Duke Ellington at the Ed Sullivan Show 1969 "Rockin' In Rhythm"

April, 6 1969 CBS telecast Ed Sullivan Show
Cootie Williams, Cat Anderson, Mercer Ellington, Willie Cook (t); Lawrence Brown, Buster Cooper (tb); Chuck Connors (btb); Russell Procope (cl,as); Paul Gonsalves, Harold Ashby (ts,cl); Harry Carney (cl,bar); Duke Ellington (p); Paul Kondziela (b); Rufus Jones (d)

[@Twentythousandlps]

These appearances reached the largest possible audience in America, so they were very welcome for Ellington. He played Rockin' in Rhythm in many tempos - this is the fastest.

[@JosefKKafka]

TOO fast, IMO

[@philpryor7524]

Again, wonderful, unique, superb, moving, special, tremendous, majestic.

[@kurtarmbruster]

God, what fun--and what a force of nature that band and that man were. God bless 'em!

[@realnaju]

Hermoso, gracias por compartirlo!!! 😍

[@ReminiscinginTempo]

De nada!

[@woffyboy46]

who is this Paul Kondziela kiddie on bass

[@WilliamSilva-ml5nw]

I think he also played with Buddy Rich for a while around this time.