Fuck Yeah Duke Ellington

A Tumblr of the Duke.

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1951 - Johnny Hodges All Stars from Duke Ellington's Band including Al Sears, Sonny Greer, Leroy Lovett, Lawrence Brown, Emmet Berry, Joe Benjamin - Club Juana - Detroit

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Sarah Vaughan takes to the piano with Duke Ellington and Billy Eckstine after a Christmas concert in 1951.

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Django Reinhardt and Duke Ellington New York, c Nov 1946

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Jazz Magazine N°44 (France) - Duke Ellington & Mahalia Jackson - Janvier 1959

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Duke Ellington, April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974.

With Billy Strayhorn at the Chateau Marmont in 1960. Photo by Gordon Parks.

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Duke Ellington, Take the A Train

from the film Reveille with Beverly (1943)

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Jazz Magazine N°139 (France) - Duke Ellington - Février 1967

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Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach

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Duke Ellington rehearses for a 1973 concert in London’s Westminster Abbey (Getty Images)

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“Billy Strayhorn was my right arm, my left arm, all the eyes in the back of my head, my brain waves in his head, and his in mine.” - Duke Ellington

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Duke Ellington by Irving Penn, 1948.

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Russian jazz musician Yuri Vikharieff thanks Duke Ellington for coming to Leningrad, 1971 Photograph by Pierre Boulat

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Duke Ellington,  On the Fringe of the Jungle

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Duke Ellington play Beatles hits on the Ed Sullivan show, 1970.

0:15 She Love's You 0:41 All My Loving 1:08 Eleanor Rigby 1:50 She's Leaving Home 2:15 Norwegian Wood 2:52 Ticket To Ride

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JC Higginbotham, Gowan Brad, Juan Tizol, Lipps Page, Rex Stewart, Harry Lim & Duke Ellington