Duke Ellington

Biography

Duke Ellington was the main composer in the annals of jazz in addition to being truly a bandleader who have held his huge group together continuously for nearly 50 years. Both areas of his profession had been related; Ellington utilized his music group like a musical lab for his fresh compositions and formed his writing particularly to display the skills of his bandmembers, a lot of whom continued to be with him for long stretches. Ellington also published film ratings and stage musicals, and many of his instrumental functions were modified into tunes that became hallmarks. Furthermore to touring 12 months in and 12 months out, he documented extensively, producing a gigantic body of function which was still becoming assessed 25 % hundred years after his loss of life. Ellington was the boy of the White Home butler, Adam Edward Ellington, and therefore was raised in comfortable environment. He started piano lessons at age group seven and was composing music by his teenagers. He dropped away from senior high school in his junior season in 1917 to go after a profession in music. Initially, he booked and performed in rings within the Washington, D.C., region, but in Sept 1923 the Washingtonians, a five-piece band of which he was an associate, moved completely to NY, where they obtained a residency in the days Square place The Hollywood Membership (afterwards The Kentucky Membership). They produced their initial recordings in November 1924, and lower music for different record businesses under a number of pseudonyms, in order that many current major brands, notably Sony, Common, and BMG, will have considerable holdings of the function from the time within their archives, that are reissued regularly. The group steadily improved in proportions and arrived under Ellington’s management. They performed in that which was known as “jungle” design, their sly plans often highlighted from the muted growling audio of trumpeter Wayne “Bubber” Miley. Among that is Ellington’s 1st signature track, “East St. Louis Toodle-oo,” that your music group 1st documented for Vocalion Information in November 1926, and which became their initial graph single within a re-recorded edition for Columbia in July 1927. The Ellington music group moved uptown towards the Cotton Membership in Harlem on Dec 4, 1927. Their residency on the famed membership, which lasted a lot more than three years, produced Ellington a nationally known musician because of radio broadcasts that emanated through the bandstand. In 1928, he previously two two-sided strikes: “Dark and Tan Illusion”/”Creole Love Contact” on Victor (right now BMG) and “Doin’ the brand new Low Down”/”Diga Diga Doo” on OKeh (right now Sony), released as from the Harlem Footwarmers. “The Mooche” on OKeh peaked within the graphs in the beginning of 1929. While keeping his job in the Cotton Golf club, Ellington required his music group downtown to try out within the Broadway musical Display Girl, offering the music of George Gershwin, in the summertime of 1929. The next summer, the music group took a keep of lack to leave to California and appearance within the film Examine and CHECK. From the rating, “Three Little Terms,” with vocals from the Tempo Boys offering Bing Crosby, became lots one strike on Victor in November 1930; its turn side, “Band Dem Bells,” also reached the graphs. The Ellington music group left The Natural cotton Club in Feb 1931 to begin with a tour that, in a way, wouldn’t normally end before leader’s loss of life 43 years afterwards. At exactly the same time, Ellington have scored a high Five strike with an instrumental edition of 1 of his criteria, “Disposition Indigo” released on Victor. The documenting was afterwards inducted in to the Grammy Hall of Popularity. As “the Jungle Band,” the Ellington Orchestra charted on Brunswick afterwards in 1931 with “Rockin’ in Tempo” and with the extended structure “Creole Rhapsody,” pressed on both edges of the 78 single, a sign that Ellington’s goals like a article writer were starting to lengthen beyond brief functions. (Another edition from the piece was a graph entrance on Victor in March 1932.) “Limehouse Blues” was a graph entrance on Victor in August 1931, after that in the wintertime of 1932, Ellington have scored a high Ten strike on Brunswick with one of is own best-remembered music, “It Don’t Mean something (If It Ain’t Got That Golf swing),” offering the vocals of Ivie Anderson. This is still a lot more than three years prior to the formal delivery of the golf swing period, and Ellington helped supply the period its name. Ellington’s following major strike was another personal track for him, “Advanced Woman.” His instrumental edition became a high Five strike within the planting season of 1933, using its turn side, cure of “Stormy Weather conditions,” also producing the very best Five. The Ellington Orchestra produced another feature film, Murder on the Vanities, within the springtime of 1934. Their instrumental rendition of “Cocktails for just two” in the score strike number 1 on Victor in-may, and they strike the very best Five with both edges from the Brunswick discharge “Moon Shine”/”Solitude” that fall. The music group also appeared within the Mae Western world film Belle from the Nineties and performed within the soundtrack of several Happy Returns. Later on within the fall, the music group was back the very best Ten with “Saddest Story,” plus they experienced two TOP strikes in 1935, “Merry-Go-Round” and “Accent on Youngsters.” As the second option was scoring within the strike parade in Sept, Ellington documented another of his prolonged compositions, “Reminiscing in Tempo,” which used both edges of two 78s. Even while he became even more ambitious, nevertheless, he was seldom from the strike parade, credit scoring another TOP strike, “Natural cotton,” in nov 1935, and two even more, “Love IS SIMILAR TO a Cigarette” and “Oh Babe! Probably Someday,” in 1936. The music group came back to Hollywood in 1936 and documented music for the Marx Brothers’ film A Trip to the Races as well as for Strike Parade of 1937. On the other hand, they were credit scoring Top Ten strikes with “Scattin’ on the Kit-Kat” as well as the golf swing regular “Caravan,” co-written by valve trombonist Juan Tizol, and Ellington was carrying on to pen prolonged instrumental works such as for example “Diminuendo in Blue” and “Crescendo in Blue.” “IN THE EVENT THAT YOU Were in my own Place (What CAN YOU Perform?),” a vocal quantity offering Ivie Anderson, was a high Ten strike within the springtime of 1938, and Ellington obtained his third number 1 strike in Apr with an instrumental edition of another regular, “I Allow a Song Walk out My Center.” Within the fall, he was back the very best Ten having a edition from the English show melody “Lambeth Walk.” The Ellington music group underwent many notable changes by the end from the 1930s. After many years documenting pretty much frequently for Brunswick, Ellington transferred to Victor. In early 1939 Billy Strayhorn, a composer, arranger, and pianist, became a member of the business. He didn’t usually perform using the orchestra, but he became Ellington’s structure partner towards the level that soon it had been impossible to inform where Ellington’s composing still left off and Strayhorn’s started. Two key workers adjustments strengthened the clothing using the acquisition of bassist Jimmy Blanton in Sept and tenor saxophonist Ben Webster in Dec. Their effect on Ellington’s sound was therefore serious that their fairly brief tenure continues to be dubbed “the Blanton-Webster Band” by jazz followers. These various adjustments were encapsulated from the Victor launch of Strayhorn’s “Consider the ‘A’ Teach,” a