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Between 19, Ellington was at his most creative, composing a series of pieces that highlighted the distinct musical personalities of his loyal sidemen. In 1933 he led his 14-piece band on its first tour of England and Europe, and for the next 40 years he maintained a near-constant touring schedule, broken only by perennial residencies at clubs in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, and Paris.
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In 1930 he performed with his orchestra in the Amos and Andy movie, Check and Double Check, the first of many such movie appearances. By this time, through radio broadcasts and many recordings for U.S., English, and French labels, he was internationally renowned as the foremost jazz composer and bandleader. In December 1927 the Duke Ellington Orchestra made its decisive opening at the Cotton Club, the showplace of Harlem speakeasies his composing flourished there and he remained in residency until 1932. He also began to attract significant sidemen to his band, including such colorful, blues-oriented players as Johnny Hodges and Cootie Williams they helped form Ellington's signature style and propel his output as a composer. In 1925 he wrote the score for the Chocolate Kiddies, a revue that ran for two years in Germany. In 1923 he and hometown associates Sonny Greer and Otto Hardwick moved to New York City and began working as "the Washingtonians." Ellington assumed leadership of the ensemble, which in 1924 made its first recordings and began a three-year residency at a Broadway speakeasy. He first established his name in Washington by supplying bands for parties and dances and as a sideman in others' bands. He began subbing for ragtime pianist Lester Dishman at a Washington cafe in 1914, and while there he wrote his first composition, "Soda Fountain Rag." He won a poster design contest sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1917 this prompted him to leave high school before graduation to operate his own sign-painting business, but a year later he declined a scholarship from the Pratt Institute (Brooklyn) and devoted himself exclusively to music. Navy, he studied piano and painting from age six and acquired his nickname from a boyhood friend. Raised in a moderately well-to-do family, his father being a White House butler and later a blueprint-maker for the U.S. Ellington, (Edward Kennedy) Duke(1899–1974) composer, orchestra conductor, jazz musician born in Washington, D.C. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia™ Copyright © 2013, Columbia University Press.
Dance, The World of Duke Ellington (1970) H. Dance, Duke Ellington in Person (1978) biographies by B. Tucker, ed., The Duke Ellington Reader (1993) M. See his memoir, Music Is My Mistress (1973) M. In 1969 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Ellington made many tours of Europe, appeared in numerous jazz festivals and several films, and made hundreds of recordings. Among his best-known short works are "Mood Indigo," "Solitude," and "Sophisticated Lady." He also wrote jazz works of complex orchestration and ambitious scope for concert presentation, notably Creole Rhapsody (1932), Black, Brown and Beige (1943), Liberian Suite (1947), Harlem (1951), and Night Creatures (1955), and composed religious music, including three sacred concerts (1965, 1968, and 1973). Many instrumental virtuosos worked closely with Ellington for long periods of time. He achieved a fine unity of style, based in blues, but elegant and tonal, and made many innovations in the jazz idiom. Click the link for more information., and others written by Ellington and other members of his band (but often not credited to them). Classically trained, he was drawn to jazz, and early in his career composed a number of songs. (William Thomas Strayhorn), 1915–67, African-American jazz composer, arranger, lyricist, and pianist, b. Ellington's orchestra played compositions and arrangements, some by hime alone, many by or in collaboration with Billy Strayhorn Strayhorn, Billy By 1918 he had formed a band, and after appearances in nightclubs in Harlem he became one of the most famous figures in American jazz.
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Ellington made his first professional appearance as a jazz pianist in 1916. Ellington, Duke (Edward Kennedy Ellington), 1899–1974, American jazz musician and composer, b.