Duke Ellington's and Billy Strayhorn's arrangements for the Duke Ellington big band were usually new compositions, and some of Eddie Sauter's arrangements for the Benny Goodman band and Artie Shaw's arrangements for his own band were new compositions as well.

They dedicated an acoustic version of Duke Ellington's " Jump for Joy " to him, a song they never performed at any other time of their career.

Duke Ellington's big band had a rhythm section that included a jazz guitarist, a double bass player, and a drummer ( not visible ).

Evans had been the arranger for the Claude Thornhill orchestra, and it was the sound of this group, as well as Duke Ellington's example, that suggested the creation of an unusual line-up: a nonet including a French horn and a tuba ( this accounts for the " tuba band " moniker that was to be associated with the combo ).

For his part, Davis was fully aware of the importance of the project, which he pursued to the point of turning down a job with Duke Ellington's orchestra.

Comping, a technique for accompanying jazz vocalists on piano, was exemplified by Duke Ellington's technique.

The halftime show was a tribute to American jazz composer, pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington, also featuring the Grambling State University Band along with Ellington's son Mercer.

* " Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue ", one of Duke Ellington's longer-form compositions

The late 1950s also saw Ella Fitzgerald record her Duke Ellington Songbook with Ellington and his orchestra — a recognition that Ellington's songs had now become part of the cultural canon known as the ' Great American Songbook '.

Ellington's eldest grandson Edward Kennedy Ellington II also is a musician and maintains a small salaried band known as the Duke Ellington Legacy, which frequently comprises the core of the big band operated by The Duke Ellington Center for the Arts.

Duke Ellington's work has come to be recognized as a cornerstone of American culture and heritage.

* Dave Brubeck dedicated " The Duke " ( 1954 ) to Ellington and it became a standard covered by others, both during Ellington's lifetime ( such as by Miles Davis on Miles Ahead, 1957 ) and posthumously ( such as George Shearing on I Hear a Rhapsody: Live at the Blue Note, 1992 ).

* Joe Jackson interpreted Ellington's work on The Duke ( 2012 ) in new arrangements and with collaborations from Iggy Pop, Sharon Jones and Steve Vai.

On October 26, 1927 Duke Ellington's Orchestra recorded " Creole Love Call " featuring Adelaide Hall singing wordlessly.

* Isfahan ( song ), a Billy Strayhorn composition on Duke Ellington's The Far East Suite

Discouraged by the obvious talents of Sonny Greer, who also lived in Red Bank and became Duke Ellington's drummer in 1919, Basie at age 15 switched to piano exclusively.

Early after his arrival, he bumped into Sonny Greer, who was by then the drummer for the Washingtonians, Duke Ellington's early band.

The following year, in 1929 Basie became the pianist with the Bennie Moten band based in Kansas City, inspired by Moten's ambition to raise his band to the level of Duke Ellington's or Fletcher Henderson's.

On January 16, 1938, the Benny Goodman Orchestra gave a sold-out swing and jazz concert that also featured, among other guest performers, Count Basie and members of Duke Ellington's orchestra.

In 1927 he joined Duke Ellington's band in New York, where he stayed until 1942.

A tighter and more traditional recording than previous releases, the record featured a more prominent role for Shorter, a strong element of bebop and a nod to jazz's golden age via a high-speed cover of Duke Ellington's " Rockin ' in Rhythm " ( showing off Zawinul's pioneering and ever-increasing ability to create synthetic big-band sounds on his synthesizers ).

She was also a guest artist in the Smithsonian Institution production of Duke Ellington's Great Ladies of Song.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

The Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne | Duke of Newcastle with whom Pitt formed an Second Newcastle Ministry | unlikely political partnership from 1757.

) – Second Anglo-Dutch War: English naval victory at the Battle of Lowestoft under James Stuart, Duke of York.

In 1147 he became Duke of Swabia, and shortly afterwards made his first trip to the East, accompanying his uncle, the German king Conrad III, on the Second Crusade.

In " A Midsummer Night's Dream ", Shakespeare casually bestowed upon Theseus-a semi-legendary character, dated to the misty time of the Second Millenium BC-the title of " Duke of Athens ", which derives from the Latin conquest the Byzantine Empire in the 13th Century AD ...

* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, " Stafford, Henry, Second Duke of Buckingham ," by C. S. L. Davies.

As a result, the Second Treaty of Vienna on 22 July 1731 officially recognised the young Infante Charles as Duke of Parma and Piacenza.

In 1953, the Second Duke of Westminster sold the part of the Grosvenor estate on which Pimlico is built.

At the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War ( 1665 – 67 ), Rupert was appointed as one of the three squadron commanders of the English fleet, under the overall command of the Duke of York, taking the as his flagship.

In 1665, at the age of 16, Monmouth served in the English fleet under his uncle the Duke of York in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.

The Duke of Augustenborg, a minor scion from another cadet line of the House of Oldenburg, claimed the Duchies, and soon the German Confederation, led by Prussia and Austria, went to the Second Schleswig War with Denmark, quickly defeating it in 1864 and forcing it to cede the duchies.

The American actor and director Norman Lloyd portrayed the Second Duke of Buckingham in the 1957 episode " The Trial of Colonel Blood " of NBC's anthology series, The Joseph Cotten Show.

World Migrations in the Second Millennium, Duke University Press, 2002

It was replaced by the Second Newcastle Ministry headed by the Duke of Newcastle and including Pitt, Henry Fox and the Duke of Bedford.

* Tucker, M. J., The Life of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey and Second Duke of Norfolk, 1443 – 1524, 1964.

Those currently holding this appointment are Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Kent ; Admiral of the Fleet HRH The Prince of Wales ; Captain Mark Phillips, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards ; Rear Admiral HRH The Duke of York ; Second Lieutenant HRH The Earl of Wessex and Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence.

The Duke of Kent graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on 29 July 1955 as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys, the beginning of a military career that would last over 20 years.

Before starting on his second expedition he had published a historical romance, The History of Robert, Second Duke of Normandy, surnamed Robert the Devil ; and he left behind him for publication Catharos Diogenes in his Singularity, a discourse on the immorality of Athens ( London ).

This arrangement was confirmed by the 1867 Treaty of London, known as the ' Second Treaty of London ' in analogy to the 1839 treaty, and lasted until the death of King-Grand Duke William III 23 November 1890.

The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution, Second French Revolution or in French, saw the overthrow of King Charles X, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, who himself, after 18 precarious years on the throne, would in turn be overthrown.

It was succeeded by the Second Portland Ministry, headed by William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland.