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Duke Ellington Mural Expected Back On U Street This Spring
On historic U Street, public art is also another staple of the community and one of the District’s most important pieces of art is being returned to its rightful place. The Duke Ellington mural ...
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PHOTOS: Duke Ellington’s LeDroit Park house hits market for $1.2M
The LeDroit Park childhood home of legendary jazz musician and D.C. native Duke Ellington is up for ... built in 1907 and sits at 420 Elm Street NW along the U Street corridor near Howard University.
The Baltimore Sun3y
The Duke of U Street; Duke Ellington grew up learning genteel music among Washington sophisticates, but traded it for the pool halls, bars and jazz of D.C. and N.Y.
The eyes with their familiar bags underneath seem to follow passers-by along this revitalized stretch of U Street. In this painting, Duke Ellington looks as if he might have been up all night ...
The Washington Post13y
Duke Ellington’s Washington
The elegance and sophistication of musical genius Edward "Duke" Ellington was ... Another cornerstone to the U Street corridor, it opened in 1922 as a silent movie house and vaudeville site ...
The Washington Post21y
On U Street, Mood Indigo
When I arrived in the District in 1999, the vibrancy of U Street made an impression on me. Duke Ellington was on U, and because I was an 18-year-old jazz aficionado fresh from Nashville ...
Washingtonian2y
From Duke Ellington to the 9:30 Club: The Fascinating History of a DC Venue
If you live in the DC area and care about music, you’ve likely spent time inside 815 V Street. Duke Ellington in 1945 ... having relocated from a studio on U Street (hence the call letters).