Take the "D" Train

Despite his own modest appraisal of his piano playing, Duke Ellington did fantastic duos and trios with Jimmy Blanton, Louis Armstrong, Mulgrew Miller, Billy Strayhorn, Max Roach, Charlie Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald, and more.

He's the Willie Nelson of jazz.

                                                       (Richard Avedon, 1963)

Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus, Max Roach: Money Jungle