Duke Ellington - Take The A Train 🎹

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Segment from the film 'Reveille' with Beverly, 1943. The song was composed in 1939. 🎷
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- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gleason called him "America's most important composer".

Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote or collaborated on more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington

[The Roux Comes First]

1. Nothing Short of "Fabulous"!

[surfered]

2. My father loved Duke Ellington.

[Blue Owl]

3. And the Canadian version -- Take the Train, Eh?

[LTG]

4. One of the great musical experiences of my life

Watching Duke Ellington and his Orchestra play “Take the A Train”, along with concert full of his other hits, live. They were set up in the orchestra pit of the Seattle Opera House and I was sitting 3 rows away from the piano.

What a show, what a musical genius, what a treasure, what a gentleman.

Have always been a big fan.