Trending Searches:
Popular Movies:
Plus full 80,000+ Prime Video Titles and more!
No Prime?
START 30-DAY FREE TRIAL
AD
Duke Ellington
Birthday
1899-04-29Place of Birth
Biography
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
