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Duke Ellington 2
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One of Duke’s earliest compositions was the “Soda Fountain Rag”, which he played so many different ways, it was thought that it was several compositions (Gammond, 69).
In retrospect, Duke Ellington’s formal music career could be split up into three distinct,masterful periods ....
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....owcase his individual members in “miniature
masterpieces, three-minute concertos that displayed a single soloist against the backdrop of a tightly-knit ensemble” (Holmes). Then in 1943, Duke began to hold annual concerts in Carnegie Hall, where he would showcase his longer, “concert-length” compositions(Holmes). The most notable of these was Brown, Black and Beige. In 1939, Duke acquired a musician that would be of epochal proportions- Billy Strayhorn. Strayhorn would.... |
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