golf swing era regular, in the summertime of 1941. The documenting was later on inducted in to the Grammy Hall of Popularity. That same summer time, Ellington is at LA, where his stage musical, Leap for Joy, opened up on July 10 and went for 101 shows. Unfortunately, the display never visited Broadway, but among its tunes was “I ACQUIRED It Poor (WHICH Ain’t Great),” another regular. The U.S. admittance into World Battle II in Dec 1941 as well as the onset of the documenting ban known as with the American Federation of Music artists in August 1942 slowed the Ellington band’s momentum. Struggling to record with touring curtailed, Ellington discovered a chance to return to expanded structure using the first of some annual recitals at Carnegie Hall on January 23, 1943, of which he premiered “Dark, Dark brown and Beige.” And he came back to the films, showing up in Cabin in the Sky and Reveille with Beverly. In the mean time, the record brands, stymied for strikes, began looking at their performers’ back again catalogs. Lyricist Bob Russell required Ellington’s 1940 structure “By no means No Lament” and arranged a lyric to it, creating “DO NOT GET Around Very much Anymore.” The Printer ink Spots obtained having a vocal edition (documented a cappella), and Ellington’s three-year-old instrumental documenting was also popular, achieving the pop TOP and number 1 in the lately instituted R&B graphs. Russell repeated his magic with another 1940 Ellington instrumental, “Concerto for Cootie” (a display for trumpeter Cootie Williams), creating “Perform Nothin’ Right up until You Hear from Me.” Almost four years after it had been documented, the retitled documenting strike the pop TOP and number 1 around the R&B graphs for Ellington in early 1944, while recently documented vocal cover variations also obtained. Ellington’s classic recordings became ubiquitous at the top from the R&B graphs during 1943-1944; he also strike number 1 with “A Slide from the Lip (Can Kitchen sink a Dispatch),” “Sentimental Female,” and “Primary Stem.” With the finish from the documenting ban in November 1944, Ellington could record a music he had made up along with his saxophonist, Johnny Hodges, arranged to a lyric by Don George and Harry Wayne, “I’m Realizing the Light.” The Wayne documenting went to number 1 in Apr 1945, but Ellington’s documenting was also a high Ten strike. With the finish from the battle, Ellington’s period as a significant commercial push on records generally came to a finish, but unlike various other big bandleaders, who disbanded because the golf swing era transferred, Ellington, who predated the period, simply continued touring, augmenting his reduced road revenues along with his songwriting royalties to help keep his music group afloat. Within a musical environment where jazz was veering from well-known music and toward bebop, and well-known music had been dominated by performers, the Ellington music group no longer got a place near the top of the company; but it held operating. And Ellington held trying more prolonged items. In 1946, he teamed with lyricist John Latouche to create the music for the Broadway musical Beggar’s Vacation, which opened up on Dec 26 and went 108 shows. And he composed his initial full-length background rating for an attribute film with 1950’s The Asphalt Jungle. The very first half of the 1950s was a hard period for Ellington, who experienced many workers defections. (Some of these musicians returned afterwards.) However the music group produced a major return in the Newport Jazz Event on July 7, 1956, if they kicked right into a edition of “Dimuendo and Crescendo in Blue” that present saxophonist Paul Gonsalves going for a lengthy, memorable single. Ellington appeared over the cover of your time newspaper, and he agreed upon a new agreement with Columbia Information, which released Ellington at Newport, the best-selling recording of his profession. Freed of the need of writing strikes and spurred from the improved time on the LP record, Ellington focused more on prolonged compositions for the others of his profession. His comeback like a live performer resulted in improved possibilities to tour, and in nov 1958 he undertook his initial full-scale tour of European countries. For the others of his lifestyle, he would be considered a active world traveller. Ellington made an appearance in and have scored the 1959 film Anatomy of the Murder, and its own soundtrack gained him three from the recently instituted Grammy Honours, for greatest efficiency by way of a dance music group, greatest musical structure of the entire year, and greatest soundtrack. He was nominated for an Academy Honor for his following rating, Paris Blues (1961). In August 1963, his stage function My People, a cavalcade of African-American background, was installed in Chicago within the Hundred years of Negro Improvement Exposition. In the mean time, needless to say, he continuing to business lead his music group in recordings and live shows. He turned from Columbia to Frank Sinatra’s Reprise label (bought by Warner Bros. Information) and produced some pop-oriented information that dismayed his followers but indicated he previously not abadndoned broad commercial dreams. Nor experienced he deserted his artistic dreams, as the to begin his group of sacred concerts, performed at Sophistication Cathedral in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA on Sept 16, 1965, indicated. And he still longed to get a stage achievement, turning once more to Broadway using the musical Pousse-Café, which opened up on March 18, 1966, but shut within days. 90 days later on, the Sinatra film Assault on the Queen, with an Ellington rating, opened up in movie homes around the united states. (His last film rating, for Transformation of Mind, made an appearance in 1969.) Ellington became a Grammy preferred in his old age. He gained a 1966 Grammy for greatest original jazz structure for “Initially, God,” section of his sacred concerts. His 1967 record ASIA Suite, inspired by way of a tour of the center and ASIA, won the very best instrumental jazz overall performance Grammy that 12 months, and he required home his 6th Grammy within the same category in 1969 for And His Mom Called Him Expenses, a tribute to Strayhorn, who experienced passed away in 1967. “New Orleans Suite” gained another Grammy within the category in 1971, as do “Togo Brava Suite” in 1972, as well as the posthumous The Ellington Suites in 1976. Ellington continuing to perform frequently until he was overcome by disease within the springtime of 1974, succumbing to lung cancers and pneumonia. His loss of life didn’t end the music group, which was bought out by his kid Mercer, who led it until his very own loss of life in 1996, and by way of a grandson. On the other hand, Ellington finally appreciated the stage strike he had often wanted once the revue Advanced Ladies, offering his music, opened up on Broadway on March 1, 1981, and went 767 performances. The countless celebrations from the Ellington centenary in 1999 shown that he stayed thought to be the major author of jazz. If that appeared something of the anomaly inside a musical design that stresses spontaneous improvisation over created structure, Ellington was talented plenty of to conquer the oddity. He published mainly for his music group, allowing his experienced players area to single within his compositions, and for that reason made a body of function that appeared more likely to help jazz enter the educational and institutional realms, that was quite definitely its direction by the end from the 20th hundred years. In that feeling, he foreshadowed the continuing future of jazz and may lay state to getting among its most important practitioners.

