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Swing was big up through the late 40s - Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington dominated the charts.

For a tiny US example: look at the Taft and Ellington Bridges in Washington State.

I'm curious, is there a way to find out how much Ellington costs other then contacting them directly?

Is it some slight against Duke Ellington that he wasn't selected to write and record the hold music you hear when you call your doctors office?

Look at jazz too, going from Ellington to Coltrane.

Duke Ellington simply refused to read critics.

All the local high schools in the Seattle area had/have serious jazz programs that sent students to The Essentially Ellington competition/festival - the one the movie Chops is about.

There are famous exceptions that prove the rule on this, such as the extremely high register opening bassoon passage from Rite of Spring through which Stravinsky intended to convey strain, or the trumpet squeals of Ray Nance at the end of many Ellington arrangements.

As Duke Ellington said of Louis Armstrong: "He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way."

Think about the success of mood/circumstance specific mix CD's like "Ibiza Club" or "Ellington for Lovers"...

"Lewis Ellington is a heavy hitting JavaScripter..." Hmm...

You are right when you say that compilations like "Ibiza Club" or "Ellington for Lovers" make a lot of money: so does selling Muzak (the background music in supermarkets and most commercial spaces with music).

Any such code, of course, would have to be kept out of Ellington, for instance.

They were both used by people to complete suicide, although more people used Ellington.

Ellington's material, of which there was a lot, is quite imaginative.