Lasting effects of The Duke Nuke...
Duke Ellington was one of the most influential Jazz artists of all time.
Ellington and the music that he composed influenced the world of not only Jazz, but the world of all music.
He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1966. He was later awarded several other prizes, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969, and the Legion of Honor by France in 1973, the highest civilian honors in each country. This shows how influential he was not only in his time, but now.
He died of lung cancer and pneumonia on May 24, 1974, a month after his 75th birthday, and is buried in the Bronx, in New York City. At his funeral attendedby over 12,000 people at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Ella Fitzgerald summed up the occasion, "It's a very sad day...A genius has passed."
Ellington and the music that he composed influenced the world of not only Jazz, but the world of all music.
He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1966. He was later awarded several other prizes, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969, and the Legion of Honor by France in 1973, the highest civilian honors in each country. This shows how influential he was not only in his time, but now.
He died of lung cancer and pneumonia on May 24, 1974, a month after his 75th birthday, and is buried in the Bronx, in New York City. At his funeral attendedby over 12,000 people at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Ella Fitzgerald summed up the occasion, "It's a very sad day...A genius has passed."
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind."
- Duke Ellington