Duke Ellington is a smooth-talking ladies' man and a zealous jazz musician. Duke spends most of his free time in The Birch Attic , making up new jazz songs, filled to the brim with heart, art, and sexual innuendo. Duke is also a very wise figure, having lived an entire very successful life.
Characters such as Nick and Jay turn to him for advice, especially when it comes to girls. Duke, having been a fruitful, polyamorous stud back in his day, knows a lot about the subject of women and how to please them.
It's interesting to note that Duke's ghost self resembles the young man he was from his 20's to his 40's as opposed to his 70's when he actually died. Perhaps this is because this was Duke's "hay day" in life and he would rather spend his afterlife in that form rather than a decrepit old bag of dogshit with no social life and no friends. Notably, Duke is still courting girls such as his current love interest, Whitney Houston. He has never accompanied or even mentioned his wife, Edna Ellington , who is currently deceased and would presumably be in the form of a ghost, living with him.
This is most likely because, in real life, Edna and Duke separated when the former felt nostalgic for her hometown, Washingon. That being said, this explains her absence in the series. Despite Duke's delightful demeanor, he has expressed on a number of occasions his deep-rooted and well hidden melancholy and crushing depression when it comes to the fact that he's dead. In " Ejaculation ", Duke told Nick that the new song he was making was a musical masterpiece that would never be heard by the world and then added "Death is so profoundly sad.
Deep down, Duke battles with an occasional stream of misery over his death but whenever he does, he usually shoves these feelings down and hides them behind a fake plastered smile. Sometimes, he can't bottle up his emotions anymore. In " My Furry Valentine ", Duke broke down crying in the middle of the gym, moaning and griping over the convoluted love triangle he was forced into with the ghosts of Whitney Houston, Nina Simone , and Burt Reynolds and seemed especially hurt by the fact that nobody loves him.
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Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Among the younger generations, Ellington was both a symbol of the traditional modes of jazz music and the finest example of how to transcend those modes. In his more than fifty years as a professional musician, Ellington had been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, awarded a doctor of music degree from Yale University, given the Medal of Freedom, and, most importantly, built the foundations from which much of the best American music consequently grew.
Skip to main content Skip to footer site map. December 12, Early Career Born in Washington D. Working with Billy Strayhorn In , Billy Strayhorn joined the band as an arranger, composer, and sometimes pianist. The city of New York gave him a prize and Yale University awarded him a doctor of music degree in ; Morgan State and Washington universities also gave him honorary degrees that year.
In he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Ellington continued to compose and perform until his death from lung cancer on May 24, , in New York City.
His band, headed by his son Mercer, survived him, but as Phyl Garland of Ebony magazine writes, the elder Ellington will always be remembered for "the daring innovations that came to mark his music—the strange modulations changing from one key to another built upon lush melodies that ramble into unexpected places, the unorthodox untraditional construction of songs.
Ellington's legacy is that he remains one of the greatest talents in all of jazz, a remarkable feat considering the history of jazz is packed with legendary names. His influence over musicians is as important today as it was during Ellington's time. Ellington, Edward Kennedy. Music is My Mistress. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, , revised edition Hasse, John Edward.
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