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Ellington returned to work for his father playing alto horn in 1950, and then as general manager and copyist from 1955 until 1959. [3] In 1960, Ellington became Della Reese's musical director, then later went on take a job as a radio DJ in New York for three years beginning in 1962.
Great Times! is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington's featuring duet performances with his arranger and musical partner Billy Strayhorn originally recorded for the Mercer Records label in 1950, and later released on a 10" LP called Piano Duets.
As a Dance Division student in the late 1950s, Mercedes, weary of the long commute to Juilliard from her home in St. Albans, Queens, moved into the International House, where her next-door neighbor was fellow student Pina Bausch (’60, dance). “We worked in the cafeteria and bussed tables together,” Ellington said.
10 de fev. de 1996 · Mercer Ellington, a bandleader who spent much of his career maintaining the musical legacy of his father, Duke Ellington, died on Thursday in Gentofte Hospital in Copenhagen. He was 76. The...
From 1950 to 1952, young Ellington operated his own company, Mercer Records; in 1954 he was with the trumpeter Cootie Williams as a sideman and band manager. From 1955 to 1959 he was the chief assistant to his father, and in the 1960s, Mercer led the Duke Ellington band and
Mercer Kennedy Ellington, born March 11, 1919, died February 8, 1996. He was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. Ellington was the son of Duke Ellington, a famous composer, pianist and bandleader, and Edna Thompson.
3 de jun. de 1994 · Band leader and composer MERCER ELLINGTON. The son of Duke Ellington, he perpetuates the big band tradition his father made famous as head of the Duke Ellington Band. When he was a...
