in America...
...have more by Peter Hurd. His interpretation of Ellington is excellent...
...Ellington had contributed something valuable to all mankind-like George Washington Carver-your selection would have been unassailable. But you have a great responsibility to the vast readership you reach. Just because Ellington and Armstrong and our rock 'n' roll nitwits have a following among people who are moved by the noises of blah-blah and nothingness, there is no reason why you should publicize their worthless causes...
Your candid and informative Aug. 20 sketch of Duke Ellington is heartening to many talented and aspiring Americans...
...Hibbler, 41, has been a professional singer for 20 years, including an eight-year stretch as vocalist with Duke Ellington, but it is only in the past year that he has caused mass ecstasy. He has a thick, almost syrupy voice with both a hint of maudlin sentimentality and a dash of satirical humor. He is a Negro and has been blind from birth. Al's blacksmith father sent him to the Arkansas School for the Blind in Little Rock, where he sang soprano until he was 17. Long before he graduated, in 1936, he had memorized every nuance...