Born in Washington, D.C., Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington rose to fame at Harlem's Cotton ... concert pieces (such as "Black, Brown and Beige"), and the "Sacred Concerts." He was decorated with ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Duke Ellington, a giant in jazz history ... Originally a part of Ellington’s large-scale composition “Black, Brown, and Beige,” “Come Sunday” stands as one of the ...

Duke Ellington, whose contours have something ... and a long symphonic work entitled “Black, Brown, and Beige,” which he says is “a tone parallel to the history of the Negro.” ...