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Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, D.Mus., jazz musician...
...Guest Star Dizzy Gillespie, something of a master blender himself, had to take notice. The loudspeakers could not quite conceal the virtuosity of the young players and their apparent ability to make music out of anything and everything. Such a meeting of diverse idioms seemed to bear out Duke Ellington's famous prediction about the pop scene. "Soon," said the Duke, "it'll all be just music; you won't have to say whether it's jazz or not, just whether you like...
...escape from the endless round of TV and jingle jobs through which its individual members actually make a living. In the ensuing years, playing the Vanguard on Monday nights, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis group has reached a level of perfection and invention now matched only by the Duke Ellington band...
Williams has sung gospel since her childhood, and her many tours with the Ward Singers and Duke Ellington have won her a world-wide reputation. As the star of "Black Nativity." she also introduced the first Jazz Mass at the Antibes Jazz Festival...
Died. Johnny Hodges, 63, saxophonist in Duke Ellington's band and a jazz great for more than 40 years; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...