Portrait of Otto Hardwicke (Podcast #19-010)

Ellington Reflections · Jun 3, 2019

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“The amazing thing about [Duke Ellington] is that the language, the slant, everything, it’s all acquired. It didn’t rub off from someone else, and it wasn’t a legacy, either. He went inside himself to find it. He’s an only, that’s for sure. They threw away carbons.”

-Otto Hardwicke

Otto Hardwicke

Otto Hardwicke’s autograph

Publicity photograph of the Duke Ellington reed section. Top – Johnny Hodges – alto sax, Barney Bigard – tenor sax…