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#	Fact
1	Second cousin of the artist Romare Bearden.
2	Ellington was celebrated in Stevie Wonder's song "Sir Duke" (from "Songs in the Key of Life" (1976)).
3	His image is part the central design on the reverse of the District of Columbia 25¢ commemorative coin issued in 2009, as part of the USA's Statehood Quarters series. He is shown seated next to a piano, and the name "DUKE ELLINGTON" is engraved in the area above the piano keys.
4	He was awarded the Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6535 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
5	Interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY (Division 49, at Fir & Knollwood Avenues).
6	(July 16, 2008) Pictured in silhouette in a poster for the film Black and Tan (1929) on a 42¢ USA commemorative postage stamp celebrating Vintage Black Cinema.
7	Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. [1971]
8	Grandfather of actress/singer/dancer Mercedes Ellington.
9	Father of trumpeter/band leader Mercer Ellington, who assumed leadership of the Ellington band at his father's death.
10	Was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a national music fraternity.
11	Charter inductee of the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame. [1978]
12	Pictured on a 22¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Performing Arts series (97th anniversary of his birth). [April 1986]



Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
Let It Be Me	1995	writer: "C Jam Blues"
The Beatles Anthology	1995	TV Mini-Series documentary writer: "I'm Beginning to See the Light"
White Man's Burden	1995	writer: "Prelude To A Kiss"
Devil in a Blue Dress	1995	performer: "HY-AH SU", "MAYBE I SHOULD CHANGE MY WAYS" / writer: "HY-AH SU", "MAYBE I SHOULD CHANGE MY WAYS"
Forget Paris	1995	writer: "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Just Cause	1995	writer: "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good"
Miami Rhapsody	1995	writer: "I GOT IT BAD AND THAT AIN'T GOOD"
Bert	1994	TV Series "ECHOES OF HARLEM"
Baseball		TV Mini-Series documentary performer - 3 episodes, 1994 writer - 3 episodes, 1994
Bullets Over Broadway	1994	performer: "That Jungle Jamboree"
Corrina, Corrina	1994	performer: "IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING" / writer: "IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING"
Bottle Rocket	1994	Short performer: "Stevie" / writer: "Stevie"
The Hudsucker Proxy	1994	"In A Sentimental Mood" / performer: "Flying Home"
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music	1993	Documentary performer: "Ko-Ko"
Memory	1993	TV Movie music: "Pega'm amb el saxo i fes-me mal"
Short Cuts	1993	music: "I'm Gonna Go Fishin" 1959
Rising Sun	1993	writer: "SINGLE PETAL OF A ROSE"
Marraskuun harmaa valo	1993	writer: "Night Train"
Lipstick on Your Collar	1993	TV Mini-Series writer - 1 episode
Swing Kids	1993	writer: "IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING"
Malcolm X	1992	performer: "Arabesque Cookie" / writer: "Drop Me Off in Harlem", "Azure", "Arabesque Cookie"
Glengarry Glen Ross	1992	writer: "Prelude to a Kiss", "Daydream"
Prelude to a Kiss	1992	writer: "Prelude to a Kiss"
A League of Their Own	1992	writer: "In a Sentimental Mood"
White Men Can't Jump	1992	writer: "MOOD INDIGO"
The Mambo Kings	1992	performer: "In A Sentimental Mood" / writer: "In A Sentimental Mood"
Wild Blade	1991	music: "Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me" / performer: "El Gato"
The Addams Family	1991	"The Mooche"
Other People's Money	1991	writer: "Solitude"
En dag i oktober	1991	writer: "THE JEEP IS JUMPIN'"
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear	1991	"SATIN DOLL"
The Rocketeer	1991	writer: "IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD"
Oscar	1991	performer: "Rockin' in Rhythm" / writer: "Rockin' in Rhythm"
Flirting	1991	writer: "The Moochie" - as Ellington
Guilty by Suspicion	1991	performer: "I'M JUST A LUCKY SO AND SO" / writer: "I'M JUST A LUCKY SO AND SO"
He Said, She Said	1991	"I'm Just A Lucky So-and-So", "In A Sentimental Mood"
Alice	1990	writer: "Caravan" 1937 - as Edward Kennedy Ellington
Wild at Heart	1990	performer: "First Movement" / writer: "First Movement"
White Hunter Black Heart	1990	writer: "SATIN DOLL"
Räpsy & Dolly eli Pariisi odottaa	1990	writer: "Caravan"
Strike It Rich	1990	music: "Prelude to a Kiss" - uncredited
Valentina	1989	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Harlem Nights	1989	music: "Drop Me Off In Harlem", "The Gal From Joe's", "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing", "Sophisticated Lady" / performer: "Drop Me Off In Harlem", "Take The 'A' Train" / writer: "Black Beauty", "Mood Indigo"
The Fabulous Baker Boys	1989	writer: "Prelude to a Kiss", "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me", "Solitude" - as Edward Kennedy Ellington
When Harry Met Sally...	1989	writer: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
Bloodhounds of Broadway	1989	writer: "The Mooch"
Field of Dreams	1989	performer: "Lotus Blossom"
The Toxic Avenger Part II	1989	writer: "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing"
Full Moon in Blue Water	1988	music: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
La nuit Bengali	1988	writer: "East St-Louis Toodle-oo"
Let's Get Lost	1988	Documentary "Daydream", "In a Sentimental Mood"
Driving Me Crazy	1988	Documentary writer: "Ive Got To Be a Rug Cutter" - uncredited
Envoyez les violons	1988	writer: "C JamBlues"
Sunset	1988	performer: "Black And Tan Fantasy"
Biloxi Blues	1988	writer: "Solitude"
Dolly	1987	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Untouchables	1987	writer: "MOOD INDIGO"
In the Mood	1987	writer: "SOLITUDE"
Radio Days	1987	performer: "Take the 'A' Train" 1941
Royal Society Jazz Orchestra	1986	TV Special music: "Black and Tan Fantasy"
Näkemiin, hyvästi	1986	writer: "Caravan"
The Singing Detective	1986	TV Mini-Series writer - 3 episodes
Tough Guys	1986	music: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" - as Edward Kennedy Ellington
Miss Mary	1986	writer: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling	1986	writer: "Just Squeeze Me"
Buddy Rich and His Band: Channel One Suite	1985	writer: "Sophisticated Lady"
Kerouac, the Movie	1985	Documentary "I've Got the World On a String" / performer: "Jumpin' Pumpkins, "Creole Love Call" / writer: "Jumpin' Pumpkins, "Creole Love Call"
The Cotton Club	1984	lyrics: "Creole Love Call", "Mood Indigo" / music: "The Mooche", "Cotton Club Stomp #2", "Drop Me Off In Harlem", "Creole Love Call", "Ring Dem Bells", "East St.Louis Toodle-O", "Cotton Club Stomp #1", "Mood Indigo", "Daybreak Express Medley"
Maria's Lovers	1984	writer: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	1984	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Frances	1982	music: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Let's Spend the Night Together	1982	Documentary "Take The A Train"
Police Squad!	1982	TV Series 1 episode
