His two most famous works are only the tip of the iceberg…
Jazz
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He pioneered “free jazz” and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
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Duke Ellington is one of the best known figures in jazz history. But did you know he was a movie star, too?
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On a sweltering day in July 1959, thousands of mourners gathered to pay tribute to one of the most influential musical artists of the 20th century. Among the pallbearers were …
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If you know the name Vince Guaraldi, you probably associate it with one iconic piece of music.
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Happy birthday to the honey-voiced legend.
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Twenty years before Etta James made “At Last” her signature song, another artist recorded it for the first time. It was Glenn Miller, pioneer of big band music.
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How one Sandy Hook father is paying tribute to his slain daughter.
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Keyboardist Billy Preston could play it all—gospel and rock, classical and punk, show tunes, country, blues and funk—and he did just that, either on his own or alongside some of …
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He was known as the “Bronze Buckaroo” in a series of all-black 1930s Westerns.