I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.
Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.
Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.