Duke Ellington Oral History Project
name: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution
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content: Greenlee, Marcia (oral historian)
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content: Willard, Patricia
label: Names
content: Duke Ellington Orchestra
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content: Aasland, Benny
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content: Babs, Alice
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content: Bell, Aaron
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content: Bellson, Louis
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content: Boatwright, Ruth Ellington, 1915-2004
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content: Bolling, Claude
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content: Bridgers, Aaron
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content: Burrell, Kenny
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content: Carneiro, Luis
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content: Celley, Al
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content: Cohen, Oscar
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content: Cole, Maria
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content: Cook, John
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content: Cooper, Buster
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content: Courtney, Shirley
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content: Dance, Helen Oakley, 1913-2001
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content: Dance, Stanley, 1910-1999
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content: Davis, Kay
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content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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content: Ellington, Mercer Kennedy, 1919-1996 (musician)
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content: Granz, Norman
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content: Hamilton, Jimmy
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content: Jeffries, Herb
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content: Jones, Herbie
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content: Jones, Max
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content: Kerr, Brooks
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content: Lamb, John
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content: Lowe, Arnold "Jim"
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content: McCuen, Brad
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content: Roche, Betty
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content: Sanders, John
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content: Sherrill, Joya
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content: Szterenfeld, Alejandro
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content: Terry, Clark
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content: Udkoff, Evelyn
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content: Udkoff, Robert, 1918- (businessman)
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content: Vono, Caio
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content: Wein, George
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content: Woode, James
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content: Woodman, Britt
topic: label: Topic
content: Jazz
label: Topic
content: Jazz musicians -- Interviews -- 1989-1991 -- United States
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content: African American musicians
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection created by the National Museum of American History, 1989-1993.
creator: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution
label: Creator
content: Greenlee, Marcia (oral historian)
label: Creator
content: Willard, Patricia
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content: Duke Ellington Oral History Project
abstract: label: Summary
content: Thirty-nine oral history interviews created by the Archives Center with Duke Ellington's music and business associates. The interviews cover a range of topics including Ellington as a musician, the significance of race in Ellington's work and life, Ellington and the economics of the music business, Ellington as international cultural figure, and Ellington and the historical record.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The collection was created by the Archives Center to provide research background about the Duke Ellington Orchestra.  It complements a growing number of Archives Center collections related to Ellington and American music. The interviewees were asked about their own backgrounds, their personal and musical relationships with Duke, and their assessment of Ellington's strengths and weaknesses and his role in twentieth century American music. The discussions centered on five major themes including Ellington as a musician, the significance of race in Ellington's work and life, Ellington and the economics of the music business, Ellington as international cultural figure, and Ellington and the historical record. Recollections range from approximately the 1940s through the mid 1970s.

The thirty-nine Interviews were conducted by oral historian Marcia Greenlee and former Duke Ellington publicist Patricia Willard with former Ellington music and business associates.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 15 Cubic feet (22 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1989- 1993
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0368
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Oral history
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content: Interviews
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged in one series.

Series 1, Oral History Tapes, 1989-1993
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Deborra A. Richardson, archivist.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Oral history -- 1980-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews -- 1980-2000
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interviews with musicians who performed with Ellington, producers and other business associates, Ellington scholars and fans, and family members documenting personal and musical relationships with Duke Ellington.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Materials in the Archives Center

Annual International Conference of the Duke Ellington Study Group Proceedings (AC0385)

Al Celley Collection of Duke Ellington Materials (AC1240) 

Duke Ellington Collection (AC0301)

Edward and Gaye Ellington Collection (AC0704)

Ruth Ellington Collection of Duke Ellington Materials (AC0415)

Carter Harman Collection of Interviews with Duke Ellington (AC0422)

New York Chapter of the Duke Ellington Society Collection (AC0390)

William Russo Transcription and Arrangement of Duke Ellington's First Concert of Sacred Music (AC0406)

Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection (AC0491)