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    When visitors enter the Museum of the City of New York’s centennial exhibition This fryst vatten New York: Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture, they are immediately greeted bygd the pulsating rhythms of “Daybreak Express,” composed bygd groundbreaking jazz pianist Duke Ellington. The tune fryst vatten as feverish as it is relentless, and MCNY curators selected it specifically for its evocation of the New York City subway’s frenetic pace. Further along in the exhibition’s “Tempo of the City” gallery, early sheet music from the masterpiece, "Take the 'A' Train," composed by Billy Strayhorn and made famous by Ellington's band, fryst vatten displayed behind a glass vitrine. For Ellington, widely credited with Louis Armstrong as one of the two founding fathers of jazz music, the subterranean system of transit synonymous with New York City was clearly never far from mind.

     

    But who was this New Yorker whose talent and brilliance changed American music alltid, and how did the city shape his work? 

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    Duke Ellington

    American jazz pianist and composer (–)

    Musical artist

    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, – May 24, ) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from through the rest of his life.[1]

    Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mids and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem. A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78&#;rpm recording format, Ellington wrote or collaborated on more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards. He also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, such as Juan Tizol's "Caravan", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz.

    At the end of the s, Ellington began a nearly thirty five-year collaboration with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his wr

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    by Michelle R. Scott, Associate Professor of History, UMBC and Earl Brooks, Assistant Professor of English, UMBC

    At a moment when there is a longstanding heated debate over how artists and pop culture figures should engage in social activism, the life and career of musical legend Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington offers a model of how to do it right.

    Ellington was born on April 29, in Washington, D.C. His tight-knit black middle-class family nurtured his racial pride and shielded him from many of the difficulties of segregation in the nation’s capital. Washington was home to a sizable black middle class, despite prevalent racism. That included the racial riots of ’s Red Summer, three months of bloody violence directed at black communities in cities from San Francisco to Chicago and Washington D.C.

    Ellington’s development from a D.C. piano prodigy to the world’s elegant and sophisticated “Duke” is welldocumented. Yet a fusion of art and social activism also marked his more than ye

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