Duke and the Silver Screen: Kevin Whitehead explores Duke Ellington’s cinematic legacy


Duke Ellington and the movies grew up roughly at the same time. Edward Kennedy Ellington was born in Washington, D.C., in 1899, just a few years after the Lumière brothers screened their first short films in Paris. Suffice to say, both Ellington and the cinema would have an enormous impact on the popular culture of

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