Hints and tips:
...I particularly like the third — written on Ellington’s deathbed in tribute to Martin Luther King....
...The last music I downloaded was a track called “Sarah’s Song” by my son Ricky Hil. It brings me some truly nostalgic feels....
...I loved the live jazz supper club scene, which stretches from JoJo Restaurant and Bar, one of the vestiges of the U Street Corridor where Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday once played, to the Blues Alley...
...The composer had originally planned Three Black Kings as a tribute to Martin Luther King, and it is the final gospel-inflected movement dedicated to the civil rights leader that really rollicks....
...He was born Werner Stipetic 64 years ago but abandoned his Croatian mother’s name for Herzog, which means duke in German, “like Duke Ellington. My nom de guerre .”...
...The story is woven around the riots that erupted the night Martin Luther King was killed by a sniper’s bullet in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4 1968....
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