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

Duke Ellington's Second Sacred Concert, of his original sacred music compositions, premiered at the cathedral on January 19, 1968.

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.

Billy Strayhorn was an arranger of great renown in the Duke Ellington orchestra beginning in 1938.

There are hundreds of albums dedicated to the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn by artists famous and obscure.

Duke Ellington and his longtime collaborator Billy Strayhorn both appeared on exactly half the set's 38 tracks and wrote two new pieces of music for the album: " The E and D Blues " and a four-movement musical portrait of Fitzgerald ( the only Songbook track on which Fitzgerald does not sing ).

A few examples of Steinway Artists are Daniel Barenboim, Harry Connick, Jr., Billy Joel, Evgeny Kissin, Diana Krall, Lang Lang ; and a few examples of " immortals " are Benjamin Britten, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Vladimir Horowitz, Cole Porter and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

" Margie " has been recorded by Louis Armstrong, who also covered the band's " Tiger Rag ", Ray Charles, Al Jolson, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra in 1935, the Billy Kyle Swing Club Band, Claude Hopkins, Red Nichols, Django Reinhardt, George Paxton, the Dutch Swing College Band, Fats Domino, Sidney Bechet, Don Redman, Cab Calloway, Jim Reeves, Gene Krupa, and Benny Goodman.

Billy Hughes, John Curtin, and the Governor-General of Australia Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester in Canberra, 1945 Billy Hughes in 1945 aged 83, seven years before his deathBust of Billy Hughes by sculptor Wallace Anderson located in the Prime Ministers Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens

Billy Hughes, John Curtin, and Governor-General of Australia | Governor-General Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester in Canberra, 1945

He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown, Eric Dolphy and Booker Little.

* Arrangers: Van Alexander, Ralph Burns, Toots Camarata, Benny Carter, Buck Clayton, Ray Conniff, Eddie Durham, Duke Ellington, Bill Finegan, Jerry Gray, Bob Haggart, Buster Harding, Lennie Hayton, Neal Hefti, Fletcher Henderson, Horace Henderson, Gordon Jenkins, Billy May, Jimmy Mundy, Sy Oliver, Nat Pierce, Johnny Richards, Edgar Sampson, Eddie Sauter, Billy Strayhorn

The band members were Cootie Williams ( trumpet ), Juan Tizol ( trombone ), Barney Bigard ( clarinet ), Harry Carney ( baritone sax ), Duke Ellington ( piano ), Billy Taylor ( bass ), and Sonny Greer ( drums ).

During a break in activity halfway through the recording of Black Market, Johnson opted to leave Weather Report in order to play with the Billy Cobham / George Duke Band ( which featured a young John Scofield on guitar ).

John Scofield ( born December 26, 1951, Dayton, Ohio ), often referred to as " Sco ", is an American jazz-rock guitarist and composer, who has played and collaborated with Miles Davis, Dave Liebman, Joe Henderson, Charles Mingus, Joey Defrancesco, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Pat Martino, Mavis Staples, Phil Lesh, Billy Cobham, Medeski Martin & Wood, George Duke, Jaco Pastorius, John Mayer, and many other well-known artists.

He joined the Billy Cobham / George Duke Band soon after and spent two years playing, recording and touring with them.

Other notable ( recording / touring ) project involvements are: ( 1979 ) Jeff Beck, ( 1979 ) Ron Wood's New Barbarians, ( 1981, 1983, 1990 ) Clarke / Duke Project with George Duke, ( 1984 ) with Miroslav Vitouš, ( 1989 ) Animal Logic with Stewart Copeland, ( 1993 – 94 ), A group with Larry Carlton, Billy Cobham, Najee & Deron Johnson, ( 1995 ) The Rite of Strings with Jean-Luc Ponty and Al Di Meola and ( 1999 ) Vertu ’ with Lenny White and Richie Kotzen.

Dutch's old military buddy, now working for the CIA, George Dillon ( Carl Weathers ), steps in as a liaison and joins the team: Mac Eliot ( Bill Duke ), Blain Cooper ( Jesse Ventura ), Billy Sole ( Sonny Landham ), Jorge " Poncho " Ramirez ( Richard Chaves ), and Rick Hawkins ( Shane Black ).

Duke asked about the characteristics of the suits and Billy said, " They fit like a glove ," so Duke came up with the name Body Glove.

