Duke Ellington Life Timeline 4

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The Ellington Band continues a run of incredible music, including Take the A-Train and Chelsea Bridge.

Duke wins the Downbeat Poll. He and the band record Sentimental Lady, Perdido, and Blue Mist.

Duke begins a series of annual concerts at Carnegie Hall. Ben Webster leaves the band.

Duke wins the Downbeat Poll for the second time. Cat Anderson joins the band.

Duke wins the Esquire Gold Award for bandleader and arranger. He also wins the Metronome Poll. Oscar Pettiford joins the band. Duke records Perfume Suite.

Duke Ellington by Barry Ulanov, hits the bookstores. Duke wins the Esquire Gold Award and the Downbeat Poll again. Russell Procope joins the band.

Duke records Billy Strayhorn's Progressive Gavotte.

Duke tours France and England. He wins the Downbeat Poll again, even though the band's popularity is on the decline. Ben Webster rejoins the Ellington band briefly before leaving again in 1949.

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Bibliography of the Duke Ellington Life Timeline

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Massagli, L (1983). Story on records from 1971 to 1974.
Luciano, Liborio Pusateri and Giovanni Volonte Massagli (1968). Story on Records from 1945 to 1974.
Gutman, B (1977). Duke - The musical life of DE.
Peterson, O and Ellington, D (2005). Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington. Piano Artist Transcriptions.
Bankston, J (2004). The Life and Times of DE. Masters of Music Series.
Memories of Duke (1984). VHS Video.
Ellington, E K (1976). Music Is My Mistress. Da Capo.
Shange, N and Nelson, K (2004). Ellington Was Not a Street.
Dance, S (2000). The World of DE.
Sokolow, F (1999). Great Jazz Standards of DE. Book and CD.

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