Ellington at Newport is a 1956 live jazz album by Duke Ellington and his band of their 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, a concert which revitalized...
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appearance by Ellington and his orchestra at the Newport Jazz Festival in July 1956 led to a major revival and regular world tours. Ellington recorded for...
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Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington and the Buck Clayton All-Stars at Newport Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2023-02-12 Duke Ellington - Ellington...
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original release of Ellington at Newport. Columbia Records CL 934. Schaap, Phil (February 1999). Liner notes to Ellington at Newport (Complete). Columbia...
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Paul Gonsalves (category Duke Ellington Orchestra members)
association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo...
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jazz standard that was composed by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington and first performed by Ellington in 1936. Irving Mills wrote lyrics, but they are rarely...
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Mercer Kennedy Ellington (March 11, 1919 – February 8, 1996) was an American musician, composer, and arranger. His father was Duke Ellington, whose band...
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Newport 1958 is a 1958 album by Duke Ellington, recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival of that year and later in the Columbia recording studio. It was...
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Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue (category Compositions by Duke Ellington)
opposite sides of a 78 rpm record. The 1956 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival revitalized Ellington's career, making newspaper headlines when seated audience...
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Holiday at Newport, 1958 Ellington at Newport, a 1956 album by Duke Ellington Herbie Mann Live at Newport, a 1963 album by Herbie Mann Live at Newport (Christian...
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