Duke Ellington

Portrait of Duke Ellington, Washington, D.C., between 1938 and 1948 by Gottlieb, William P/Library of Congress.
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Duke Ellington Orchestra 1933 London Palladium

Duke Ellington and Django Reinhardt Aquarium New York, N.Y., ca. November 1946 (Photograph by William P. Gottlieb)

Duke Ellington and his band, c 1920 Collections of the Cultural Heritage Tourism Collection

Duke Ellington's hands playing piano Schreirer, Bernard Archives Center - NMAH

Duke Ellington, playing piano amidst two trombonists during an after-hours jam session, , New York 1941, by Gjon Mili

Duke Ellington 1969 by Bachrach, Fabian

Duke Ellington sitting next to white piano with hands clasped in lap. Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.). Archives Center - NMAH

Duke Ellingtion, Monterey festival 1970's

Duke Ellington Orchestra 1968

Portrait of Duke Ellington, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946] by Gottlieb, William P/Library of Congress.
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Duke Ellington Sacred Concert #4 [N.Y.C., perhaps] Archives Center - NMAH

Duke Ellington, Portrait, Paramount Theater, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1946 William P.Gottlieb.

Duke Ellington signing autographs in the rain in USSR : photoprint, 1971.by Boulat, Pierre

Duke Ellington jam session 1943, by Gjon Mili

Portrait of Duke Ellington, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948 by Gottlieb, William P/Library of Congress.
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Duke Ellington and His Orchestra - Graystone Ballroom, NYC 1933 Dennis Loren

Duke Ellington, Milano 1964

Duke Ellington Paris 1960 by Herman Leonard

Duke Ellington and Herman Leonard, 1958, Paris

Duke Ellington, at the piano surrounded by other jazz musicians, including Dizzy Gillespie (fore, 2L) on trumpet and behind him Mezz Mezzrow on clarine. Jam session at Gjon Mili’s studio loft. 1943 by Gjon Mili

Portrait of Duke Ellington, Howard Theater(?), Washington, D.C., ca. June 1946 by Gottlieb, William P/Library of Congress.
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Duke Ellington & the Washingtonians, Sonny Greer, Charlie Irvis, Bubber Miley, Elmer Snowden, Otto Hardwick and Duke Ellington, 1924

Duke Ellington, Big Band, Munich 1963 by Hans Bernhard

Duke Ellington and Mary Stallings Friday night at the Monterey Jazz Festival in September of 1965.

Duke Ellington sitting at a piano, surrounded by guests at a party at the Scurlocks' home. October 1956.Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)

Duke Ellington, Milano, 1966.

Duke Ellington with Peggy Lee onstage during the Ed Sullivan Show Archives Center - NMAH

Portrait of Ahmet M. Ertegun, Duke Ellington, William P. Gottlieb, Nesuhi Ertegun, and Dave Stewart, William P. Gottlieb's home, Maryland, 1941 by Gottlieb, William P/Library of Congress.
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Duke Ellington orchestra 1930's

Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald.

Duke Ellington, Cat Anderson, and Sidney De Paris, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946

Duke Ellington, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Rex Stewart, Cab Calloway, unidentified guest and Ivie, August 1939 jam session.

Duke Ellington and the Washingtonians Archives Center - NMAH

Duke Ellington, & Armstrong, Paris, 1960 by Herman Leonard)

Duke Ellington Orchestra.

Duke Ellington with a big smile, conducting while seated at the piano, Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, California, Sept 1970, taken by Margot E.Archives Center - NMAH

Duke Ellington, a famous jazz musician, poses with his piano at the KFG Radio Studio. KFG is Fitzsimons Army Medical Center's radio station.

Duke Ellington at piano, with dancer Honey Coles and Billy Strayhorn looking on, in the Stanley Theatre" by Teenie Harris (c. 1942-1943) © 2006 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Duke Ellington orchestra 1930's

Duke Ellington on guitar, Front row, back to camera with vie Anderson, Cab Calloway, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe at piano.

Duke Ellington, Chick Webb and Artie Shaw, 1937. Archives Center - NMAH

Duke Ellington, 1930'S

Sarra Valentino, Montage of Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday 1945/1950

Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Benny Goodman, 1948, New York, photographed by Herman Leonard

Duke Ellington composing at the piano by Sarra, Valentino Archives Center - NMAH

Duke Ellingtion, studio claxton 1970's

Duke Ellington Sister Rosetta,Lipps Page and Cab Calloway.

Duke Ellington Paris 1960 by Herman Leonard

Duke Ellington Cotton Club Orchestra

The Duke Ellington Band at the Cotton Club 1929