Duke Ellington: The Duke Plays Ellington (Vinyl LP)

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Vinyl LP pressing. The Duke Plays Ellington is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington featuring trio sessions recorded for the Capitol label in 1953. Now available as a single LP on standard weight vinyl in celebration of Capitol Records' 75th anniversary. Duke Ellington was a composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years. Often collaborating with others, Ellington wrote more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, with many of his works having become standards. In a Sentimental Mood, Things Ain't What They Used to Be, Reflections in D, Who Knows?, Melancholia, All Too Soon, Prelude to a Kiss, B Sharp Blues, Passion Flower, Janet, Retrospective, Dancers in Love