Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
If you don't get substantially what you want, be ready to walk. And don't look back.
I don't know who's 18 years old today that, 20 years hence, is going to be a jazz fan.
When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.
Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.
You’re probably smarter than you present yourself.