Topic: Duke Ellington
AP News | 2009-04-29 17:06:26
<div id="subtitle">Tony Bennett leaves his painting of friend, jazz great Duke Ellington with Smithsonian</div><div><p>Tony Bennett donated a watercolor he made of longtime friend Duke Ellington to a Smithsonian museum on Wednesday, the 110th anniversary of the jazz great's birth.</p><p> ...
AP News | 2009-04-29 16:39:45
A watercolor painting by singer Tony Bennett, of Duke Ellington, is hung at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, on Wednesday, April 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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AFP Global Edition | 2009-04-04 20:01:01
<div><p>It was an unlikely journey but Duke Ellington's "Take the 'A' train" rang out in Baghdad's "Green Zone" on Saturday, almost 50 years after the jazz legend himself played in the Iraqi capital.</p><p>This time it was New York musician Alvin Atkinson and the "Sound Merchants ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-02-24 19:00:31
<div><p>Jazz icon Duke Ellington has become the first African American to appear solo on a US coin intended for everyday use, officials at the US Mint said Tuesday after a celebration to mark the quarter-dollar's release.</p><p>"He's the first African American to feature solo and the ...
