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Duke Ellington
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Wire of a family of the ' small bourgeosy of color ', Edward Kennedy Ellington, known as Duke, fact of the studies of decorative art. It will gain even a contest organized by Association for the promotion of the coloured persons. But it is towards the music and the piano that Duke is turned. It is successively engaged by several orchestras before assembling its own formation, ' The Duke' S serenaders ', is renamed ' The washingtonians ', in the honor of its birthplace. Head of orchestra appointed of the ' Knitting machine club' of Harlem of 1925 to 1931, his work of musical creation from now on comparable, and is compared, with that of the type-setters of classical music. From 1935 and during fifty years, Duke Ellinton will traverse the whole world, will tell the history of its people thanks to permanent musical rérérences with the afro-American culture, and will always obtain same success. Pieces, tel' Black, brown and beige ', or celebrates it ' It don' T mean has thing ', do of this type-setter one of the largest musicians of jazz but also, thanks to its popular rates/rhythms, one of the most appreciated by general public. |
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