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Portrait of Mercer Ellington, Part II (Podcast #24-004)
“[Duke Ellington] has set forth a restlessness, a music that has made for progress over three decades. Devoting myself to the things he has come to represent, doing what I can to enlarge on such a solid basis, I fell that I can perpetuate ‘the tradition,’ and eventually find myself.” – Mercer Ellington, 1958
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The recordings heard on this podcast episode:
Messy Bessie / She’s Got Blues for Sale
Recorded 18 March 1946, New York City…
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