Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo (A&E; early...
Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo (A&E; early Wednesday at 4 a.m., completed early Thursday at 4 a.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 the 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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