Unlike most other jazz musicians, America's greatest composer, the Washington-born Edward Kennedy Ellington (1899-1974), came from a well-to-do middle-class background. He never really had to struggle much to make a living, so it is no surprise that he developed an aristocratic bearing, a taste for rank (duke = prince), elegant clothes and posh hotels. In autumn 2023, Gábor Turi's Free Seminar in Jazz will continue with a series of presentations on the great personalities of jazz, the second of which will focus on Duke Ellington.

Language: Hungarian