🎹 Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Alabamy Home - Big Band Jazz Legend, Django

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- 'Alabamy Home.' [Photo, Django Reinhardt, left, seated, on guitar, gypsy jazz]. - Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gleason called him "America's most important composer".

Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem.. Ellington was known for his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, as well as for his eloquence and charisma. He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington
- Ellington greatly admired Reinhardt, having been quoted saying Reinhardt was "the most creative jazz musician to originate anywhere outside the United States"...
https://clevelandhistorical.org/files/show/4986

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1. I just woke up.

Django Reinhardt and Duke Ellington together? Don’t get better than that.

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2. I know, great combo. Duke was admired worldwide for good reason. Thanks for posting.