90.3 WCPN ideastream®: The Duke Ellington Quarter

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The Duke Ellington Quarter

Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Topics: Arts, Education
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On April 29, 1999, Duke Ellington’s centennial birthday celebration was monumental not only in Cleveland, but world wide.  So how do you top that celebration on the
110th birthday of arguably jazz music’s greatest ambassador ever? ideastream® music director Bobby Jackson gives us the story and it’s on the money. 

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