The swing era lasted until the mid-1940s, and produced popular tunes such as Duke Ellington's " Cotton Tail " ( 1940 ) and Billy Strayhorn's " Take the ' A ' Train " ( 1941 ).

Following her 1993 performance at a tribute to the musical legacy of her good friend Billy Strayhorn ( Duke Ellington's longtime collaborator ), she decided to record an album composed largely of Strayhorn's and Ellington's songs the following year, We'll Be Together Again.

Big bands such as those of Duke Ellington ( at the very beginning of his career ), Bennie Moten, and Count Basie performed head arrangements ( ibid ).

" Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra " grew to a ten-piece organization ; they developed their own sound by displaying the non-traditional expression of Ellington ’ s arrangements, the street rhythms of Harlem, and the exotic-sounding trombone growls and wah-wahs, high-squealing trumpets, and sultry saxophone blues licks of the band members.

Well dressing was celebrated in only one or two villages in Derbyshire by the 19th century, and in Buxton it wasn't introduced until 1840, " to commemorate the beneficence of the Duke of Devonshire who, at his own expense, made arrangements for supplying the Upper Town, which had been much inconvenienced by the distance to St Anne's well on the Wye, with a fountain of excellent water within easy reach of all ".

( 1978 ) with a quartet that included pianist Oscar Peterson, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Ray Brown, and drummer Louis Bellson ; two Duke Ellington Songbook albums ( 1979 ); Send In The Clowns ( 1981 ) with the Count Basie orchestra playing arrangements primarily by Sammy Nestico ; and Crazy and Mixed Up ( 1982 ), another quartet album featuring Sir Roland Hanna, piano, Joe Pass, guitar, Andy Simpkins, bass, and Harold Jones, drums.

While French Huguenots had derisively bestowed the name Triumvirate on the alliance formed in 1561 between Catholic Francis, Duke of Guise, Anne de Montmorency, and Jacques Dalbon, Seigneur de Saint Andre during the French Wars of Religion, in later years the term would be used to describe other arrangements within France.

* In Alexandre Dumas's The Queen's Necklace, the Duke of Richelieu and his butler discuss the arrangements to get one special bottle of Tokaji, which they expect to please the king Gustav III of Sweden at a dinner the Duke is going to host.

His arrangements were much in demand and were featured on recordings by Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, and Tommy Dorsey.

But he was best known for his writing, especially his arrangements for big bands, which at their best captured the spirit of past masters such as Duke Ellington and Count Basie while remaining thoroughly contemporary.

He had recommended the conclusion of arrangements with Sher Ali which, as has since been admitted, would have prevented the Second Afghan War ; but his policy was overruled by the Duke of Argyll, then Secretary of State for India.

The details of the peace arrangements are unknown, but Prudentius of Troyes uses the title " duke " ( dux ) for the first time in this context and this may indicate that Nominoe was created Duke of the Bretons in return for recognising Charles ' lordship.

His arrangements and compositions are often influenced by composers like Nelson Riddle and Duke Ellington and, as such, include many moving lines to fill in the spaces, e. g. walking basslines, syncopated chordal ' stabs ' ( to emulate horn sections ), and complex jazz harmony.

For unknown reasons, the content of the arrangements was beneficial only to the Duke of Greater Poland, who not only received the permission to retain Odonic's district ( which included parts of Kalisz, who under the agreement of 1206, was returned to Silesia ), but also obtain the district of Lubusz ( captured in 1209 by the Margrave of Lusatia Conrad II but recovered by Henry I the Bearded one year later ) during his lifetime.

Although he only held the household office of Master of the Horse, with responsibility for overseeing the King's travel arrangements, Buckingham was a long and close associate of King Charles II, having been practically raised together since children, during the close association of their fathers, Charles I and the first Duke of Buckingham, a relationship they consciously compared themselves to in adulthood, and might have replicated had the younger Buckingham possessed the skills of his father.

He has listed further influence from The Specials and Roxy Music, as well as from Fletcher Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford and Duke Ellington on his composing and arrangements.

His hymn-like ballad " To You " was performed by the Basie band combined with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in their only recording together, and the recording Dance Along With Basie contains nearly an entire album of Jones ’ uncredited arrangements of standard tunes.

In 1936, " Flower Decoration " created the flower arrangements for the royal weddings of the Duke of Gloucester to Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott and the more private wedding of Duke and Duchess of Windsor.