Thus the music career of Duke Ellington wasborn. Duke was taken under the wings of Oliver "Doc" Perry and Louis Brown, whotaught Duke how to read music and helped improve his overall piano ...

When you're 5 years old and you're sitting on Duke Ellington's lap ... musician allowing him to feel as though he were playing the piano himself, just as well as the composer.

The men in Ellington’s band, which was playing when Benny ... up as if he were in pain. Duke’s face is dominated by an absorbed, sensual scowl as he plays his piano. Sonny Greer, a cigarette ...

The score is “my love of Duke Ellington through the ... why she can’t engage with the piano,” the director explains, “that her mother used to play, and it will wake these spirits up.