Duke Ellington and his orchestra playing this awesome tune in 1943. "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills, now accepted as a jazz standard. The music was written and arranged by Ellington in August 1931 during intermissions at Chicago's Lincoln Tavern and was first recorded by Ellington and his orchestra for Brunswick Records (Br 6265) on February 2, 1932. Ivie Anderson sang the vocal and trombonist Joe Nanton and alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges played the instrumental solos. The title was based on the oft stated credo of Ellington's former trumpeter Bubber Miley, who was dying of tuberculosis. The song became famous, Ellington wrote, "as the expression of a sentiment which prevailed among jazz musicians at the time." Probably the first song to use the phrase "swing" in the title, it introduced the term into everyday language and presaged the Swing Era by three years. The Ellington band played the song continuously over the years and recorded it numerous times, most often with trumpeter Ray Nance as vocalist.

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The Duke Ellington Orchestra playing Satin Doll

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Duke Ellington: Take The "A" Train

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Duke Ellington and his orchestra in concerto in Copenhagen (1965-1971) - sax Harry Carney

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A 1942 recording of C Jam Blues beformed by Duke Ellington and a collection of other Jazz giants in a famous recording called "Jam Session". Other artist included Barney Bigard, Sonny Greer, Ray Nance, Joe 'Tricky Sam' Nanton, Rex Stewart, and Ben Webster. Use this link to open my Jazz Giants library playlist. www.youtube.com EUdGs6FKg=

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@cookdandbombd - www.cookdandbombd.co.uk Encoded by lfbarfe! Watching the Duke Ellington Jazz 65 show (kindly encoded by Mr lfbarfe), I was VERY taken with the performance of Isfahan, from the "Far East Suite." I've chopped it out to share on YouTube, partly so I can keep it handy. Hope you enjoy it. Johnny Hodge's playing is extraordinarily beautiful, very warm and emotive. If you like this, then check out Demonoid for the full thing.

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Adult actress Eva Ellington goes deep with Kassem G. WATCH MORE OF EVA'S INTERVIEW: Deleted Scenes: www.youtube.com Twitter Quesions: www.youtube.com Scene Readings: www.youtube.com Eva's Links: twitter.com www.myspace.com Directed By: Layne Pavoggi www.youtube.com Edited By: Jon Na www.youtube.com ______________________________ Subscribe to my Second Channel: www.youtube.com TWITTER: twitter.com DAILYBOOTH: dailybooth.com FACEBOOK: apps.facebook.com MYSPACE: www.myspace.com My Website: thekassemg.com SEND ME LETTERS 2461 Santa Monica Blvd. #511 Santa Monica, CA 90404

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Classical tune 'In a sentimental mood' performed by outstanding Duke Ellington and John Coltrane (1962)

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www.billytaylorjazz.net presents Billy Taylor playing along with the Master himself, and piano legend Willie the Lion Smith, from a 1969 tv celebration of Billy's birthday.

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Duke Ellington Take the A Train (Ella Fitzgerald)

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FOR MORE EPICLY LATER'D VISIT: www.vbs.tv Erik is all around the coolest person I have ever met. The way he looks, the way he skates, the way he pushes--he's just a straight-up cool man. I remember meeting him on the first Baker tour. Jay Strickland, Scotty Copalman, Trainwreck, Knox Godoy, as well as all the people that still skate for Baker were on that trip. It was a mess. It was like the heyday of the Pissdrunx. I couldn't sleep because we put 15 people in 3 hotel rooms and you never knew when Erik or Trainwreck were going to wake you up to fight you. It was really kind of scary. But anyway, as much of a pile that Erik seems like from a distance (or when he's drunk), he's actually a very smart and thoughtful person. Did you know he invented the Hand Board? It's like a giant finger board that Tech Deck makes and every time Toys R Us sells one of those stupid things dude gets a dollar. He's secretly pretty shrewd. Right now he's got a sunglasses company and owns part of Supra Shoes.... seriously, he's a darkman in disguise. In the end though, it all comes back to skateboarding, and Erik is first and foremost an incredible skateboarder, carving his own niche in a crowded world. Any time a video comes out with new Ellington footage, I'm glued to the screen.

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Duke Ellington & His Orchestra performing Satin Doll

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Duke Ellington Orchestra with Herb Jeffries on vocals

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It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing (doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah) It don't mean a thing all you got to do is sing (doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah) It makes no difference If it's sweet or...

