Duke Ellington was a jazz musician who came into popularity during the mid to late 1920s. With his most most popular hit, Three Little Words, reaching number one on the charts at the end of the decade in 1930. He was hired on at the Cotton Club in Harlem as the conductor of the Cotton Club Orchestra though he conducted from the piano rather than with a baton. His work after the 1920s is his most popular but some of his hits from the '20s include East St. Louis Toodle-Oo and The Mooche.

Duke Ellington