Reborn	1981	"Mood Indigo"
The 35th Annual Tony Awards	1981	TV Special writer: "Rockin' in Rhythm"
Rough Cut	1980	writer: "Sophisticated Lady", "Satin Doll", "C Jam Blues", "Mood Indigo", "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good", "In a Sentimental Mood", "Prelude to a Kiss", "Caravan", "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" - uncredited
Série noire	1979	performer: "Moonlight fiesta"
The Muppet Show	1978	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Turning Point	1977	music: "Elingtonia"
Ecco noi per esempio...	1977	"Sofisticated Lady"
The Richard Pryor Show	1977	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Sonny and Cher Show	1976	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People	1976	TV Series music - 1 episode
Brother Can You Spare a Dime	1975	Documentary music: "Saddest Tale Blues" 1934 / performer: "Downtown Uproar" 1938 / writer: "Downtown Uproar" 1938
The Conversation	1974	music: "Sophisticated Lady" 1932
Teresa la ladra	1973	music: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" Never No Lament
England Made Me	1973	music: "IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING'
Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly	1973	TV Special writer: "I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues", "Rocks in My Bed", "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good", "Mood Indigo"
The Catcher	1972	TV Movie writer: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
Malcolm X	1972	Documentary writer: "The Mooch"
My Tongue Is -Quick!	1971	"My Old Flame", uncredited
The Mike Douglas Show	1970	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Adalen 31	1969	music: "Black and Tan Fantasy" - uncredited
Love You Madly: A Salute to Duke Ellington	1969	TV Movie writer: "Creole Love", "I'm Beginning to See the Light", "In a Sentimental Mood", "Lay-by", "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart", "Rockin' in Rhythm", "Sophisticated Lady", "C-jam Blues"
Darker Than You Think		performer: "Take the A Train", "Sophisticated Lady" / writer: "Sophisticated Lady" announced
Handicap	1968	Short performer: "My Funny Valentine"
Strictly Come Dancing	2016	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Jonathan Winters Show	1968	TV Series music - 1 episode
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change	2016	Documentary performer: "Angelica" / writer: "Angelica"
The Bell Telephone Hour		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 1967 writer - 1 episode, 1967
Manchester by the Sea	2016	writer: "I'm Beginning To See The Light"
Center Stage		TV Mini-Series music - 1 episode, 1967 performer - 1 episode, 1967 writer - 1 episode, 1967
Nature Photographs	2016	Short performer: "Take The A Train"
A la memoria del autor	1966	Short writer: "The Single Petal of a Rose"
Gotham		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2015 writer - 1 episode, 2015
The Danny Kaye Show	1966	TV Series music - 1 episode
Sommeren '92	2015	writer: "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
The Sammy Davis, Jr. Show	1966	TV Series music - 1 episode
Agent Carter	2015	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Shindig!	1965	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Fresh Dressed	2015	Documentary music: "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" / performer: "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
La revue des feuilletons	1963	TV Series short music - 1 episode
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia	2015	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show	1963	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Sharkskin	2015	arranger: "Main Stem" / writer: "Main Stem"
The Avengers	1962	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon		TV Series writer - 1 episode, 2014 music - 1 episode, 2014
Boccaccio '70	1962	writer: "Day Dream"
Christmas in Rockefeller Center	2014	TV Special music: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
All Night Long	1962	writer: "In A Sentimmental Mood", "Mood Indigo"
Boardwalk Empire		TV Series writer - 4 episodes, 2011 - 2014 performer - 2 episodes, 2014
Paris Blues	1961	music: "You Know Something?", "Battle Royal", "Bird Jungle", "What's Paris Blues?", "Mood Indigo" uncredited, "Autumnal Suite" uncredited, "Nite", "Wild Man Moore" uncredited, "Paris Stairs", "I Wasn't Shopping", "Guitar Amour", "A Return Reservation", "Paris Blues"
Cássia	2014	Documentary writer: "I Ain't Got Nothing But the Blues"
The Last Time I Saw Archie	1961	music: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
Manhattan		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2014 writer - 1 episode, 2014
Glenn Miller Time	1961	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Still	2014/II	performer: "Creole Love Call" / writer: "Creole Love Call"
Dante	1960	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The 50 Year Argument	2014	Documentary writer: "Mood Indigo"
Peter Gunn	1958-1960	TV Series writer - 3 episodes
The 68th Annual Tony Awards	2014	TV Special writer: "It Don't Mean a Thing"
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall		TV Series music - 1 episode, 1959 writer - 1 episode, 1958
Whiplash	2014	writer: "Caravan"
Timex All-Star Jazz Show		TV Series music - 2 episodes, 1957 - 1959 performer - 1 episode, 1959
Frauenherzen	2014	TV Movie writer: "Doo Uap, Doo Uap, Doo Uap" - uncredited
Jazz Party		TV Series writer - 2 episodes, 1958 music - 1 episode, 1958
No Kaddish in Carmarthen	2013	Short performer: "Take The A Train"
You Bet Your Life		TV Series music - 2 episodes, 1956 - 1958 writer - 1 episode, 1954
The Swing of Things	2013	Short performer: "Take the A Train"
The Frank Sinatra Show	1957	TV Series music - 1 episode
Hawaii Five-0		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2013 writer - 1 episode, 2013
The Lux Show	1957	TV Series writer - 1 episode
American Hustle	2013	performer: "Jeep's Blues" / writer: "Jeep's Blues"
The Nat King Cole Show	1957	TV Series music - 1 episode
Dancing with the Stars		TV Series 1 episode, 2013 writer - 3 episodes, 2005 - 2013 music - 2 episodes, 2009 - 2011
A Hatful of Rain	1957	music: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" - uncredited
American Horror Story	2013	TV Series performer - 1 episode
This Could Be the Night	1957	music: "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good" - uncredited
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	2012-2013	TV Series performer - 2 episodes
Stars of Jazz	1956	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Bi no tsubo		TV Series 1 episode, 2013 writer - 1 episode, 2013 music - 1 episode, 2013
The Bottom of the Bottle	1956	music: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" - uncredited
Paris à tout prix	2013	writer: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Show Time at the Apollo		TV Series performer - 3 episodes writer - 2 episodes music - 1 episode
