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11/23/2025

THELONIOUS MONK

(Mike)

11/23/2025

🎩 Duke Ellington (1899–1974)

The Composer Who Gave Jazz Its Dignity

Duke Ellington was not just a bandleader — he was one of America’s greatest composers, in any genre.
Across more than fifty years, he elevated jazz from nightclub entertainment to a sophisticated, orchestral art form, crafting a sound world full of elegance, swing, and emotional depth.

With his orchestra — a musical laboratory of unique timbres — Ellington wrote masterpieces like Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, In a Sentimental Mood, and the ambitious Black, Brown and Beige.
He had an uncanny ability to write “for the person,” shaping music around the individual voices of his musicians: Johnny Hodges’ velvet tone, Cootie Williams’ growl, Paul Gonsalves’ fire.

On stage and on record, Ellington embodied grace and charisma, reminding the world that jazz was beyond category — a living, breathing expression of the human spirit.

🎧 “I merely took the energy it takes to pout, and wrote some blues,” he once said — turning struggle into beauty.

11/11/2025

JOHN COLTRANE

(Mike)

11/08/2025

MILES DAVIS

(Mike)

11/08/2025

BILL EVANS

(Mike)

11/07/2025

WES MONTGOMERY

(Mike)

11/06/2025

CHARLES MINGUS

(Mike)

11/04/2025

John Coltrane

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