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 joined in New York City by his wife, Edna Thompson, and son Mercer in the late twenties, but the couple soon permanently separated.

Three-minute masterpieces flowed from the minds of Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Ellington's son Mercer Ellington, Mary Lou Williams and members of the Orchestra.

Shortly after their marriage, on March 11, 1919 Edna gave birth to their only son, Mercer Kennedy Ellington.

His son, Mercer Ellington kept his big band alive after his death.

The celebrated brass growl effect was vividly described by Duke Ellington's son, Mercer Ellington:

Shortly before Ellington went on his second European tour with his orchestra, from March to May 1939, Ellington announced to his sister Ruth and son Mercer Ellington, that Strayhorn " is staying with us.

He was the son of Major Lord Charles George Francis Mercer Nairne Petty-Fitzmaurice ( 1874 – 1914 ), second son of the fifth Marquess.

# Lord Robert Harold Mercer Nairne ( b. 1947 ) ( younger son of the 8th Marquess )

# Samuel George Mercer Nairne ( b. 1976 ) ( elder son of Lord Robert )

# George Yvan Mercer Nairne ( b. 2009 ) ( elder son of Samuel )

# Harold Charles Mercer Nairne ( b. 2011 ) ( younger son of Samuel )

# Joseph Douglas Mercer Nairne ( b. 1980 ) ( younger son of Lord Robert )

# Fergus Grey Mercer Nairne ( b. 2009 ) ( only son of Joseph )

Born in Stockport in Cheshire in 1956, Mercer is the son of Eric Mercer, who became Bishop of Exeter.

Another son, Brian M. Hughes, is the elected County Executive of Mercer County.

* Trent Fernandez: The White Dino Ranger ; a manga artist and adopted son of Anton Mercer.

Mercer Ellington, the son of Duke Ellington, filmed a public service announcement for the exhibition The Renaissance: Black Arts of the ' 20s.

That same year he began a relationship with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, directed by Duke ’ s son Mercer, a relationship that lasted more than15 years.

The Ohio Company was composed of Virginians, including Thomas Lee as president, Nathaniel Chapman as treasurer ( 1709 – 1760 ), John Mercer as the company's secretary and general counsel, John's son George Mercer as the company's agent to England, two of George Washington's brothers, Lawrence Washington ( who succeeded to the management upon the death of Lee ) and Augustine Washington, Jr., as well as Englishmen, including the Duke of Bedford, Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie, and John Hanbury, a wealthy London merchant.

Mercer was born in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, the son of a former Nottingham Forest and Tranmere Rovers footballer, also named Joe.

Paul Ellington, Mercer's youngest son and executor of the Duke Ellington estate, kept the Duke Ellington Orchestra going from Mercer's death onwards.

Garrett's own career as a saxophonist took off when he joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1978, then led by Duke's son, Mercer Ellington.

He has been married to actress Allyson Tucker since 1994 and has a son, Ellington.

Ray's son Lance Ellington is a singer who has recorded several jazz oriented albums, and is one of the backing singers in the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing.

Ellington turned to Billy Strayhorn and son Mercer Ellington, who were registered with ASCAP competitor BMI to " write a whole new book for the band ," Mercer recalled.

Born the son of Edward Bayzand Ellington and Marion Florence ( née Leonard ), Ellington was educated at Clifton College.

Mrs. Roebuck smilingly declined and began suddenly to go on about her son, who was `` onleh a little younguh than you bawhs ''.

The son and heir of a prominent family marries a girl who has tell-tale shadows on the half-moons of her finger nails.

Joseph Jastrow, the younger son of the distinguished rabbi, Marcus Jastrow, was a friendly, round-faced fellow with a little mustache, whose field was psychology, and who was also a punster and a jolly tease.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

We lived for a while in a movie melodrama with a German cook and her son who turned out to be Nazis.

My son, who has completed two years in engineering school, has a summer job on a construction project as an unskilled laborer.

He spent concentrated weeks putting his two figures together: a Mary who would be young and sensitive, yet strong enough to hold her son on her lap ; ;

Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.

When Richard's parents told him they wanted to take him to an orthodontist -- a dentist who specializes in realigning teeth and jaws -- their young son was interested.

Her husband, who is the son of Alton John Mason of Shreveport, La., and the late Mrs. Henry Cater Parmer, was president of Alpha Tau Omega and a member of Delta Sigma Pi at Lamar Tech, and did graduate work at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa, on a Rotary Fellowship.

-- The 15-year-old adopted son of a Washington attorney and his wife, who were murdered early today in their Chesapeake Bay-front home, has been sent to Spring Grove State Hospital for detention.

A word should be said for Gary Morgan, a Broadway youngster who, as the adopted son, makes life miserable for nearly everybody and Larkin in particular.

In a sense, he is offering Bonn what its famous son ( who left as a youth ) never did -- the sound of the composer's mature style.

It must be that son who sat before her now, shriveled to half his size and half his senses.

His son who had never held an office in any organization in the eighteen years of his life.

His son who did not know whether he wanted to be doctor, lawyer, merchant or chief.

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

Medicine and healing are associated with Apollo, whether through the god himself or mediated through his son Asclepius, yet Apollo was also seen as a god who could bring ill-health and deadly plague.

Aplu, it is suggested, comes from the Akkadian Aplu Enlil, meaning " the son of Enlil ", a title that was given to the god Nergal, who was linked to Shamash, Babylonian god of the sun.

Aplu, meaning the son of, was a title given to the god Nergal, who was linked to the Babylonian god of the sun Shamash.

When Zeus struck down Apollo's son Asclepius with a lightning bolt for resurrecting Hippolytus from the dead ( transgressing Themis by stealing Hades's subjects ), Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes, who had fashioned the bolt for Zeus.

By Cyrene, Apollo had a son named Aristaeus, who became the patron god of cattle, fruit trees, hunting, husbandry and bee-keeping.

Apollo also had a lyre-playing contest with Cinyras, his son, who committed suicide when he lost.

In the time of Augustus, who considered himself under the special protection of Apollo and was even said to be his son, his worship developed and he became one of the chief gods of Rome.

He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.