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"a glass of hot water, no tea or coffee" me thinking WOW, this guy is committed to being healthy. Immediately followed by "baked potato and steak for breakfast" well damn, that sounds delicious.

I'm so used to YT and its seemingly endless videos. But just being able to see this so easily, it is actually miraculous and deserves a moment of reflection.

Amazing footage I didn't catch the name of the song they were playing at the studio at 23:30...anybody make it out? Cheers and thanks for the upload!

Hi Mr. T ! You taught this today in class! Sadly, I can't say my name since this is social media, but Im glad that I could find your channel!

Cool!

If someone was to ask me how I would describe the 20th century I could only say Duke Ellington.

Duke has always been one of my favorite pianists, composer, and band leader. But I never really thought that much about him as a person, besides the struggles he lived through in his world, but this was a great insight into him that I'm glad to know about.

Pretentious

Duke had swing. You can’t teach that, you have it or you don’t. This composition particularly speaks to my soul. This is music. 46:01

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How grateful I am that a documentary (however brief) exists showing Duke going about his near-daily routine of performing, resting, reflecting, and composing while globe-trotting with that wonderfully talent band of his. He was truly one of the twentieth century's great musical minds, lending to American popular music a sophistication, depth, nuance, and verve that it had before been lacking, so making a proper lady out of the rough-hewn girl called Jazz and giving notice to the stodgy and pedantic classicists of Europe that a new cultural current was springing forth from Harlem which was destined to change the world. Imagine if there was a film documenting firsthand the lives of other bona fide geniuses like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, or Chopin!

I saw the playwright August Wilson on the street once. He was headed to his usual writing spot, a coffee shop.

April 29, 2024 - the 125th anniversary of the birth of Duke Ellington.

This is what genius looks like, what genius sounds like, what genius is.

It’s a pleasure to read so many comments by people who have been as inspired by Ellington as I have been.

23:30 Rondolet - Ellington one of a kind

0:03 let The Soundtrack Begin

24:43 Totally crazy, even if you listen to today's best big bands, they don't swing anywhere near as much as Ellington or Basie.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤AN INSPIRATION!!! 💋💋💋🎵

Satin Doll is one of my favorite tunes to try and practice on my keyboard. I've always said that Duke was a compositional genius. He did things that I dream of doing.

Billy Strayhorn wrote "Satin Doll", "Take the "A" Train" and many other "Ellington" songs that he did not get full credit or royalties from in his lifetime. A good biography on Duke Ellington is Terry Teachout's "Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington" - very thorough.

People should be aware that Ellington had to travel if he was to keep his band, which cost money. If he wanted to stop he had plenty of money and could have performed much less. He apparently preferred to be on the road with "the kids in the band" as he liked to call them.

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What classical pieces are used for Andante, Adagio and Allegro? in the part of the lesson where it says “click in one of the tempo buttons to view examples of each of them”

Where is my hot water?!

Trumpet Tune by Henry Purcell is my favourite 1:46

What happened to American culture?

Duke is at Jazz what Beethoven is at Classical. The Top.

53:56 Best Version of Take the A Train. Duke was 68 years old. Want to play like that when I'll be that age !

pure magic and i love it

wow

What the music in the 15:30?

Потрясающе! Дюк - олицетворение благородства и одухотворенности!

It's most probably a blessing to have career songs.

- c'est Colin, dit Isis. Colin je vous présente Chloé. Colin avala sa salive. Sa bouche lui faisait comme du gratouillis de beignets brûlés. - Bonjour! dit Chloé... - Bonj... êtes-vous arrangée par Duke Ellington? demanda Colin... Et puis il s'enfuit, parce qu'il avait la conviction d'avoir dit une stupidité. Boris Vian, L' Ecume des Jours. ..

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Thanks for the upload!

Just where was his hot water?

An icon in the American canon.

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Ah! The Great Duke Ellington 👏👏👏Wish my Dad was around to see this documentary of his favourite musician... He would have been so over joyed😍💖🎶🎵🎼

IN 1969 I COOKED A HOMEMADE CHILI, AND MY WIFE BABY SON & I BROUGHT IT TO BEN WEBSTER'S APARTMENT IN AMSTERDAM HOLLAND.........AT SOME POINT THAT NIGHT I PLAYED A CADENZA ON A NEW RECORDING THAT I RECENTLY CUT (THE TUNE WAS SIDNEY BECHET'S "LA PETIT FLEUR") BEN APPARENTLY LIKED IT SO MUCH, THAT HE REPLACED THE NEEDLE ABOUT 100 TIMES.....THEREAFTER, BEN ASKED ME IF I'D LIKE TO PLAY WITH DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS BAND....WHEN I ANSWERED AFFIRMATIVELY, BEN WENT TO HIS PHONE AND CALLED DUKE AT HIS HOME IN NEW YORK........SADLY, FOR ME, DUKE WAS NOT HOME.........AND THAT'S AS FAR AS IT WENT FOR ME! I'D BE LYING IF I SAID THAT I HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT AT LEAST 500 TIMES IN THE LAST 50+ YEARS!😭

The greatest.

13:20 I just found out I have at least one thing in common with Duke Ellington.... I too am a caffeine lightweight.

29:40 Soda Fountain Rag

25:36 Duke groovin

23:30 start recording of Rondolet