Classic Mood Experience The best masterpieces ever recorded in the music history. Join our Youtube: goo.gl/8AOGaN Join our Facebook: goo.gl/5oL723 Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 -- May 24, 1974) was a USA composer, pianist and bandleader of jazz-orchestras. His career spanned over 50 years, leading his orchestra from 1923 until death. Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington himself embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a "liberating principle," and referred his music to the more general category of "American Music," rather than to a musical genre such as "jazz." Born in Washington, D.C., he was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onwards, and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club. In the 1930s they toured in Europe. FROM WIKIPEDIA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington

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