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Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo (A&E; Saturday...

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Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo (A&E; Saturday at 7 and 11 p.m.) Not a great documentary, but certainly a great subject: jazz’s preeminent bandleader-composer Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington, whose astonishingly fertile career is followed from childhood to Cotton Club, world fame and his death in 1973. That death was sadder than we knew: Beset by sorrows and tax problems, Ellington struggled to keep his band solvent and together.

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