Duke Ellington was at the bottom of his career in the mid-1950's, but that all changed when Ellington's appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 7, 1956, exposed himself to new audiences. Tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves was the one whp played a 28-chorus solo with the song "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue." The concert made international headlines and resulted in an album that would become the best-selling long-playing recording of Duke Ellington's career.
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