Duke Ellington is my favorite musician of all time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference

Marsalis, despite his wish to be our day's Duke Ellington, is more like our Leonard Bernstein — which I mean as no small compliment.    From Wordnik.com.  [X Jazz] Reference

It also doesn't hurt that The Ellington is a beautiful space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abstract Gourmet] Reference

Ltd. ( "Ellington"), an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

Ellington furnished 35 men who went out in Company F.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster] Reference

The man Duke Ellington called the maharaja of the piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jazz Piano Master Oscar Peterson Dies] Reference

This Sunday marks the birth of jazz legend Duke Ellington.    From Wordnik.com.  [On His Birthday, a Nod to Duke Ellington] Reference

ELLIOTT: How does Ellington inform you as a composer today?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Jazz Guitar Legend: Alive, Live and 75] Reference

I mean, they dont say the Duke Ellington Men in Jazz Festival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Lou Williams: A Centennial Celebration] Reference

HANSEN: Billy Strayhorn first met Ellington in Pittsburgh in 1938.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Ellington Took 'The A Train'] Reference

In 1848, the same parties built the Ellington, of 185 tons, which Capt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference

STEVE INSKEEP, host: Oh, you hear this song and you think Duke Ellington.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Lush Life,' a Self-Portrait in Song] Reference

Here she is in a 1935 Duke Ellington film when she was barely 20 years old.    From Wordnik.com.  [New CD Set Celebrates Billie Holiday] Reference

Ellington said he got the endorsement of fire, rescue and police officials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince William County rejects Park Authority plan to buy land for Hellwig Park] Reference

Now, here's Ellington himself, leading the band for a Dutch audience in 1958.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jazz Greats Return to Glory on DVD] Reference

After several days, Ellington brought witnessess to prove F. to be his slave.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18] Reference

He cried some more, sat down, and ended the set with an uptempo Ellington number.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Elliptical Is New Again] Reference

CONAN: Well, let me ask you, though, did Ellington and Strayhorn test that thesis?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composer Gets His Due] Reference

Ellington had set his own standard in terms of what was good and what was not good.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Jazz Guitar Legend: Alive, Live and 75] Reference

But I always felt that Ellington was very effusive in his praise of Billy Strayhorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composer Gets His Due] Reference

And Lionel Hampton at that time was bigger than Duke Ellington, Basie, and Louis Armstrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q: The Legendary Quincy Jones] Reference

"Well, it sure ain't good," I said, echoing the Duke Ellington-Paul Francis Webster standard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norm Bladdon, Private G.I.] Reference

Ellington finished with 122 yards on 12 carries, while Harper recorded 102 yards on 9 carries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purrrrty Good] Reference

Tatum has never joined the pantheon of jazz greats like Armstrong, Ellington, Parker and Davis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Tatum: A Talent Never to Be Duplicated] Reference

Of the 11 tunes on the album, Moran wrote eight (the others are by Byard, Rivers and Ellington).    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Elliptical Is New Again] Reference

Talk about your interaction and your meeting and your involvement with the great Duke Ellington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meet Mulatu Astatke, Godfather Of Ethio Jazz] Reference

NORRIS: Now, while we're in New York, I wonder if we can talk a little bit about Duke Ellington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcus Roberts: 'Playing The History Of Jazz'] Reference

Mr. HAJDU: And Ellington let Strayhorn in in his music in a way that he never let anybody else in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billy Strayhorn: Jazz Composer Gets His Due] Reference

Not quite as well known as Edward “Duke” Ellington but among musicians, regarded as wellington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Women] Reference

Duke Ellington led on the piano and trumpeter Ray Nance would play the best-known solo of his career.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Ellington Took 'The A Train'] Reference

Ellington brought in Strayhorn and son, Mercer Ellington, who weren't members of ASCAP, to create a new catalogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Ellington Took 'The A Train'] Reference

Now everyone can hear the news: "Portraits by Ellington" is just out, the first in a series of live recordings from Lincoln Center.    From Wordnik.com.  [HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND] Reference

Strayhorn used the directions, take the A train to Sugar Hill in Harlem to show Ellington that he could write a song about anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Ellington Took 'The A Train'] Reference

He was "connected in so many ways with nearly all the greatest jazz of the period," from Ellington to the hard bop of Cannonball Adderley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Chasin’ the Trane] Reference