Happy Birthday To A True American Legend

good call, RMTex!! ellington was amazing.

 

Thanks RMT... What's in my CD Player now? The Blanton-Webster Years cds...

 

thanks Duke..... for all the great tunes

 

Edward Kennedy Ellington

Born Apr 29, 1899 in Washington, D.C.
Died May 24, 1974 in New York, NY

Duke Ellington was the most important composer in the history of jazz as well as being a bandleader who held his large group together continuously for almost 50 years. The two aspects of his career were related; Ellington used his band as a musical laboratory for his new compositions and shaped his writing specifically to showcase the talents of his bandmembers, many of whom remained with him for long periods. Ellington also wrote film scores and stage musicals, and several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. In addition to touring year in and year out, he recorded extensively, resulting in a gigantic body of work that was still being assessed a quarter century after his death.

To the true Duke!

 

RMTex,

You don't know a lot about politics,



but B-ball and Music...spot on !

 

My birthday in two hours....yeah...18....I cant wait all the p*rn,ciggarettes, voting and lottery tickkets i want...well it will probly only be the last two but hey

 

thanks dude, great call.

He invented one of my favourite jazz-musicians to my table:

Johnny Hodges !!!!

yess baby.

 

"Mood?"

"Indigo."