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FROM THE ALBUM MONEY JUNGLE

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Ellington talking about how his inspiration works, from the documentary On The Road With Duke Ellington directed by Robert Drew.

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This was from 1965, and one of the very times I had ever seen Billy actually play with the band. Of course it's Take the "A" Train.

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Duke Ellington and his Orchestra - perform "Ebony Rhapsody" - 1934

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Duke was interviewed by the Finnish National Broadcasting Company while arriving to Helsinki for a concert in 1973.

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Here's another Duke Song. Enjoy!

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I see this clip around here, but usually in B&W (Saw one clip in color, but it didn't look as clear, IMO) Several more Ellington clips from this recording to come!

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UK TV concert -featured Paul Gonsalves

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Great live performance of Perdido. Be sure to keep an eye on Paul Gonsalvez :)

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The Duke still swung when the band recorded this rare version of "Take The A Train" in 1943. In the band are all the usual guys but who is the female singer?

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UNC's Wayne Ellington was this year's Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Tournament. Watch as the Tar Heels guard carved up the Michigan State Spartans with his deadly three-point shooting, layups, and dunks.

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B' side second track from Ellington's "Money Jungle" album. Recorded at Sound Makers, New York, New York on September 17, 1962. Originally released on United Artists (15017). Duke Ellington (piano); Charles Mingus (bass); Max Roach (drums).

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The film is called "Check and Double Check". It consists of 74 minutes of nonsence and 2 minutes of Ellington. Why couldn't they have made it the other way round?

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The 5-Minute Workout Once we hit 20, the average American loses 5 pounds of muscle every decade. At the same time, we're gaining 10 pounds of fat. That means we lose 15 pounds of muscle and replace it with 30 pounds of fat by the time we're 50. The good news is — it's never too late to reverse this disturbing trend. The better news is that it doesn't take much time. In a recent Growing Bolder segment, I asked Dr. Ellington Darden to create his shortest workout that can still achieve impressive muscle-building gains. A while later, Dr. Darden invited me back to his private gym to try his routine. I made sure that I had my videographer along as Ellington instructed me through each exercise, repetition by repetition. From the first exercise, you'll see that it didn't take me long to feel my 56-year-old muscles contracting and stretching — with the necessary intensity — to become bigger and stronger. Five minutes, two or three times a week, may be all you need to improve significantly your strength and fitness.

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This shamefully under-rated and largely ignored tenor-sax giant delivers a lesson here on how to play,and swing,the blues.

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In the early 1960s five jazz films were commissioned by a corporate sponsor -- one of which featured the Duke Ellington Orchestra. This piece includes a remarkable sequence with Ellington and bassist Aaron Bell. Personnel: Ray Nance, Shorty Baker, Cat Anderson, Bill Berry, Ed Mullens (t), Lawrence Brown, Leon Cox, Chuck Connors (tb), Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges (as), Paul Gonsalves (ts), Jimmy Hamilton (cl, ts), Harry Carney (bars), Duke Ellington (p), Aaron Bell (b), Sam Woodyard (d). NYC, Jan 9, 1962.

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Foxtrot - Slow tempo (Duke Ellington) Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Vocal: Kay Davis

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The song from Duke Ellington's big band, 'Cotton Tail'.

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FROM THE GREAT GREAT SUMMIT

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Duke Ellington and his Orchestra singers: Marie Bryant and Paul White

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And His Mother Called Him Bill (1967) Personnel: Duke Ellington (piano); Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton (alto saxophone, clarinet); Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); Paul Gonsalves (tenor saxophone); Harry Carney (baritone saxophone); Cat Anderson, Mercer Ellington, Herbie Jones, Cootie Williams (trumpet); Clark Terry (flugelhorn); John Sanders, Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper, Chuck Connors (trombone); Aaron Bell, Jeff Castleman (bass); Steve Little, Sam Woodyard (drums). I am completely captivated by the Strayhorn/Ellington narrative and by the 1967 CD And His Mother Called Him Bill. Every story has a beginning and a middle, and as many of us eventually figure out , there are no real endings. This CD is a living legacy of that reality. My appreciation for this body of work is inseparable from the love story it expresses. Can you imagine being fortunate enough to meet someone in your lifetime that you connect with on a creative and soul level so profound that it is not a threat to, nor rivalled by any other kind of intimacy? From all that I have read by historians and biographers, and all myths aside, this is the essence of the relationship Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn shared and nurtured for 30 years. A bond beyond gender or sexuality, and even deeper than friendship. Yet, most of their famous compositions were collaborated on while apart and from completely different approaches, one being self taught liking contrast and discord, the other classically trained loving <b>...</b>

