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1. The Duke Ellington Orchestra was the "house" orchestra for a number of years followed by Cab Calloway. (Web site)
2. The Duke Ellington Orchestra is an integral link to jazz's early days. (Web site)

Ray Nance

1. Ray Nance was an integral part of the Duke Ellington orchestra from 1940 to 1963 although he took a break in the early ‘40s to lead his own groups. (Web site)

Rex Stewart

1. His plunger mute style was passed down in the Ellington orchestra to Cootie Wlilliams, Ray Nance and Rex Stewart. (Web site)

Death

1. He recorded regularly until his death, and when Duke Ellington became ill at the end of his life, filled the piano chair in the Ellington Orchestra. (Web site)

Feature Film

1. The Ellington Orchestra made another feature film, Murder at the Vanities, in the spring of 1934. (Web site)

Writing Songs

1. By 1939 Strayhorn was writing songs, creating arrangements, and sometimes playing piano for the Ellington orchestra. (Web site)

Unique Sound

1. His unique sound became the identifying voice of the Ellington orchestra.

Duke

1. He felt he had arrived as a saxophonist when he was asked to join the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Mercer Ellington. (Web site)
2. Hines led his big band until 1948, taking time out to front the Duke Ellington orchestra in 1944 while Duke was ill, but by then the big-band era was over. (Web site)
3. His mother plays the piano, and he remembers being inspired to take up the bass after watching the Duke Ellington Orchestra perform on television. (Web site)

Hodges

1. With the return of Brown, Hodges and Williams, the Ellington Orchestra of the 1960s, according to Schuller, "regained some if its earlier glory. (Web site)

Jazz

1. This ability to adapt and grow with the times kept the Ellington Orchestra a major force in Jazz up until Duke's death in the 1970s. (Web site)
2. Until Chaloff the only prominent baritone player in jazz was Harry Carney of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

Hot Jazz

1. Unlike many of their contemporaries, the Ellington Orchestra was able to make the change from the Hot Jazz of the 1920s to the Swing music of the 1930s. (Web site)

Billy Taylor

1. Blanton shared the bass duties with Billy Taylor until Taylor left the Ellington orchestra in January 1940. (Web site)

Last 25 Years

1. In 1943, Hamilton replaced Barney Bigard in the Ellington orchestra, a gig that would last 25 years.

Cotton Club

1. The Ellington orchestra remained at the Cotton Club, with periodic interruptions, until early February 1931. (Web site)
2. The Duke Ellington Orchestra made its decisive opening at the Cotton Club (Dec 1927), the showplace of Harlem speakeasies, remaining in residency until 1932.

Ellington

1. In 1943 he replaced Barney Bigard in the Duke Ellington orchestra, and stayed with Ellington until 1968. (Web site)

Wellman Braud

1. Wellman Braud, bass player with the Duke Ellington orchestra, once called Brown "the greatest of all" bass players. (Web site)

Play

1. Notable jazz musicians who play the B flat tenor valve trombone include Bob Brookmeyer, Juan Tizol of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and Bob Enevoldsen. (Web site)

Bandstand

1. This is a posed publicity photo from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer of the Ellington orchestra on a bandstand.

Sears

1. After leaving the Ellington Orchestra, Sears became a leading member of the Johnny Hodges Band, which enjoyed success in the early 1950s.
2. The favorable publicity from that tour helped Sears get two subsequent gigs, first with Lionel Hampton's band and then with the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

Johnny Hodges

1. Silken, soulful, seductive, the alto saxophone of Johnny Hodges provided the signature sound of the Duke Ellington orchestra for nearly forty years.

Music

1. Certain members of the Ellington orchestra claimed that their contribution to the music was not duly credited in all cases. (Web site)

Duke Ellington Orchestra

1. The Duke Ellington Orchestra brings the music of Duke to new generations of music listeners. (Web site)
2. Cornetists such as Bubber Miley and Rex Stewart contributed substantially to the Duke Ellington Orchestra 's early sound. (Web site)
3. This category is for members (including singers) of the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Duke Ellington.

Ellington Orchestra

1. Mercer Ellington -- (1919–1996) led The Ellington Orchestra intermittently as a "ghost band," after his father's death.
2. Wellman Braud continued to work with the Ellington Orchestra for the first half of the 1930s until Ellington brought in a second bassist to play beside him.
3. His playing became the identifying voice of the Ellington orchestra. (Web site)

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2. Father's Death
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