* 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.

In 1768, the residents of the area were allowed to incorporate as the separate town of East Windsor, though the area was informally referred to as East Windsor before this time, which then included all of East Windsor, South Windsor and Ellington.

In 1786, Ellington became an independent town.

Ellington is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States.

Originally part of the town of Windsor, Ellington was part of the town of East Windsor from that town's incorporation in 1768 until Ellington split off twenty years later and incorporated itself in May 1786.

As it enters the 21st Century, Ellington has had the 6th fastest growth rate of all the towns in Connecticut, and has been experiencing changes in growing from a rural farming town to a bedroom community.

The size of the town was reduced by the formation of the newer Towns of Ellington and Charlotte.

Ellington is a town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States.

The area of the town centre was originally known as " South Ellington " and is recorded in the Domesday Book as Ellington in the hundred of Beynhurst.

The film Billy Elliot, set in the fictional County Durham town of ' Everington ', was mainly shot in Easington, though the film-makers had to go a long way north to Ellington to find the only working mine in the North East.

As well as the town of Masham the parish included the townships of Burton-on-Yore, Ellingstring, Ellington High and Low, Fearby, Healey with Sutton, Ilton cum Pott and Swinton.

Alam arrived in the United States from Pakistan in 1987, at the age of ten, and resided in the rural middle-class town of Ellington, Connecticut.

The Town of Ellington in Chautauqua County is to the west.

Three Tennessee governors, Buford Ellington, Henry Hollis Horton, and Jim Nance McCord, all lived in Marshall County at the time of their run for governor, earning Marshall County the nickname " Mother of Governors.

Ellington Township is a civil township of Tuscola County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Ellington Township is a township in Dodge County, Minnesota, United States.

Ellington is a city in Reynolds County, Missouri, United States.

* Ellington – The hamlet of Ellington in the town's center at the junction of County Roads 50 ( West Main Street ) and 66 ( Thornton Road ) and US Route 62.

In 1969, the Knoxville News Sentinel published a series of reports regarding organized crime in the county, and Governor Buford Ellington launched an investigation that led to the arrest of Constable D. C. Ramsey, Cocke County Sheriff Tom O ' Dell, and several state troopers stationed in within the county on charges of extortion and bribery.

Marshall County is significant partly because of three Marshall Countians who have served as Governor of Tennessee: Henry Horton, Jim Nance McCord, and Buford Ellington.

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

He had already been created Viscount Swinton, of Masham in the County of York, in 1935, and was made Baron Masham, of Ellington in the County of York, at the same time he was given the earldom.

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Ellington owned a farm in Verona, Tennessee, in Marshall County, near Lewisburg, the county seat.

* Ellington County First School

Shenipsit Lake ( or Snipsic lake ; shin-ip-SIT ), known locally as " The Snip ", is a natural lake used as a water storage facility with a water size of located in Tolland County, Connecticut, bordering the towns of Ellington, Tolland and the Rockville section of Vernon, Connecticut, at.

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