Conductor, composer and pianist Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
In the programme DUKE ELLINGTON (part 183) you will listen to recordings from 1952 of a concert on 22 March at the Crystall Inn in Salem, Oregon and on 29 April at the Armory, in Yakima, Washington State.
Source: D.E. and his Orchestra. First Annual Tour of the Pacific Northwest, Spring 1952. (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings LC 9628).