L'écume des jours	2013	performer: "Fleurette Africaine" / writer: "Caravan", "The Mood to be Wooed", "Sophisticated Lady", "Fleurette Africaine", "Slap Happy" uncredited
Mood Indigo	1952	Short writer: "Mood Indigo"
42	2013	performer: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" / writer: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
Solitude	1952	Short writer: "Solitude"
The Vampire Diaries		TV Series music - 1 episode, 2012 performer - 1 episode, 2012
Sophisticated Lady	1952	Short writer: "Sophisticted Lady"
30 Rock	2012	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Deadline - U.S.A.	1952	music: "Mood Indigo" - uncredited
Three Vignettes	2012	Video short writer: "Jubilee Stomp"
Half Angel	1951	music: "Sophisticated Lady" - uncredited
Gambit	2012/I	writer: "East St. Louis Toodle Oo"
No Way Out	1950	music: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", "Sophisticated Lady", "In a Sentimental Mood" - uncredited
The Artist and the Model	2012	performer: "Caravan"
Adventures in Jazz		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 1949 writer - 1 episode, 1949
The Master	2012	performer: "Dancers in Love", "Lotus Blossom" / writer: "Dancers in Love"
Symphony in Swing	1949	Short arranger: "Frankie and Johnnie" / performer: "Frankie and Johnnie"
Ginger & Rosa	2012	performer: "Take the A Train"
Floor Show	1949	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Breaking Bad		TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2012 writer - 1 episode, 2012
Date with Duke	1947	Short performer: "Perfume Suite" - uncredited / writer: "Perfume Suite" - uncredited
American Idol	2012	TV Series music - 1 episode
Breakin' It Down	1946	Short writer: "Just a-Sittin' and a-Rockin'" - uncredited
Banda sonora	2012	TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Dark Corner	1946	music: "Mood Indigo" - uncredited
Friends with Kids	2011	writer: "Angelica"
People Are Funny	1946	"Every Hour on the Hour"
Late Show with David Letterman	2011	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Man from Oklahoma	1945	writer: "I'm Beginning to See the Light" - uncredited
So You Think You Can Dance		TV Series music - 2 episodes, 2009 - 2011 writer - 1 episode, 2005
War Comes to America	1945	Documentary music: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" - uncredited
L.A. Noire	2011	Video Game as Edward Kennedy Ellington, "Maybe I Should Change My Ways" / performer: "Maybe I Should Change My Ways"
The Mouse Comes to Dinner	1945	Short music: "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good", "Don't Get Around Much Any More" - uncredited
The Artist	2011/I	"Jubilee Stomp" / performer: "Jubilee Stomp"
Swingtime Holiday	1944	Short writer: "Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear From Me"
The Fairy	2011	performer: "Little Max", "Blues in orbit" / writer: "Little Max", "Blues in orbit"
So's Your Uncle	1943	music: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
Mildred Pierce		TV Mini-Series performer - 1 episode, 2011 writer - 1 episode, 2011
Cabin in the Sky	1943	performer: "Going Up" 1943 / writer: "Going Up" 1943
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place	2011	Documentary performer: "In A Sentimental Mood" / writer: "In A Sentimental Mood"
Reveille with Beverly	1943	performer: "Take the 'A' Train"
Martha Marcy May Marlene	2011	writer: "Sophisticated Lady"
Air Force	1943	writer: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" 1923 - uncredited
Mafia II	2010	Video Game "IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING" / writer: "IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING"
Don't Get Around Much Anymore	1943	Short music: "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
The Presence	2010	"Echoes of Harlem"
Harry Parry and His Radio Rhythm Club Septet	1943	Short writer: "I've Got It Bad And That Ain't Good"
Tournée	2010	writer: "Black and Tan Fantasy"
Bli-Bip	1942	Short music: "Bli-Blip"
The Pacific	2010	TV Mini-Series writer - 1 episode
Jam Session	1942	Short performer: "C-Jam Blues" / writer: "C-Jam Blues"
'Master Harold' ... And the Boys	2010	writer: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Ice-Capades	1941	music: "Sophisticated Lady" - uncredited
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me	2009	TV Movie documentary music: "Satin Doll" / performer: "Satin Doll"
The Shining Hour	1938	music: "Mood Indigo" 1930 - uncredited
The National Parks: America's Best Idea		TV Mini-Series documentary performer - 1 episode, 2009 writer - 1 episode, 2009
Underworld	1937	music: "It Don't Mean a Thing"
Up in the Air	2009/I	writer: "Mood Indigo" 1931 - as Edward Ellington
The Hit Parade	1937	lyrics: "I've Got to be a Rough Cutter" / music: "I've Got to be a Rough Cutter"
My Music: The Big Band Years	2009	TV Movie performer: "Take the 'A' Train" - uncredited
Roof Tops of Manhattan	1935	Short music: "Mood Indigo" 1930 - uncredited
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression	2009	Video documentary writer: "Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life", "I've Got Those Lost My Man Blues" - uncredited
Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life	1935	Short writer: "Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life"
He's Just Not That Into You	2009	writer: "Sophisticated Lady"
Vaudeville	1934/II	Short music: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" - uncredited
Eli Stone	2008	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Masks and Memories	1934	Short music: "Sophisticated Lady" - uncredited
Two Lovers	2008	writer: "Rockin' in Rhythm" 1931
A Bundle of Blues	1933	Short writer: "Lightnin'", "Rockin' In Rhythm", "A Bundle of Blues"
A Christmas Tale	2008	performer: "Fleurette africaine" African Flower, "Ad Lib On Nippon" / writer: "Fleurette africaine" African Flower, "Ad Lib On Nippon"
Advice to the Lovelorn	1933	music: "It Don't Mean a Thing If You Ain't Got That Swing" Uncredited
Grand Theft Auto IV	2008	Video Game performer: "Take the "A" Train"
Betty Boop's May Party	1933	Short music: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" - uncredited
Skins	2008	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Check and Double Check	1930	writer: "Harlem Speaks" 1930, "Old Man Blues" 1930 - uncredited
X Factor	2008	TV Series music - 1 episode
Black and Tan	1929	Short music: "Cotton Club Stomp" / performer: "Black and Tan Fantasy", "Black Beauty", "The Duke Steps Out", "Cotton Club Stomp", "Hot Feet" / writer: "Black and Tan Fantasy", "Black Beauty", "The Duke Steps Out"
Be Kind Rewind	2008	writer: "Solitude"
Rhythms	1929	Short music: "The Mooche" - uncredited
The Great Debaters	2007	writer: "Delta Serenade" - as Edward Ellington
American Masters		TV Series documentary music - 2 episodes, 2007 writer - 1 episode, 2007 performer - 1 episode, 2005
Melba Moore: Live in Concert	2007	Video writer: "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Great Performances	2007	TV Series music - 1 episode
Ocean's Thirteen	2007	writer: "Caravan" 1937
The Sopranos		TV Series writer - 3 episodes, 2007 performer - 1 episode, 2007
