Performer: Duke Ellington
Album: Cotton Tail (1940)
Label: Membran Music. Made in DE
Catalog #: 204153-302
Style: Swing
Year: 2004
Format: FLAC (image + .cue)
Bitrate: lossless
Covers: in archive
Amount of tracks: 20+20
Size ZIP: ~ 462 mb
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) was a jazz pianist and band leader, one of the big names in the history of the genre, and one of the USA's greatest popular composers.
He hailed from a middle-class family in Washington, DC, and learned piano both from lessons and from imitating the ragtime pianists in the community. After attaining modest success in DC as a pianist and jazz band leader, Duke sought the big time by taking his band to New York City, the center of the music world and the most glamorous scene of The Roaring Twenties. He first played in the Kentucky Club, then the Cotton Club, honing his songwriting chops and gathering more musicians around him until he was no longer leading a band but an orchestra. During the 1930s and 1940s, as big-band swing grew in popularity throughout the US and the world, Duke's jazz orchestra became renowned as one of the best.