A Portrait of Duke Ellington is a piece of digital artwork by Walter Neal which was uploaded on April 24th, 2016.
A Portrait of Duke Ellington
A portrait of Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington (April 29, 1899--May 24, 1974), an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which... more
by Walter Neal
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A Portrait of Duke Ellington
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Walter Neal
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Digital Art - Painting
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A portrait of Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899--May 24, 1974), an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.
Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward, and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Though widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle, and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music, rather than to a musical genre such as jazz. He is also known, in many music circles, as 'The Composer of the 20th Century'.
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