Paul Gonsalves
Paul Gonsalves was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington.
At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27- chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's" Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue", a performance credited with revitalizing Ellington's waning career in the 1950s.
Luther Blue
Luther Blue( born October 21, 1954) is a former professional American football player who played wide receiver for the Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles.
Archie Blue
Archibald Blue( born 8 April 1940) is a Scottish footballer, who played as a centre forward in the Football League during the 1960s, before moving to Australia and playing international football for them.
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than six decades.
Born in Washington, D.C.,
Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
In the 1930s, his orchestra toured in Europe.
Although widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music rather than to a musical genre such as jazz.
Some of the jazz musicians who were members of Ellington's orchestra, such as saxophonist Johnny Hodges, are considered to be among the best players in the idiom.
Ellington melded them into the best-known orchestral unit in the history of jazz.
Some members stayed with the orchestra for several decades.
A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format
, Ellington wrote more than one thousand compositions; his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, with many of his pieces having become standards.
Ellington also recorded songs written by his bandsmen, for example Juan Tizol's "Caravan", and "Perdido", which brought a Spanish tinge to big band jazz.
In the early 1940s, Ellington began a nearly thirty-year collaboration with composer-arranger-pianist Billy Strayhorn, whom he called his writing and arranging companion.
With Strayhorn, he composed many extended compositions, or suites, as well as additional short pieces.
Following an appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, in July 1956, Ellington and his orchestra enjoyed a major revival and embarked on world tours.
Ellington recorded for most American record companies of his era, performed in several films, scored several, and composed a handful of stage musicals.
Ellington was noted for his inventive use of the orchestra, or big band, and for his eloquence and charisma.
His reputation continued to rise after he died, and he was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Award for music in 1999.
Chris Blue
Chris Blue( born January 15, 1990) is an American singer.
He is the winner of season 12 of the American talent competition" The Voice" at the age of 27.
Vanessa Blue
Vanessa Blue( born May 27, 1974) is an American pornographic actress and director.
She was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2013.
Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue
"Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" is a jazz composition written in 1937 by Duke Ellington and recorded for the first time on May 15, 1937 by the Duke Ellington Orchestra with Wallace Jones, Cootie Williams (trumpet), Rex Stewart (cornet), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Johnny Hodges, Otto Hardwick (alto saxophone), Laurence Brown, Joe Nanton (trombone), Harry Carney (clarinet, baritone saxophone), Sonny Greer (drums), Wellmann Braud (bass), Freddie Guy (guitar), and Duke Ellington (piano).
No tenor saxophone was present in this recording section, nor in "Crescendo in Blue," which was recorded the same day.
In its early form, the two individual pieces, "Diminuendo in Blue" and "Crescendo in Blue," were recorded on opposite sides of a 78 rpm record.
The 1956 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival revitalized Ellington's career, making newspaper headlines when seated audience members chaotically began rising to dance and stand on their chairs during Paul Gonsalves's tenor saxophone solo.
Neal Blue
James Neal Blue( born 1935) is an American billionaire businessman, and the CEO and chairman of General Atomics based in San Diego, California.
Bella Blue
Bella Blue( born January 25, 1982) is an American burlesque dancer and producer.
She is the founder and headmistress of the New Orleans School of Burlesque.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.

Question: What is the place of birth of the composer of song Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue?
Answer: Washington