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Duke Ellington March 1965

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Leigh talks to Duke at the Standard Club in the Nicollet Hotel in Minneapolis where the Ellington band was playing in March of 1965. In these segments Duke talks about writing music for film including a project with Orson Welles that didn't happen, his definition of the word jazz and his thoughts about jazz freedom. We have more segments which should be uploaded soon as part 2.

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Mercer Kennedy Ellington (March 11, 1919 – February 8, 1996) was an American musician, composer, and arranger. His father was Duke Ellington, whose band Mercer led for 20 years after his father's death.

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