(ThyBlackMan.com) Duke Ellington, a giant in jazz history ... Black History Connection: “Take the ‘A’ Train” is a symbol of the Great Migration, when millions of African Americans moved ...

When Boyd tries to persuade Duke to take a militant attitude ... “Once in San Francisco,” he said, “Ellington slept that way and when he got off the train he was so sleepy he got in a ...

Edward Kennedy Ellington, better known as Duke Ellington, born on April 29, 1899, was a composer, pianist, and bandleader ...