Felix Grant Collection, [sound recordings]

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Felix Grant Collection, [sound recordings]

1935-1985

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep841f87bf3-2e7e-45c3-99fb-f2da7e5cd921

Collection consists of 128 albums featuring the music of Duke Ellington, spanning some 50 years of Ellington-based releases.

4.3 Cubic feet (6 boxes)

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11662619

National Museum of American History (U.S.). Archives Center

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Grant, Felix, 1918-1993

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h52j11 (person)

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...