ELLINGTON, EDWARD KENNEDY (DUKE
). Jazz pianist/Composer ( in Washington, D.C.; in New York, New York). He came from a musical family: his mother played piano by note
, and his father played piano by ear.
He began piano study when he was about six years old with a local teacher, Miss Clinkscales. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Washington, D.C., where he came under the tutelage of
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