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The Duke Ellington Fellowship Program is a community-based organization which sponsors artists mentoring and performing with Yale University students and young musicians from the New Haven public school system.


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Duke Ellington Fellowship Program

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The Duke Ellington Fellowship Program is a community-based organization which sponsors artists mentoring and performing with Yale University students...

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Duke Ellington School of the Arts

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The Duke Ellington School of the Arts (established 1974) is a high school located at 35th Street and R Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., and dedicated...

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Willie Ruff

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had a large repertoire. Ruff was founding Director of the Duke Ellington Fellowship Program at Yale, a community-based organization sponsoring artists...

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Duke Ellington

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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from...

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Walter Nicks

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Side Story (1968). He danced in a 1969 concert of Duke Ellington's sacred music with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at Gustaf Vasa Church in Stockholm, which...

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Mary Lou Williams

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records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious...

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Abdullah Ibrahim

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his music particularly reflects the influence of Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington. He is known especially for "Mannenberg", a jazz piece that became a...

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Mercer Cook

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Cook family lived across the street from the legendary jazz musician Duke Ellington. Cook attended Dunbar High School in Washington D.C., a predominantly...

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Chico Hamilton

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Lionel Hampton, Slim & Slam, T-Bone Walker, Lester Young, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnet, Billy Eckstine, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Billie...

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Terry Teachout

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notable books" of 2010. In 2013, Teachout's biography Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington was published. Duke was longlisted for the National Book Awards nonfiction...

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Charles Mingus

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spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Max Roach, and Eric Dolphy. Mingus's work ranged from...

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Phil Ramone

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Emmy Award in 1973 as the sound mixer for "Duke Ellington...We Love You Madly", a tribute to Duke Ellington broadcast on CBS. 1997 – American Eagle Award...

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Anthony Branker

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Strayhorn, another member of the Copasetics, and was mentioned in Duke Ellington's autobiography, Music is My Mistress. Anthony Branker's cousin, Nicholas...

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Kathryn Kish Sklar

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Berkshire Book Prize 1974, Berkshire Book Prize Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Ellington, Barbara Reeves; Shemo, Connie, eds. (2010). Competing Kingdoms: Women...

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Mulatu Astatke

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recordings by Mahmoud Ahmed, and appearing as a special guest with Duke Ellington and his band during a tour of Ethiopia in 1973. Mulatu recorded Mulatu...

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Alvin Ailey

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Henderson, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Pigmeat Markham, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington. In 1946 he had his first experience with concert dance, awakening an...

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Randy Weston

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his ancestral African connection. Weston's piano style owed much to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, whom he cited in a 2018 video as among pianists...

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Reginald McLaughlin

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pioneers of tap dance. As a principal tap dancer he was seen in two Duke Ellington musicals: Jump for Joy and Beggar's Holiday. In the theatre version...

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Institute of Jazz Studies

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Al "Jazzbo" Collins Harold Courlander Stuart Davis Roger Pryor Dodge Duke Ellington Ralph Ellison Nesuhi Ertegün Leonard Feather Norman Granz Bill Grauer...

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Adams, John James Audubon, Sissela Bok, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Duke Ellington, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Joseph Henry, Washington Irving, Thomas Jefferson...

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Dave Brubeck

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uncomfortable with Time magazine featuring him on the cover before Duke Ellington. Brubeck had Swiss ancestry (the family surname was originally Brodbeck)...

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