Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn wrote "The Queen's Suite" for Queen Elizabeth II who was presented with a single pressing of the recording, which was not commercially issued during Ellington's ...

Duke Ellington was one of the most popular and successful jazz ... an event which eventually resulted in the “Queen's Suite." Earlier in the year, his strange obsession with royalty had produced a ...

Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, there was the music of Duke Ellington. Born and raised in Washington, D.C. at the turn of the century and exposed early on to ...