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Duke Ellington
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Occupation
Born-died
Accomplishments
Pianist ,conductor,songwriter
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1899-1972
• Composed the score for Otto Preminger’s film Anatomy of a Murder
• In 1927 Duke introduced the wordless use of voice as a jazz instrument.
• In 1931 he broke through the regular 3 minute time climax for commercials