Ellington, Duke
Duke Ellington influenced millions of people both around the world and at home. In his fifty-year career, he played over 20,000 performances in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East as well as Asia. Simply put, Ellington transcends boundaries and fills the world with a treasure trove of music that renews itself through every generation of fans and music-lovers. His legacy continues to live onward and will endure for generations to come. Wynton Marsalis said it best when he said, “His music sounds like America.” Because of the unmatched artistic heights to which he soared, no one deserves the phrase “beyond category” more than Ellington, for it aptly describes his life as well. When asked what inspired him to write, Ellington replied, “My men and my race are the inspiration of my work. I try to catch the character and mood and feeling of my people.”
Duke Ellington is best remembered for the over 3,000 songs that he composed during his lifetime. His best-known titles include: It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing), Sophisticated Lady, Mood Indigo, Solitude, In a Mellow Tone, I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart, and In a Sentimental Mood. The most amazing part about Ellington was that he had some of his most creative periods while he was on the road. Mood Indigo was supposedly written while on a road trip. Duke Ellington’s popular compositions set the bar for generations of brilliant jazz, pop, theatre, and soundtrack composers to come. Though he is a household name for his songs, Ellington was also an unparalleled visionary for his extended suites, composed with Billy Strayhorn. From Black, Brown and Beige (1943) to The Far East Suite (1966) to The Uwis Suite (1972), the suite format was used to give his jazz songs a more empowering meaning, resonance, and purpose: To exalt, mythologize, and re-contextualize the African-American experience on a grand scale.
Duke Ellington was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1966. He was later awarded several other prizes: The Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 and the Legion of Honor by
France in 1973, the highest civilian honors in each country. He died of lung cancer and pneumonia on May 24, 1974, a month after his 75th birthday, and is buried in the Bronx, in New York City. His
funeral was attended by over 12,000 people at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Ella Fitzgerald summed up the occasion: “It’s a very sad day. A genius has passed.”
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