Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz with 21 Activities

Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz with 21 Activities — page 1
NOTE TO READERS DURING DUKE ELLINGTON's first years as a young profes sional musician in Washington D C and then in New York City he was sometimes a member of other people's bands and also a bandleader himself In those early years of Duke's career his band went by several names and was also given different names by club owners and reviewers Some of those names include The Duke and His Serenaders The Serenaders The Duke and His Kentucky Club Serenaders The Washingtonians Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra and Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra The band also occasionally used pseudonyms to get around recording contracts Don't let all the changing names confuse you From the early 1930s on the band was almost always known as Duke Ellington and His