Ella	2007/II	Documentary short music: "IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING" / performer: "IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING"
Shanghai Kiss	2007	writer: "Acht O'Clock Rock Remix"
Does Your Soul Have a Cold?	2007	Documentary writer: "Solitude"
King of California	2007	writer: "In A Sentimental Mood inst"
African American Lives	2006	TV Mini-Series documentary writer - 3 episodes
Munich	2005	writer: "Prelude to a Kiss" - as Edward "Duke" Ellington
Rumor Has It...	2005	performer: "I'm Beginning To See The Light" / writer: "I'm Beginning To See The Light"
The White Countess	2005	music: "Mood Indigo" 1930
Prime	2005	performer: "IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD" / writer: "IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD"
Stranded in Canton	2005	Documentary writer: "Sophisticated lady"
Breakfast on Pluto	2005	writer: "Caravan" 1937
The Lost City	2005	performer: "Limbo Jazz" / writer: "Limbo Jazz"
Cold Case		TV Series performer - 2 episodes, 2004 - 2005 writer - 1 episode, 2004
Australian Idol	2004	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Independent Lens		TV Series documentary performer - 2 episodes, 2004 writer - 2 episodes, 2004
Melinda and Melinda	2004	music: "In a Mellow Tone" 1939, "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" 1942, "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" 1938 / performer: "Take The 'A' Train" 1941, "In a Mellow Tone" 1939, "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" 1938
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	2004	writer: "I'm a Just a Lucky So & So"
The Notebook	2004	writer: "Alabamy Home" 1937
Rosemary Clooney: Singing at Her Best	2004	Video short writer: "I'm Checkin' Out, Goom-bye"
Mona Lisa Smile	2003	writer: "I'm Beginning to See the Light"
Angels in America		TV Mini-Series performer - 1 episode, 2003 writer - 1 episode, 2003
Alejandro y Ana. Lo que España no pudo ver del banquete de la boda de la hija del presidente	2003	Video writer: "Sophisticated Lady"
The Matrix Revolutions	2003	writer: "I'm Beginning To See the Light"
The Blues		TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode, 2003 writer - 1 episode, 2003
The Human Stain	2003	music: "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good" 1941 / writer: "Day Dream" 1939
Bright Young Things	2003	writer: "Caravan"
Ben Webster	2003	TV Movie documentary writer: "In a Mellow Tone" - as Ellington
7th Heaven	2003	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Närvarande	2003	Documentary writer: "Ko-Ko", "Portrait of Bert Williams"
Race: The Power of an Illusion	2003	TV Series documentary 1 episode
Comedian	2002	Documentary writer: "Caravan"
Crossing Jordan		TV Series performer - 2 episodes, 2002 writer - 1 episode, 2002
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven	2002	Video Game writer: "The Mooche", "Caravan"
The Wire	2002	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Minority Report	2002	writer: "Solitude" 1934
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	2002	lyrics: "Mood Indigo" 1931 / music: "Mood Indigo" 1931 / performer: "Mood Indigo" 1931
Une affaire privée	2002	writer: "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good"
Hart's War	2002	writer: "Mood Indigo" - as Edward Ellington
Anouk - Lost Tracks	2001	Video writer: "Mood indigo"
Ocean's Eleven	2001	writer: "Caravan"
One Night with Robbie Williams	2001	TV Special documentary writer: "Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me"
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion	2001	music: "Sophisticated Lady" / performer: "Sophisticated Lady"
An American Rhapsody	2001	music: "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" 1945
Desaliñada	2001	Short writer: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Angel Eyes	2001	writer: "In A Sentimental Mood"
Chocolat	2000	writer: "Caravan"
The Legend of Bagger Vance	2000	performer: "Mood Indigo" / writer: "Mood Indigo"
Pollock	2000	performer: "It's Sad But True"
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells	2000	TV Movie music: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Yksityisetsivän tytär	2000	Short lyrics: "A Drum is a Woman" / music: "A Drum is a Woman"
The Yards	2000	music: "I'm Beginning to See the Light" 1944 - as Edward Kennedy Ellington
My Dog Skip	2000	writer: "I'm Beginning to See the Light"
Any Given Sunday	1999	writer: "I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT YOU"
The Green Mile	1999	performer: "Three Little Words"
Pitch People	1999	Documentary writer: "Mood Indigo"
Sweet and Lowdown	1999	music: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" 1931 / writer: "Caravan" 1936
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	1999	TV Movie writer: "Rent Party Blues"
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore	1999	TV Movie documentary performer: "DIMINUENDO IN BLUE & CRESCENDO IN BLUE" / writer: "DIMINUENDO IN BLUE & CRESCENDO IN BLUE"
Eyes Wide Shut	1999	music: "I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good" 1941
The Thirteenth Floor	1999	writer: "Caravan"
Life	1999/I	writer: "Drop Me Off in Harlem"
The Matrix	1999	performer: "I'm Beginning to See the Light" / writer: "I'm Beginning to See the Light"
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	1999	TV Series 1 episode
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy	1999	TV Series music - 1 episode
Fallen Arches	1998	writer: "Solitude" - as Ellington
It All Came True	1998	writer: "Mood Indigo", "Rockin' In Rhythm"
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg	1998	Documentary music: "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Living Out Loud	1998	writer: "Low Key Lightly", "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
Rounders	1998	performer: "Warm Valley" / writer: "Warm Valley"
Saving Private Ryan	1998	music: "Solitude" 1934
The Odd Couple II	1998	"Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
The Big Lebowski	1998	writer: "I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good"
Sphere	1998	music: "DON'T GET AROUND MUCH ANYMORE"
The Harmonists	1997	writer: "Creole Love Call"
Seven Years in Tibet	1997	performer: "Perdido"
The Big One	1997	Documentary performer: "Mississipi Moan" 1927 / writer: "Mississipi Moan" 1927
Double Tap	1997	performer: "One O'Clock Jump"
Hoodlum	1997	writer: "It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing"
Oz	1997	TV Series writer - 2 episodes
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula	1997	Documentary writer: "Black and Tan Fantasy"
Addicted to Love	1997	writer: "I'm Beginning to See the Light"
Ulee's Gold	1997	writer: "Sophisticated Lady"
Love Jones	1997	performer: "In a Sentimental Mood" / writer: "In a Sentimental Mood"
Metro	1997	performer: "THINGS AIN'T WHAT THEY USED TO BE"
The Mirror Has Two Faces	1996	writer: "In a Sentimental Mood"
Swingers	1996	writer: "I'm Beginning to See the Light"
Larger Than Life	1996	writer: "Just a Lucky So & So"

