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Duke Ellington Biography
Born: April 29, 1899
Washington, D.C.
Died: May 24, 1974
New York, New York
African American composer, band leader, and pianist
Duke Ellington is considered by many to be one of America's most brilliant jazz composers (writers of music) of the twentieth century.
Ellington's classics include "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," "Mood Indigo," and "I Let a Song Get Out of My Head."
Early life and career
On April 29, 1899, Edward Kennedy Ellington was born in Washington, D.C., to James Edward and Daisy Ellington.
With his father, a Methodist, and his mother, a Baptist, Ellington's upbringing had strong religious influences. An artistic child, Ellington passed up an art scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in order to devote his time to his first love: music, specifically the piano.
By the age of fourteen, Ellington had written his first two
