For over twenty-three years, Duke, christened Edward Kennedy Ellington, has spent his days and nights on trains rattling across the continent with his band on an endless sequence of one-night ...

National Museum of African American History and Culture Letter to the Musicians' Protective Association from Duke Ellington National Museum of American History Bust of Duke Ellington National Museum ...

They include: -- Publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1863 -- Bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington in 1899 -- Japanese Emperor Hirohito in 1901 -- Actor Celeste Holm in 1917 ...

In the mid 1950s, Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was washed up. His musicians in disarray, his own star waning, his band had been reduced to playing obscure and tawdry gigs for cash - a far ...