Edward Kennedy Ellington

On his arrival in New York from Washington DC a dozen years earlier, the young Edward Kennedy Ellington – nicknamed "Duke" by a childhood friend – had begun collecting musicians; in 1927 they opened at Harlem's Cotton Club, playing to a white, high-society audience in a long engagement that became one of the landmarks of jazz history.

Duke Ellington's mother dies 2011

Tracy WooldrigeGloucester• Today is the 112th anniversary of the birth of Edward Kennedy Ellington, and my American friends are overjoyed that the UK has declared it a public holiday.

Letters: Rampant publicity and republican fairytales 2011

On his arrival in New York from Washington DC a dozen years earlier, the young Edward Kennedy Ellington – nicknamed "Duke" by a childhood friend – had begun collecting musicians; in 1927 they opened at Harlem's Cotton Club, playing to a white, high-society audience in a long engagement that became one of the landmarks of jazz history.

Duke Ellington's mother dies 2011

On his arrival in New York from Washington DC a dozen years earlier, the young Edward Kennedy Ellington – nicknamed "Duke" by a childhood friend – had begun collecting musicians; in 1927 they opened at Harlem's Cotton Club, playing to a white, high-society audience in a long engagement that became one of the landmarks of jazz history.

Duke Ellington's mother dies 2011

Wait – Edward Kennedy Ellington and John Wayne are the same person?

Regretsy – Your Right 2010

Edward Kennedy Ellington was born right here in Washington, D.C. in 1899.

Remarks By The President And First Lady At Millennium Event ITY National Archives 1998

Of the great figures in twentieth-century culture, Edward Kennedy Ellington is one of the most mysterious.

Slyest of the Foxes Hobsbawm, E.J. 1987