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- Duke Ellington in person
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Film & TV
Known for
- On the Road with Duke Ellington — Self1974
- Duke Ellington: Love You Madly — Self1967
- The Mike Douglas Show — Self1961
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Mercer K. Ellington (11 March 1919–8 February 1996) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger. Ellington was born in Washington, DC, the son of famous composer, pianist, and bandleader Duke Ellington. By the age of eighteen he had written his first piece to be recorded by his father ("Pigeons and Peppers"). In 1939, 1946–1949, and 1959 he led his own bands, many of whose members went on to play with his father, or to achieve independent fame (notably Dizzy Gillespie <a href="https
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Place of death
- Copenhagen
- Father
- Duke Ellington
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- trumpet
- Image
- Mercer Ellington.jpg
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- date of death
- 1996-02-08
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1919-03-11
- Commons category
- Mercer Ellington
- start of work period
- 1939-00-00
- place of burial
- Arlington National Cemetery
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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