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...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...
...festival closed Sunday with Duke Ellington, a prince, and Aretha Franklin, the queen of soul, in "Jazz and Soul on the Island." This concert was a conscious effort on the part of the producers to bring about a greater affinity between the two great black musical forms. It was a natural conclusion to a festival marked by its concern with its audience, and above all, with its concern for jazz musicians and their music...
George Balanchine, L.H.D., choreographer. A master of motion and design. Bruce Catton, L.H.D., historian. Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, D.M., musician. Elisabeth Luce Moore, LL.D., civic and educational leader...
...Star Swing Festival. Dynamite jazz and swing from some of the better musicians alive: Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Earl Hines and Dizzy Gillespie. Taped last October at Philharmonic Hall. CH.4. 10 p.m. Color...
...musicians were of many Black musical persuasions, yet their different sounds have one commonality--rhythm, the gift from Africa. Rhythm is existence, the beating of a heart, the in-and ex-hale of breath. Rhythm is life. It has to be, for as Duke Ellington tells us, "a drum is a woman...