“Some of the kids said to me be careful of the White ... dose of Black history and prideful learning to students like Duke Ellington. He remembered his eighth-grade English instructor’s ...

D.C. A confident kid known then as Edward Ellington, he once told his relatives that one day the world would call him “Duke Ellington, ze grand, ze great, and ze glorious Duke Ellington,” Tye ...

Here are seven facts about the artist you may not have known. 1. Teddy Roosevelt would sometimes watch Duke Ellington play baseball. Edward Kennedy Ellington, better known as “Duke,” was born ...

National Museum of American History Esquire Magazine Award, presented to Duke Ellington National Museum of American History Duke Ellington Orchestra Bandstand Case National Museum of African American ...

TYE: He sat in in a sit-in in Baltimore. And the kids who had been staging that sit-in got no response from the press. And when Duke Ellington joined, they got worldwide headlines. But don't trust me.

So too, were Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday ... a time when a kid with a camera could hang out with famous and gifted musicians, unbothered ...