Duke Ellington > Solitude
Composed by Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange & Irving Mills

Not being particularly a big band fan, and stereotyping much too easily without enough information, I never gave Ellington a tumble. Until I got older and wanted quieter music in my diet. This whole album turned around my Duke-ness.

(By the way, I realize it’s ridiculous to characterize Ellington as merely a Legend of Swing, but I couldn’t figure out anything else that would be more appropriate, except maybe Legend of Jazz. And almost every jazzbo here would qualify for that too.)

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