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This 1958 photo released by Herman Leonard Photography, shows jazz great Duke Ellington playing the piano at the Olympia Theater in Paris. Leonard said that when he poked his camera through the curtain backstage he was happily surprised to find Ellington “bathed in celestial light”, and when he shot this picture, Ellington heard the click of the camera and gave Leonard a wink.
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A statue of jazz great Duke Ellington by sculptor Zachary Oxman waits to be installed on a pedestal in a newly-constructed plaza in Washington, DC. Ellington, a native, led his eponymous big band for more than fifty years, with signature songs such as It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) and Take the “A” Train.
