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Duke Ellington, Part 2

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Marc Myers
Aug 15, 2007
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Following my criticism of Ellington's 1950s recordings over the weekend I was taken to the musical woodshed by two fellow bloggers.

John Salmon of Mystic Sounds thought I was being way too hard on the Duke and way too dismissive. David Brent Johnson, a writer and host of "Night Lights," a jazz radio show at WFIU in Indiana, also felt I was too harsh and …

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