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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 23, 1973 | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Steve Whitehouse, | Title: Newport, New York | 7/13/1973 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Round 1 | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 4/26/1973 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Cynthia Bellamy, | Title: Jazz Came Home | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

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