Duke Ellington Collection, 1944-1973

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Duke Ellington Collection, 1944-1973

1944-1973

https://findingaids.library.unt.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=832

The collection consists of one box of music manuscripts and dye-line copies of music by Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Cat Anderson, Lou Carter, and Paul Gonsalves, including a 1-page autograph music manuscript in Ellington's hand of "Get It Over."

1 box

eng, Latn

University of North Texas. Music Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11641473

University of North Texas. Music Library

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Hodges, Johnny, 1907-1970

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68t5gdn (person)

Jazz saxophonist....

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m43ks8 (person)

Duke Ellington (b. Edward Kennedy Ellington, April 29, 1899, Washington, DC–d. May 24, 1974, New York, NY) was a composer, pianist, and jazz orchestra leader. He began piano lessons at 7 and wrote his first composition, "Soda Fountain Rag", in 1914. Ellington became a more serious piano student as a teenager after hearing poolroom pianists in Washington, DC. Ellington moved to Harlem, ultimately becoming part of the Harlem Renaissance in the early 1920s. He began a regular booking at the Cott...