Editing Duke Ellington (section)

==Death==
Ellington died on May 24, 1974, of complications from [[lung cancer]] and [[pneumonia]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Jones|first=Jack|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-duke-ellington-19740525-story.html|title=From the Archives: Jazz Great Duke Ellington Dies in New York Hospital at 75|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 25, 1974|access-date=January 31, 2017}}</ref> a few weeks after his 75th birthday. At his funeral, attended by over 12,000 people at the [[Cathedral of St. John the Divine]], [[Ella Fitzgerald]] summed up the occasion: "It's a very sad day. A genius has passed."<ref>{{Harvnb|Hasse|1993|p=385}}.</ref>

He was interred in the [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)|Woodlawn Cemetery]], [[the Bronx]], New York City.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YIwz2nivT0sC&q=duke+ellington+woodlawn+cemetery&pg=PA129|title=Duke Ellington|first=David|last=Bradbury|date= 2005|publisher=Haus Publishing|page=129|isbn=978-1904341666|via=Google Books}}</ref>