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How Duke Ellington Took Jazz from the Back Yard to Buckingham Palace

Richard O. Boyer

Part 1 of Richard O. Boyer’s “The Hot Bach” Profile series about the jazz musician Duke Ellington and how he composes his songs, including “New World A-Coming.”