Stolen Moment: Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn


Don Hunstein’s iconic photograph of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn captured the longtime colleagues in front of the tour bus that had brought the Ellington Orchestra to the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956, likely going over details for the performance that would bring renewed interest in the legacy swing band. While Ellington and Strayhorn had

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