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Composer of the Week: Duke Ellington

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

(1899-1974)
With Geoffrey Smith. Often described as America's greatest composer, Duke Ellington was born in Washington DC 100 years ago this week. In 1923, he and a small band arrived in New York to try their luck. The next ten years saw him win national fame as musical director at
Harlem's Cotton Club and write such classics as Black and Tan Fantasy, Mood Indigo, Daybreak Express and It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't 't Got That Swing.
Producer Derek Drescher
See also Jazz Notes 11.30pm

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Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith.
Producer:
Derek Drescher
Source: Radio Times

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