The King Edward Ellington

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The King Edward Ellington
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First job selling peanuts at Washington Senators
games
three months before graduating Duke dropped out
of school
In 1917 Duke formed a group The Dukes Serenaders
March 11, 1919 Duke married Edna Thompson
In 1919 they also had a sun, Mercer Kennedy
Ellington
In 1923 he moved to New York and made his first
recording
In that year they also changed their band name to
Washington
In 1928 Ellington and Irving Mills sighed an
agreement so that Mills could produce his music
He died at the age of 75
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Ko-KO1939
Black Beauty 1928
Blue light1939
Compositions
Midnight Undergo 1959
Mooche 1929
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Birth April 29, 1824 in Washington D. C.
Parents Daisy Kennedy James Edward
Wife Edna Thompson
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