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"There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind."

~ Duke Ellington

Photo by Associated Booking via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

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Did you know that April 29 is Duke Ellington Day? Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was born on April 29, 1899. 

Amy Morizono Eto grew up listening to his music and learned the dances of the day from some of the customers at her dad’s grocery store in Oakland. Among the essential items packed in her suitcase when her family was removed to Tanforan in 1941 was her collection of the Duke’s records.

In Topaz she began teaching her younger brother to dance. Soon other bored teenagers started coming to the barrack apartment where Amy worked as an assistant to the block manager. Amy taught all of them to dance to the music of Duke Ellington.

People all over the world loved and admired Duke Ellington and his music–perhaps none more so than the Topaz teenagers who found brief respite from incarceration in “Dancing to Duke.” Read Amy’s story on our website.

The Topaz Stories Team

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Duke Ellington piano solo recital at Chateau De Goutelas. February 25, 1966. Goutelas-en-Forez, France. Ellington performed this piano recital on occasion of the inauguration of the Goutelas-en-Forez castle, recently restored.

“There are 50 children with torches on either side of the road leading up to the chateau,” Ellington wrote in Music Is My Mistress. “The wind is so gusty that some burn their hands, but they say it does not matter, and the torches stay alight until we reach the portal of the majestic building … the left wing has been entirely reconstructed, and it is ready for me to inaugurate this very night. In the salle de musique is the most beautiful piano I have ever seen or heard, a nine-foot Steinway concert grand which has been specially brought there for my performance. Despite the severe cold, the doors remain open throughout, and the people, crowded inside, remain silent and attentive.”

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Duke Ellington, taken during the Newport Jazz

Festival, July 1955.

Photo: Richard Avedon

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Today In History Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, legendary composer and bandleader, was born in Washington, DC, on this date April 29, 1899. Ellington is famous for his songs: “Take the A Train,” “Mood Indigo,” and “I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good” among others. Duke Ellington was commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp on this date in 1986. CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #staywoke #dukeellington #jazz #history #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc7uOTrL7P8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Patsy, Duke, and Buchanan Hall

Patsy, Duke, and Buchanan Hall

How could you not possibly like a local place, where both Patsy Cline and Duke Ellington have performed in the past? Buchanan Hall, a small venue just down the road in Upperville, VA, hosted both of those greats during it’s storied past. The best part? The Hall continues as a focus for music and good times today with their weekly Farmers Market. Buchanan Hall has existed since the late 1920s,…

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Listen to 3 tracks from Duke Ellington’s ‘Far East Suite’ LP (RCA, LSA 3063 [LSP 3782] TPRS 9145, UK, 1972, originally released in 1967).

It’s touching 33.5° Celsius in the jazz lounge. That’s nearly 93° to you Fahrenheit Philistines, but whichever way you look at it, that’s hot. So, I fancy some hot jazz and here it is in the shape of Duke Ellington’s late 1966 recording ‘Far East Suite’. It’s a bit of a misnomer to be truthful as the Duke’s inspiration for this record began back in the Autumn on 1963 when he and his orchestra embarked on a US State Department tour that took in Ankara, Amman, Damascus, New Delhi, Madras and Bombay, as well as Terhan, Kabul and Sri Lanka. They didn’t actually reach the real ‘far east’ until a separate tour to Japan later the following year but hey, record companies just love to bundle things up and keep it simple for us so we’re left with a far east suite inspired by the scales, melodies and rhythms of The Levant, The Middle East, Persia and the Indian sub-continent.

Introducing the Duke, you’ll hear the whisper of Miles Davis followed by Ravi Shankar counting the orchestra in, but probably not in the same time signature that they’re playing in. All the skullduggery is necessary as the tumblr fuzz are getting pretty hot at spotting copyrighted material. Talking of hot, this isn’t really ‘hot jazz’ at all- strictly speaking, that term belongs to the New Orleans sound from the first two decades of the 20th Century, you know, cornets, clarinets and banjos. Yes, jazz constantly evolves, it’s always going somewhere, and it’s been places too, but it can still be extremely irritating. Banjos? Nope. The Duke? Yes indeed. Sizzling.