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Timeline of Duke Ellington Life 5 - Timeline Help
Timeline of Duke Ellington life part five of five from 1950 to 1974 at Timeline Help.
- 1950
- 1951
- 1956
- 1957
- 1959
- 1961
- 1962
- 1963 - 1971
- 1973
- 1974 | The Ellington Band tours Europe.
Johnny Hodges, Sonny Greer, Tyree Glenn and Lawrence Brown all leave the band, and Clark Terry and Louie Bellson become new members.
The Duke Ellington Orchestra performs at the Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island. Duke went back to Columbia Records.
Duke does a special for CBS TV entitled A Drum is a Woman.
Duke writes and records the film score for Anatomy of a Murder. The film is directed by Otto Preminger.
Duke and Louis Armstrong team up to record together. Duke and Count Basie record For the First Time.
Duke records with John Coltrane.
Duke traveled extensively during this period, visiting India, the Middle East, Japan, Mexico , the Soviet Union and Latin America. In 1968, Duke received the Congressional Medal of Freedom from President Richard Nixon in honor of his 70th birthday.
Duke wrote Music is my Mistress.
Duke Ellington dies on May 24 of cancer in New York, at the age of 75. | Timeline of Duke Ellington Life 5 1 2 3 4
| Bibliography of the Timeline of Duke Ellington Life Ellington, M (1979). DE in Person, An Intimate Memoir. A Da Capo.
Stwertka, E (1994). Impact Biography.
Ken, R (1990). Jazz Composer.
Travis, D (1996). DE Primer.
George, D R (1983). Sweet Man, the Real DE.
Timner, W E (1979) Ellingtonia, Recorded Music of DE and His Sidemen.
Lambert, G E. Kings of Jazz.
Tucker, M (1995). DE Reader.
Ellington, D (1999). The 100th Anniversary.
DeVeaux, S (2005). DE Reader. An article from Notes.
Ellington and Duke (1979). The Genius.
Ellington and Duke (1985). The Great Music.
Lavezzoli, P (2002). King of All, Sir Duke, Ellington and the Artistic Revolution. |
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