EditorialAmerican jazz conductor, composer, and pianist Duke Ellington sitting at the piano and looking down at the conductor's baton in his hands, 1930s. He is waring formal attire.
EditorialAmerican jazz musician Duke Ellington plays the piano for a group of servicemen and women, Hartford, Connecticut, 1942. Jazz vocalist Joya Sherrill, who sang with Ellington thorughout most of the 1940s, stands at center rear (she wears a pearl neckace)...