Music Department

Music Department

Title	Year	Status	Character
Trilogie De Tragedie	2016	musician
Nutcracker Sweeties	2006	TV Movie musical adaptation
Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Chaka Khan	2005	Video music: arranged "Take The 'A' Train"
Say Brother	1981	TV Series music - 1 episode
Change of Mind	1969	conductor
Paris Blues	1961	musician: piano - uncredited
The Asphalt Jungle		TV Series composer - 13 episodes, 1961 conductor - 1 episode, 1961
Anatomy of a Murder	1959	musician: piano - uncredited
Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z	1956-1958	TV Series featuring the music of - 2 episodes
Many Happy Returns	1934	musician: piano for 'Guy Lombardo'qv
Masks and Memories	1934	Short composer: song

Actor

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
Anatomy of a Murder	1959		Pie Eye (uncredited)
The United States Steel Hour	1957	TV Series	Narrator
Symphony in Swing	1949	Short	Duke Ellington
Cabin in the Sky	1943		Duke Ellington
Reveille with Beverly	1943		Orchestra Leader
Birth of the Blues	1941		Duke Ellington
The Hit Parade	1937		Duke Ellington
Belle of the Nineties	1934		Piano Player
Black and Tan	1929	Short	Duke Ellington

Composer

Composer

Title	Year	Status	Character
An Honest Buck	2013	Short completed
Talking Sticks: A Musical Journey	2014	Documentary
Change of Mind	1969
Assault on a Queen	1966
Paris Blues	1961
Anatomy of a Murder	1959
Holiday	1957	Documentary short
Salute to Duke Ellington	1950	Short

