After transitional training in the F-102 Delta Dagger at the former Perrin AFB, Texas, he was assigned to the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group ( now 147th Reconnaissance Wing ) of the Texas Air National Guard at Ellington Field Air National Guard Base, Texas.

He learned to fly in the Air Service during World War I, graduated from pursuit pilot training at Ellington Field, Texas, on April 23, 1922, and remained in the service after it became the Air Corps in 1926.

The storm damaged the roofs of several hangars for the T-38 Talons at Ellington Field.

Candidates maintain their flying proficiency by flying 15 hours per month in NASA's fleet of T-38 jets based at nearby Ellington Field.

* Ellington Field

: See: Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base for the military use of the airport

Established by the Army Air Service on 21 May 1917, Ellington Field was one of the initial World War I Army Air Service installations when aviation was in its infancy.

Ellington Field once had scheduled commercial air service: Continental Express flights between Ellington Airport and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in north Houston ended in 2004.

Prior to the cessation of commercial air service, the route flown between Bush Intercontinental and Ellington Field was the shortest fixed-wing route flown in the United States at only.

To this day, Ellington Field serves as a reliever airport for both Bush Intercontinental and the William P. Hobby Airport, and handles diverted aircraft from those two airports during bad weather events and peak traffic times.

:: 111th Fighter-Bomber Squadron ( Ellington Field, Houston )

In early 1917 the War Department ordered two military installations to be built in Harris County: Camp Logan and Ellington Field.

World War II sparked the reopening of Ellington Field.

As a major, he commanded Kelly Field, Texas, from October 5, 1920, to February 1921, served at Fort Sam Houston as air officer of the Eighth Corps Area until November 1921, and was commanding officer of the 1st Pursuit Group, first at Ellington Field, Texas, and later at Selfridge Field, Michigan, until September 24, 1924.

Cockrell was reassigned in February 2006 to Flight Crew Operations ' Aircraft Operations Division ( AOD ) at Ellington Field, as the WB-57 High Altitude Research Program Manager.

* Ellington Field

One, a KC-135A known as NASA 930, was also used by Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment for filming scenes involving weightlessness in the movie Apollo 13 ; that aircraft was retired in 2000 and is now on display at Ellington Field, near the Johnson Space Center.

From 1977 until 1980 he flew F-4N's with Naval Reserve Fighter Squadron 201 at NAS Dallas and then three years as a member of the Texas Air National Guard with the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group at Ellington Field as a pilot in the F-4C.

* January 25 – Second Lieutenant Carl Mather is killed in an aircraft collision at Ellington Field, Texas.

From November 2000 to March 2004 he served as Director, Flight Crew Operations Directorate, responsible for directing the day-to-day activities of the directorate, including the NASA Astronaut Corps and aircraft operations at Ellington Field.

Stationed at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, his primary responsibilities included flying as an instructor pilot in the Shuttle Training Aircraft ( STA ) and conducting the initial flight test of the T-38 avionics upgrade aircraft.

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

" In his autobiography, Music is my Mistress ( 1973 ), Ellington said he missed more lessons than he attended, feeling at the time that playing the piano was not his talent.

Detroit Free Press music critic Mark Stryker concludes that the work of Billy Strayhorn and Ellington in Anatomy of a Murder, the trial court drama film directed by Otto Preminger in 1959, is " indispensable,.

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.

Ellington is depicted on the quarter seated at a piano, sheet music in hand, along with the inscription " Justice for All ", which is the District's motto.

Although he made two more stage appearances before his death, Ellington performed what is considered his final " full " concert in a ballroom at Northern Illinois University on March 20, 1974.

A statue of Ellington at a piano is featured at the entrance to UCLA's Schoenberg Hall.

The Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival is a nationally renowned annual competition for prestigious high school bands.

Started in 1996 at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the festival is named after Ellington because of the large focus that the festival places on his works.

It is also dedicated to Duke Ellington.

Some sources erroneously list him as a dancer in the Duke Ellington short, Symphony in Black ( 1935 ), who is first seen dancing with a woman in his apartment before taking her out.

Jam Session is a 1942 short film, directed by Josef Berne, which shows Duke Ellington and his orchestra performing C Jam Blues.

Jam Session is included on the DVD Duke Ellington: Early Tracks from the Master of Swing ( 2006 ).

Monk is the second-most recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is particularly remarkable as Ellington composed over 1, 000 songs while Monk wrote about 70.

He is one of five jazz musicians to have been featured on the cover of Time ( the other four being Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis, and Dave Brubeck ) as of 2010.

Ellington responded: " Fate is being kind to me.

) Despite this joke, Nat Hentoff reported that when he spoke to Ellington about the subject, he was " angrier than I'd ever seen him before ," and Ellington said, " I'm hardly surprised that my kind of music is still without, let us say, official honor at home.

Crystal Lake is a census-designated place and part of the town of Ellington, Connecticut in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States.

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

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.

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.

Ellington was also inspired by his first encounters with stride pianists James P. Johnson and Luckey Roberts.

In 1930, Ellington and his Orchestra connected with a whole different audience in a concert with Maurice Chevalier and they also performed at the Roseland Ballroom, " America's foremost ballroom ".

Strayhorn, with his training in classical music, not only contributed his original lyrics and music, but also arranged and polished many of Ellington's works, becoming a second Ellington or " Duke's doppelganger ".

Besides recordings his own compositions, Ellington also recorded a handful of current hits, as well as a number of specially written songs by Dorothy Fields-Jimmy McHugh and Fats Waller-Andy Razaf for various Cotton Club Revues.

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 '.

He also met the American composer George Gershwin in New York and went with him to hear jazz in Harlem, probably hearing some of the famous jazz musicians such as Duke Ellington.

" 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.

Stafford also has ( limited ) access to Sandy Beach on Crystal Lake in Ellington.

The Caro post office, with ZIP code 48723, also serves nearly all of Indianfields and Almer townships, as well as smaller portions of Wells Township to the east of Indianfields, Dayton Township to the southeast of Indianfields, Fremont Township to the south of Indianfields, Juniata Township to the west of Indianfields, Fairgrove Township to the northwest of Indianfields, Columbia Township, to the north of Almer, Elmwood Township to the northeast of Almer, and Ellington Township to the east of Almer.

The name developed from a hoped-for sponsorship from the M & B Brewery which failed to materialise, the band calling themselves both " The M B's " and " The M B Five " and was also a subtle reference to the Duke Ellington song, " Mood Indigo ".

Nick LaRocca's 1917 composition " Tiger Rag " was covered by Louis Armstrong in several different versions throughout his career, while Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and The Mills Brothers also recorded important and influential cover versions of the jazz standard.

The album also included their note-for-note rendition of Duke Ellington and James " Bubber " Miley's " East St. Louis Toodle-Oo.

His father, who was also a jazz promoter, was friends with Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Short, Miles Davis and other jazz greats.

With Ellington, he was the featured clarinet soloist, while also doing some section work on tenor.

Brunswick also had an impressive black and white jazz roster including Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington ( usually as The Jungle Band ), King Oliver, Andy Kirk, Red Nichols and others.

He played with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Blakey, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others, and also led his own band.

Chicago also offered a host of radio stations that featured the then-rebellious sounds of jazz, exposing Williams to the stylings of Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, Big Joe Turner, and many others.