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From October 26, 1927, here is Duke Ellington's landmark recording of "Black and Tan Fantasie." Growling trumpeter Bubber Miley, along with trombonist Joe Nanton, are the star of this record. The pressing heard here is actually from the 1930's and is a dub of the original recording. I included it as an example of how these studio dubs sounded to record buyers who played them on acoustic machines, which is to say 'very good.' The record player is an Orthophonic Victrola model VE4-4X, or "Granada". The "E" in the model number indicates that the Victrola is fitted with a synchronous A/C motor instead of a wind-up motor. The machine has a full "orthophonic" playback system (for electrically-recorded records) including the special orthophonic sound box with a duralumin diaphragm and a folded exponential horn inside of the cabinet. Although the gigantic Credenza Victrola produced deeper bass, the Granada had the most accurate overall frequency response of all the acoustic Orthophonic Victrolas. The serial number indicates that this machine was probably manufactured in 1926. I shoot my video with a Sony Digital 8 format camera. For audio, I use a Shure SM-57 microphone on a stand placed about 4 feet in front of the Victrola horn. I use "soft tone" needles to keep from overloading the microphone. The mic is plugged directly into the video camera. The videos are edited with Windows Movie Maker. I use Sound Forge 9 to clean up the audio, but don't worry -- you're hearing the record <b>...</b>

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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington www.amazon.com (April 29, 1899 -- May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1000 compositions. In the words of Bob Blumenthal of the Boston Globe "In the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American or otherwise, than Edward Kennedy Ellington." A prominent figure in the history of jazz, Ellington's music stretched into various other genres, including blues, gospel, film scores, popular, and classical. His career spanned more than 50 years and included leading his orchestra, composing an inexhaustible songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals, and world tours. Several of his instrumental works were adapted into songs that became standards. Due to his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and thanks to his eloquence and extraordinary charisma, he is generally considered to have elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other traditional genres of music. His reputation increased after his death, the Pulitzer Prize Board bestowing a special posthumous honor in 1999. Ellington led his band from 1923 until his death in 1974. His son Mercer Ellington, who had already been handling all administrative aspects of his father's business for several decades, led the band until his own death in 1996. At that point, the original band dissolved. Paul Ellington, Mercer's youngest son and executor of the Duke <b>...</b>

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Duke Ellington and his Orchestra 1929. Black And Tan Fantasy. Black Beauty Cotton Club Stomp These are excerpts of the early jazz art movie : Black And Tan Fantasy It shows the band in a setting very close to what the band did in the famous cotton club, backing dancers, singers and other acts. Black and Tan Fantasy is one of the first pieces Ellington recorded in what is now called jungle style. Originally in 1927 it was a kind of solo piece for trumpetter Bubber Miley. There also exist a lovely version (Even 2 takes) where Jabbo Smith substitutes for Miley, also 1927. When the time was ready in 1929 to make a movie recording, Miley had allready left the Ellington band. What makes this movie very interesting is that not Miley's follow up, Cootie Williams plays the solos, but instead it is Arthur Whetsol. Cootie was allready in the band, but self declared in an interview that at first he did laugh about the growl/plunger solos and only after a while started studying it seriously. Arthur Whetsol was more known for his lyrical solo work, a famous example is the haunting beautyfull tone on Creole Rhapsody. Another striking lyrical solo by Whetsol can be heard on Black Beauty, also in this movie. Also note that Whetsol plays the muted solo on Black and Tan with a harmon mute, usually it is done with a plunger by others. Also an interesting note is that the alto saxophone solo, that used to be played by Otto Hardwicke, is not played by his follow up Johnny Hodges, but instead <b>...</b>

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Beautiful tune performed by Duke Ellington and John Coltrane in 1962, to a small pictire-video of mine. According to Ellington, the song was born in Durham, North Carolina. "We had played a big dance in a tobacco warehouse, and afterwards a friend of mine, an executive in the North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, threw a party for us. I was playing piano when another one of our friends had some trouble with two chicks. To pacify them, I composed this there and then, with one chick standing on each side of the piano." Ellington composed the piece in 1935 and recorded it with his orchestra the same year. Lyrics were later written for the tune by Irving Mills and Manny Kurtz. The song uses a technique called contrapuntal or chromatic embellishment of static harmony. A "line cliché". This is the best-known version of the song, and is featured on "Duke Ellington and John Coltrane" and "Coltrane for Lovers".

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