First Edition Ellington

Big Band Spotlight - 03/13/2011

Over the course of his career Duke Ellington wrote more than 2,000 compositions for his band. They became so famous he had to rework them again and again. This week on Big Band Spotlight, host Karl Gehrke features the first recordings of some of the most famous numbers of the Duke Ellington songbook.




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