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The 35 pages that link to Duke Ellington, each with the reason it gives.

• Harlem RenaissanceRelated: His residency at the Cotton Club made his music closely associated with Harlem’s nightlife.

• JazzRelated: Ellington treated the orchestra as a flexible palette for distinctive compositions and individual musicians.

• Swing musicRelated: His orchestra expanded swing through distinctive compositions and instrumental colors.

• HarlemRelated: His Cotton Club years helped make Harlem central to jazz history.

• Louis ArmstrongRelated: Ellington and Armstrong represented distinct but complementary centers of jazz composition and performance.

• Ella FitzgeraldRelated: Fitzgerald recorded and performed with his orchestra, including a celebrated Newport appearance.

• Benny GoodmanCompared with: Ellington’s individual orchestral sound contrasts with Goodman’s association with the popular swing boom.

• Cotton ClubRelated: His orchestra’s Cotton Club engagement from 1927 helped establish its national reputation.

• Race recordsRelated: His work illustrates jazz’s presence within the category’s diverse catalog.

• American classical musicRelated: Ellington’s large-scale compositions blurred boundaries between jazz and concert traditions.

• Pulitzer Prize for MusicRelated: The 1965 jury chose Ellington, but the Pulitzer board withheld the prize, exposing a contested boundary of musical recognition.

• Swing eraRelated: His orchestra developed distinctive colors and compositions before and throughout the era.

• Cab CallowayRelated: Ellington’s Cotton Club orchestra shared the Harlem venue and big-band era that shaped Calloway’s rise.

• Count BasieCompared with: Ellington’s composition-centered approach contrasts with Basie’s emphasis on rhythmic economy and ensemble swing.

• Newport Jazz FestivalRelated: His 1956 appearance became one of the festival’s defining episodes.

• Anatomy of a MurderRelated: He composed the score and appears onscreen as the pianist Pie Eye.

• History of musicRelated: His orchestra shows how jazz composition and performance developed together.

• Paul WhitemanCompared with: Ellington built an influential orchestra rooted in Black jazz traditions, unlike Whiteman’s popular symphonic-jazz project.

• Mahalia JacksonRelated: Jackson collaborated with Ellington on his sacred concert work Black, Brown and Beige.

• Sidney BechetRelated: Ellington featured Bechet on the 1926 recording of “Cake Walking Babies from Home.”

• Bill RobinsonRelated: Robinson appeared in Ellington’s 1929 Broadway musical, Black and Tan.

• Lena HorneRelated: Horne performed with Ellington’s orchestra early in her career, gaining experience on the touring band circuit.

• CaravanRelated: Ellington arranged and popularized Tizol’s composition with his orchestra.

• Cecil TaylorRelated: Ellington’s compositional ambition offers a useful antecedent to Taylor’s attention to large-scale musical form.

• Charles MingusRelated: Mingus briefly played with Ellington before leaving the band after a dispute.

• Ethel WatersRelated: Ellington's orchestra accompanied Waters on recordings, including her 1932 hit 'Stormy Weather.'

• Billy StrayhornRelated: Strayhorn’s closest musical collaborator, Ellington shared composing and arranging credit unevenly across their partnership.

• Benny CarterRelated: Ellington’s career offers a parallel example of a composer-bandleader shaping jazz through a distinctive ensemble.

• Gerry MulliganCompared with: Ellington’s richly orchestrated big-band writing offers a large-scale contrast to Mulligan’s open, small-group textures.

• Leonard FeatherRelated: Feather wrote extensively about Ellington and treated his music as central to jazz history.

• MusicianRelated: He shows how composition and ensemble leadership can define a musician's work.

• Take the "A" TrainRelated: He adopted Strayhorn’s composition as the orchestra’s signature theme.

• Abdullah IbrahimRelated: Ellington’s orchestral writing and sound influenced Ibrahim’s composing and arranging.

• Gladys Knight & the PipsRelated: The group’s collaboration with Ellington brought its vocals into a jazz-orchestra setting.

• Pearl BaileyRelated: Bailey appeared with Ellington’s orchestra in the 1940s.