Carter Harman Collection of Interviews with Duke Ellington

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Carter Harman Collection of Interviews with Duke Ellington

1991 - 1991;1956,1964

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The collection captures Duke Ellington's thoughts on music, performing, composing, and his personal history in his own voice in approximately 20 hours of interviews conducted in 1956 and 1964.

3 Cubic feet (8 boxes)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 11662777

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

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Harman, Carter

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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974

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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...