Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.
To play today in London, next week in Madrid and the week after that in Warsaw is a bit better than playing Newark and Baltimore and Philadelphia. I've been doing that for 20 years.
Jazz was uplifted by what I did.
My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
