Saturday, May 25, 1974
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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World mourns
jazzman Duke
death of
Ellington
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composer, Billy Strayhorn, who
died in 1967.
When he was nearing 70, he
complained that audiences kept
insisting on his old favorites-
"Mood Indigo," "Sophisticated
Lady," "Do Nothin' Til You
Hear from Me," and so on. He
wanted to play his new works.
IN RECENT years, he poured
out a prodigious stream of or-
chestral pieces, tone poems,
sacred works, choral pieces,
movie, television and ballet
sres and several operas.
They were written in taxi-
cabs, restaurants, on buses, or
in his room after playing night
club dates or on his Bever-end-
ing world tours.
"I'm in contact every night
with people -- live people, lis-
tening to oy music. Wha tre -
son would I have to retire from
the road?" tie asked.
His music was written for his
band of virtuoso jazz musicians.
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Ann Arbor recalls
Duke's magic music
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Eva Jessye, a black musician
who worked intimately with
teorge Gershwin as vocal di-
rector of Porgy and Bess, re-
called the Duke as a young
man.
"I KNEW HIM before he was
famous, you know, when he
first cane to New York. He
brought me some of his stuff-
he wanted' to know what I
thotught of what he had."
Jessye, who spoke at testi-
monial dinner in the Duke's
honor last February, recalled
that his doctors had forbidden
him to play.
Mercer (Ellington's son) told
me -that he just wouldn't stop
going. I didn't think he looked
very well the last time I saw
him, but I didn't get a chance
to speak to himi-he was mob-
bed by people."
WUOM, a local radio station,
plins to rui a special hour-long
tribute to Ellington to he hroad,
cast at 11 a.m. and 11 p.m.
today.
"We are riuning two pro-
grams, one a Gtnther Schuller
tape on early compositions cibm-
piled under the auspices of the
Smithsonian Institution (Masic
of the Big Band Era), as well
as a special "Jazz Revisited"
program with ILazen Schumac-
her to be broadcutst at 5 p.m.,"
said station manager Neal Bed-
ford.
Lical jazz enthusiast Hank
Palley, who heard Ellington
back in the 30's in New York,
commented on the Duke's early
style.
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