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Duke Ellington
American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 April 1899
- Died
- 24 May 1974
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Place of death
- New York City
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Edward
- Spouse
- Edna Thompson
- Child
- Mercer Ellington
- Movement
- Harlem Renaissance
- Genre
- jazz, swing, gospel music, vocal music
- Occupation
- pianist, composer, autobiographer, jazz musician, conductor, bandleader, record producer, film score composer, music arranger, lyricist, jazz arranger, musician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Spingarn Medal, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Grammy Trustees Award, German Film Award for best original music, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, Songwriters Hall of Fame, honorary doctor of the Berklee College of Music
- archives at
- Library of Congress Music Division
- artist files at
- Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library
- birth name
- Edward Kennedy Ellington
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- described by source
- Brief Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Composers, Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians, Olomouc City Library regional database
- discography
- Duke Ellington discography
- educated at
- Armstrong High School
- end of work period
- 1974
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- instrument
- piano
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- synesthesia
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Alpha Phi Alpha, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Duke Ellington and his Washingtonians, The Oscar Pettiford Quartet
- name in native language
- Duke Ellington
- nickname
- The Duke, Dumpy
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score
- notable work
- Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me), It Don't Mean a Thing, Solitude, Black, Brown and Beige, Harlem, Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue
- place of burial
- Woodlawn Cemetery
- pseudonym
- Duke Ellington
- record label
- Columbia Records, Decca, Philips Records
- related category
- Category:Songs with music by Duke Ellington
- residence
- Duke Ellington House
- start of work period
- 1922
- topic has template
- Template:Duke Ellington
- topic's main category
- Category:Duke Ellington
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