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

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

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.

Other key traditional pop and jazz ballads include: " Body and Soul " by Johnny Green ; " Misty " by Erroll Garner ; " The Man I Love " by George Gershwin ; " My Funny Valentine " by Rodgers and Hart, " God Bless the Child " by Billie Holiday, " Ev ' ry Time We Say Goodbye " by Cole Porter, the instrumental ballad " Naima " by John Coltrane, " In a Sentimental Mood " by Duke Ellington and " Always " by Irving Berlin.

In high school he was given his first oil paints and learned about his aunt Bessye Bearden's art salons, which stars like Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes attended.

He also designed album covers for artists such as Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins.

Brubeck personally found this accolade embarrassing since he considered Duke Ellington more deserving of it and was convinced that himself being Caucasian as opposed to Ellington being African American was a factor for why he was favored.

Day said: " During this long, boring period, I used to while away a lot of time listening to the radio, sometimes singing along with the likes of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller [...].

Examples include swing era players such as Jimmy Blanton, who played with Duke Ellington, and Oscar Pettiford, who pioneered the instrument's use in bebop.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

* Mood Indigo ( 1930 ) is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard with lyrics by Irving Mills.

Duke Ellington summed it up by saying, " It's all music.

* 1943 – Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.

Her collaborators included Laurindo Almeida, Harold Arlen, Sonny Burke, Cy Coleman, Duke Ellington, Dave Grusin, Quincy Jones, Francis Lai, Jack Marshall, Johnny Mandel, Marian McPartland, Willard Robison, Lalo Schifrin and Victor Young.

* " I'm Gonna Go Fishin '", composed with Duke Ellington

In 2001, Carter collaborated with Black Star and John Patton to record " Money Jungle " for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Red Hot + Indigo, a tribute to Duke Ellington.

* Mr. Gentle Mr. Cool: A Tribute To Duke Ellington ( 1994, Kokopelli Records )

Mussolini's band toured internationally with artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Helen Merrill and Chet Baker.

Beyond Monk, Lacy performed the work of jazz composers such as Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington and Herbie Nichols ; unlike many jazz musicians he rarely played standard popular or show tunes.

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.

# " I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good " – written by Duke Ellington and Paul Francis Webster ; performed by Nina Simone

* Duke Ellington

Others from Hope include former White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty ; attorney Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. ( 1945 – 1993 ); former Louisville, Kentucky, Mayor David L. Armstrong ; Gary Dee ; former Arkansas Secretary of State Kelly Bryant, PGA golfer Ken Duke, actress / vocalist Ketty Lester, and actress Melinda Dillon.

The Forest Service investigated the name ' Cumberland ', and found it came to Kentucky in 1750 when Thomas Walker named the Cumberland River in honor of Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.

For example, prior to the Revolution, the Kentucky River was called the Louisa River ( or Levisa ), after the wife of the Duke of Cumberland.

** Kentucky wins 94-88 over Duke

Much smaller and poorer were Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, with its two affiliated fitting-schools and Woman's College ; Emory College, in Atlanta ( with Candler family money far in the future ); Emory & Henry, in Southwest Virginia ; Wofford, with its two fitting-schools, in South Carolina ; Trinity, in North Carolina — soon to be endowed by the Duke family and change its name ; Central, in Missouri ; Southern, in Alabama ; Southwestern, in Texas ; Wesleyan, in Kentucky ; Millsaps, in Mississippi ; Centenary, in Louisiana ; Hendrix, in Arkansas ; and Pacific, in California.

* William B. Duke, enshrined in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, trainer of Flying Ebony, winner of the Kentucky Derby in 1925, and Coventry, who won the Preakness Stakes the same year ; then winning the Travers Stakes at Saratoga in August.

Besides Dick Enberg and Rod Hundley ( who worked with Merle Harmon on the January 7, 1973 contest between Kansas and Notre Dame ), other broadcast teams for TVS ' college basketball coverage included John Ferguson and Joe Dean ( who called the February 21, 1970 contest between Kentucky and LSU ), Monte Moore and Ed Macauley ( who called the January 2, 1971 contest between Dayton and UCLA ), Charlie Jones and Elgin Baylor ( who called the January 26, 1972 contest between Providence and USC ), Ray Scott and Bill O ' Donnell ( who called the January 14, 1973 contest between SW Louisiana and Oral Roberts ), Al Michaels and Tom Hawkins ( who called the January 26, 1974 contest between Notre Dame and UCLA ), and Jay Randolph and Billy Packer ( who called the November 17, 1979 contest between Duke and Kentucky and November 22, 1980 contest between DePaul and Louisville ).

While visiting her sister in Kentucky in 1809, she was introduced to Lieutenant Zachary Taylor, then home on leave, by Dr. Alexander Duke.

Duke TIP operates in sixteen states throughout the South and Midwest, specifically the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and in India.

Harlan County, USA is an Oscar-winning 1976 documentary film covering the " Brookside Strike ", an effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky in 1973.

When miners at the Brookside Mine in Harlan County, Kentucky, struck in June 1972, Kopple went there to film the strike against Duke Power Company and UMWA's response ( or lack thereof ).

The Spectrum was used for many basketball tournaments, including Big Five games, eight Atlantic Ten Conference tournaments ( 1977, 1983, 1997 – 2002 ), the 1975, 1980 and 1992 NCAA East Regional ( site of the famous last-second shot by Christian Laettner of Duke to beat Kentucky ), and the 1976 and 1981 Final Fours ( both won by Bobby Knight's Indiana Hoosiers ).

Kansas began the season with a 7-3 record, and while there were wins over Georgetown and UCLA in Maui and an upset of Ohio State in Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas would lose to Kentucky by ten points, to Duke by seven points in the Maui finals, and to Davidson by six points in an upset in Kansas City.

The basketball star, Jojo Johanssen, is a jock / celebrity character, derived from colleges like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Kentucky, Duke, Stanford, Indiana University and the University of Florida, where, in Wolfe's perception, student athletes are treated as superior.

Sousley was born in Hill Top, Kentucky, the second child born to Merle Duke Sousley ( 1899 – 1934 ) and Goldie Mitchell ( November 9, 1904 – March 14, 1988 ).

On September 24, 1904, American tobacco planters formed the protectionist Dark Tobacco District Planters ' Protective Association of Kentucky and Tennessee ( usually called the Association or PPA ) to oppose the corporate monopoly of the American Tobacco Company ( ATC ) ( or " Trust ") owned and operated by James B. Duke.

He attended the National War College in 1977, was a visiting Professor at the Boston College Graduate School of Management 1978-79, and was a member of advisory boards at the Duke University Primate Center in 1986 and the University of Kentucky ’ s Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce in 1989.

Lundquist was also the play-by-play man for the 1992 Regional Final between Kentucky and Duke, where Christian Laettner hit a 17-foot jumper at the buzzer to win the game in overtime.

In 1951, President Duke McCall integrated the campus, in defiance of Kentucky state laws that established segregation at public facilities.

That was Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra, whom he signed the very next day.

* In the 1992 East Regional Finals, Duke forward Christian Laettner caught the inbounds pass from Grant Hill, turned and drained a 17-footer at the buzzer to give Duke the 104 – 103 victory over Kentucky.