Self

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Mood Indigo	1952	Short	Himself
Solitude	1952	Short	Himself
Sophisticated Lady	1952	Short	Himself
V.I.P.'s Boogie	1951	Short	Himself
Songs for Sale	1951	TV Series	Himself
Kreisler Bandstand	1951	TV Series	Himself
Showtime, U.S.A.	1950	TV Series	Himself
The Faye Emerson Show	1950	TV Series	Himself
Salute to Duke Ellington	1950	Short	Himself
Texaco Star Theatre	1949	TV Series	Himself - Musician
Adventures in Jazz	1949	TV Series	Himself
Date with Duke	1947	Short	Himself
Upbeat in Music	1943	Documentary short	Himself - Band Leader
I Got It Bad & That Ain't Good	1942	Short	Himself
Jam Session	1942	Short	Himself - Piano
Flamingo	1942	Short	Himself - Bandleader
Hot Chocolate	1941	Short	Himself
Verdensberømtheder i København	1939	Short	Himself
Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life	1935	Short	Himself
Murder at the Vanities	1934		Himself (as Duke Ellington's Orchestra)
A Bundle of Blues	1933	Short	Himself
Hollywood on Parade No. A-9	1933	Short	Himself (uncredited)
America's Book of Secrets	2013	TV Series	Himself
Improvisation	2004		Himself
Jazz	2001	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Memories of Duke	1980	Documentary	Himself
Happy Days	1970-1976	TV Series	Himself
On the Road with Duke Ellington	1974	Documentary	Himself
Le grand échiquier	1973	TV Series	Himself
Iltatähti	1973	TV Series	Himself - Interviewee
3. November 1973	1973	TV Movie	Himself
This Is Your Life	1973	TV Series	Himself
Parkinson	1973	TV Series	Himself
Duke Ellington... We Love You Madly	1973	TV Special	Himself
Timex All-Star Swing Festival	1972	TV Special	Himself
The Dick Cavett Show	1971	TV Series	Himself
Music on 2	1970	TV Series	Himself
...And Beautiful II	1970	TV Movie	Himself - Pianist
The David Frost Show	1969-1970	TV Series	Himself
The Ed Sullivan Show	1959-1970	TV Series	Himself - Band Leader / Himself / Pianist / ...
The Red Skelton Hour	1970	TV Series	Himself - Guest Orchestra Conductor
Frost on Saturday	1969	TV Series	Himself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	1963-1969	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Joey Bishop Show	1967-1969	TV Series	Himself
Love You Madly: A Salute to Duke Ellington	1969	TV Movie	Himself
Newport Jazz Festival	1968	TV Special	Himself
NET Festival	1968	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Bell Telephone Hour	1959-1967	TV Series	Himself - Pianist / Himself / Himself - Band Leader
The Merv Griffin Show	1962-1967	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Bandleader
NET Playhouse	1967	TV Series	Himself
Center Stage	1967	TV Mini-Series	Himself
The Jackie Gleason Show	1966	TV Series	Himself
The Dean Martin Show	1966	TV Series	Himself
Noche del sábado	1966	TV Series	Himself
Tempo	1966	TV Series	Himself
The Strolling '20s	1966	TV Movie	Himself
Late Night Line-Up	1965	TV Series	Himself
The Twentieth Century	1964	TV Series documentary
That Regis Philbin Show	1964	TV Series	Himself
Freedom Spectacular	1964	TV Movie	Himself
Jazz 625	1964	TV Series	Himself - music performer
Duke Ellington: Live in Montreal	1964	TV Movie	Himself - Host / Piano
The Keefe Brasselle Show	1963	TV Series	Himself
Here's Edie	1962	TV Series	Himself
The Jack Paar Tonight Show	1962	TV Series	Himself
The Tonight Show	1962	TV Series	Himself - Musician
The Garry Moore Show	1962	TV Series	Himself
Here's Hollywood	1961	TV Series	Himself
Schlager-Raketen	1960		Himself
Sunday Showcase	1959	TV Series	Himself - Performer
The Patti Page Oldsmobile Show	1959	TV Series	Himself
Spectacular	1959	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Timex All-Star Jazz Show	1959	TV Series	Himself
Monitor	1958	TV Series documentary	Himself - 'Duke Ellington'
The Subject Is Jazz	1958	TV Series	Himself
Standard Oil New Jersey Presents Its 75th Anniversary Entertainment	1957	TV Movie	Himself
The Vic Damone Show	1957	TV Series	Himself
Person to Person	1957	TV Series documentary	Himself
Wide Wide World	1957	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show	1956	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Frankie Laine Time	1955-1956	TV Series	Himself
Rock 'n' Roll Revue	1955	Short	Himself
Music 55	1955	TV Series documentary	Himself
Show Time at the Apollo	1955	TV Series	Himself - Orchestra Leader
The Jackie Gleason Show	1955	TV Series	Himself - Guest Band Leader / Pianist
What's My Line?	1953	TV Series	Himself
Caravan	1952/II	Short	Himself

Archive Footage

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
My Music: Starlight Ballroom	2015	TV Movie	Himself
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown	2014	Documentary	Himself
Jazz Legends in Their Own Words	2014	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Nat King Cole: Afraid of the Dark	2014	Documentary	Himself
Jazz 625 at the BBC	2014	TV Movie
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.	2013	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
The Savoy King: Chick Webb & the Music That Changed America	2012	Documentary	Himself
When Seattle Invented the Future: The 1962 World's Fair	2012	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Black Wings	2012	Documentary	Himself
Prohibition	2011	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Michel Petrucciani	2011	Documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way	2010	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Io sono Tony Scott, ovvero come l'Italia fece fuori il più grande clarinettista del jazz	2010	Documentary	Himself
Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me	2009	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Jazz Giants of the 20th Century	2007	Video documentary	Himself
Reminiscing in Tempo	2006	Documentary	Himself
Duke Ellington Swinging at His Best	2005	Video	Himself
Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection	2005	Video	Himself
Great Performances	2005	TV Series	Himself
Harlem Renaissance	2004	Video documentary
My Kinda People	2003	TV Movie	Himself
The Blues	2003	TV Series documentary	Himself
Rhapsody in Black	2002	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Cinerama Adventure	2002	Documentary	Himself
It's Black Entertainment	2002	TV Special documentary	Himself
New York: A Documentary Film	1999	TV Series documentary	Himself (uncredited)
The Century: America's Time	1999	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
The Fifties	1997	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Omnibus	1994	TV Series documentary	Himself
Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame	1993	TV Special documentary	Himself
American Justice: Target - Mafia	1993	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Victor Borges Tivoli 150 år	1993	TV Movie documentary	Himself - Performer
American Experience	1991	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Very Best of the Ed Sullivan Show	1991	TV Movie documentary	Himself
That's Black Entertainment	1990	Documentary	Himself
All You Need Is Love	1977	TV Series documentary	Himself
Black Shadows on the Silver Screen	1975	TV Movie documentary	Himself (uncredited)
Black Music in America: From Then Till Now	1971	Documentary short	Himself
Jazz Ball	1956	TV Movie documentary	Himself

Won awards

Won awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1959	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Soundtrack Album, Background Score - Motion Picture or Television	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
1957	Film Award in Silver	German Film Awards	Best Film Score (Beste Filmmusik)	Jonas (1957)	· Winfried Zillig

Nominated awards

Nominated awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1969	Primetime Emmy	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Variety or Musical Program	NET Playhouse (1964)	· Ralph J. Gleason (producer) · Richard Moore (producer)
1962	Oscar	Academy Awards, USA	Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture	Paris Blues (1961)
1962	Grammy	Grammy Awards	Best Soundtrack Album or Recording or Score from Motion Picture or Television	Paris Blues (1961)



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#	Quote
1	New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillacs, and beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
2	If I'm the Duke, man, Peggy Lee is Queen.
3	To me, bebop is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
4	I don't believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the USA. you are referring to categories again.
5	I am a bandleader and I am a composer.
6	I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
7	I'm the world's worst disciplinarian. There's too much responsibility in being a leader! You have to have the dignity and authority of a leader, and that's all so heavy!
8	[in reply to a question about how he got the scar on his face] I have four stories about it, and it depends on which you like the best. One is a taxicab accident; another is that I slipped and fell on a broken bottle; then there is a jealous woman; and last is Old Heidelberg, where they used to stand toe to toe with a saber in each hand, and slash away. The first man to step back lost the contest, no matter how many times he'd sliced the other. Take your pick.
9	I'm a telephone freak, the greatest invention since peanut brittle.



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