Editing Duke Ellington (section)

==Legacy==
===Memorialized===
Numerous memorials have been dedicated to Duke Ellington in cities from New York and Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles.

In Ellington's birthplace, Washington, D.C., the [[Duke Ellington School of the Arts]] educates talented students who are considering careers in the arts by providing art instruction and academic programs to prepare students for post-secondary education and professional careers. In 1974, the District renamed the Calvert Street Bridge, originally built in 1935, as the [[Duke Ellington Bridge]]. Another school is P.S. 004 Duke Ellington in New York.

In 1989, a bronze plaque was attached to the newly named Duke Ellington Building at 2121 Ward Place NW.<ref>{{cite web|title=Program and Invitation entitled "the Dedication of the Birth Site of Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington" at 2129 Ward Place, N.W., Washington, D.C., April 29, 1989|url=http://www.aladin0.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=q-01000-00---off-0grant--00-1--0-10-0---0---0prompt-10-KEY%2cSU%2cCO%2cPE--4--ward%2c%2c%2c-----0-1l--11-en-50---20-home-%5bward%5d%3aKEY+--01-3-1-00-0-0-11-0-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=grant&srp=0&srn=0&cl=search&d=HASH0194ab871aee7f616ed57be6|publisher=Felix E. Grant Digital Collection|access-date=December 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115110449/http://www.aladin0.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=q-01000-00---off-0grant--00-1--0-10-0---0---0prompt-10-KEY,SU,CO,PE--4--ward,,,-----0-1l--11-en-50---20-home-%5bward%5d:KEY+--01-3-1-00-0-0-11-0-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=grant&srp=0&srn=0&cl=search&d=HASH0194ab871aee7f616ed57be6|archive-date=January 15, 2016}}</ref> In 2012, the new owner of the building commissioned a mural by [[Aniekan Udofia]] that appears above the lettering "Duke Ellington". In 2010 the triangular park, across the street from Duke Ellington's birth site, at the intersection of New Hampshire and M Streets NW, was named the [[Duke Ellington Park]].

Ellington's residence at 2728 Sherman Avenue NW, during the years 1919–1922,<ref>{{cite web|title=Letter from Curator of the Peabody Library Association of Georgetown, D.C. Mathilde D. Williams to Felix Grant, September 21, 1972|url=http://www.aladin0.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=q-01000-00---off-0grant--00-1--0-10-0---0---0prompt-10-KEY%2cSU%2cCO%2cPE--4--peabody%2c%2c%2c-----0-1l--11-en-50---20-home-%5bpeabody%5d%3aKEY+--01-3-1-00-0-0-11-0-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=grant&srp=0&srn=0&cl=search&d=HASHbdd7ebe76fe566dcb566d5|publisher=Felix E. Grant Digital Collection|access-date=December 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115110839/http://www.aladin0.wrlc.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=q-01000-00---off-0grant--00-1--0-10-0---0---0prompt-10-KEY,SU,CO,PE--4--peabody,,,-----0-1l--11-en-50---20-home-%5bpeabody%5d:KEY+--01-3-1-00-0-0-11-0-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=grant&srp=0&srn=0&cl=search&d=HASHbdd7ebe76fe566dcb566d5|archive-date=January 15, 2016}}</ref> is marked by a bronze plaque.

On February 24, 2009, the [[United States Mint]] issued a coin with Duke Ellington on it, making him the first African American to appear by himself on a circulating U.S. coin.<ref name="cnn">{{cite news|title = Jazz man is first African-American to solo on U.S. circulating coin|publisher = CNN|date = February 24, 2009|url = http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/24/duke.ellington.coin/index.html |access-date = October 3, 2009|quote = The United States Mint launched a new coin Tuesday featuring jazz legend Duke Ellington, making him the first African American to appear by himself on a circulating U.S. coin. [...] The coin was issued to celebrate Ellington's birthplace, the District of Columbia.|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090821173757/http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/24/duke.ellington.coin/index.html|archive-date = August 21, 2009|df = mdy}}</ref> Ellington appears on the reverse (tails) side of the District of Columbia [[Quarter (United States coin)|quarter]].<ref name="cnn"/> The coin is part of the U.S. Mint's program honoring the District and the U.S. territories<ref name="mint"/> and celebrates Ellington's birthplace in the District of Columbia.<ref name="cnn"/> Ellington is depicted on the quarter seated at a piano, sheet music in hand, along with the inscription "Justice for All", which is the District's motto.<ref name="mint">United States Mint. Coins and Medals. [http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/DCAndTerritories/index.cfm?action=dcterritories&local=DC ''District of Columbia''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414174747/http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/DCAndTerritories/index.cfm?action=dcterritories&local=DC |date=April 14, 2016 }}</ref>

In 1986, a United States commemorative stamp was issued featuring Ellington's likeness.<ref name="GRAMMYs">{{cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/duke-ellington |title=Duke Ellington – Artist – www.grammy.com |publisher=Recording Academy |access-date=April 12, 2018|date=May 22, 2018 }}</ref>

[[File:2009 DC Proof.png|thumb|Ellington on the Washington, D.C., quarter released in 2009]]

Ellington lived out his final years in Manhattan, in a townhouse at 333 [[Riverside Drive (Manhattan)|Riverside Drive]] near West 106th Street. His sister Ruth, who managed his publishing company, also lived there, and his son Mercer lived next door. After his death, West 106th Street was officially renamed Duke Ellington Boulevard.

A large memorial to Ellington, created by sculptor [[Robert Graham (sculptor)|Robert Graham]], was dedicated in 1997 in New York's [[Central Park]], near [[Fifth Avenue (Manhattan)|Fifth Avenue]] and [[110th Street (Manhattan)|110th Street]], an intersection named [[Duke Ellington Circle]].

A statue of Ellington at a piano is featured at the entrance to [[UCLA]]'s Schoenberg Hall. According to ''UCLA'' magazine:

{{blockquote|When UCLA students were entranced by Duke Ellington's provocative tunes at a [[Culver City]] club in 1937, they asked the budding musical great to play a free concert in [[Royce Hall]]. 'I've been waiting for someone to ask us!' Ellington exclaimed.

On the day of the concert, Ellington accidentally mixed up the venues and drove to USC instead. He eventually arrived at the UCLA campus and, to apologize for his tardiness, played to the packed crowd for more than four hours. And so, "Sir Duke" and his group played the first-ever jazz performance in a concert venue.<ref>Maya Parmer, [http://www.magazine.ucla.edu/depts/happenings/two_days_of_the_duke/ "Curtain Up: Two Days of the Duke"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403212339/http://www.magazine.ucla.edu/depts/happenings/two_days_of_the_duke/ |date=April 3, 2009 }}, ''UCLA Magazine'', April 1, 2009.</ref>}}

The [[Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival]] is a nationally renowned annual competition for prestigious high school bands. Started in 1996 at [[Jazz at Lincoln Center]], the festival is named after Ellington because of the significant focus that the festival places on his works.

===Tributes===
After Duke died, his son Mercer took over leadership of the orchestra, continuing until he died in 1996. Like the [[Count Basie Orchestra]], this "ghost band" continued to release albums for many years. ''[[Digital Duke]]'', credited to The Duke Ellington Orchestra, won the 1988 [[Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album]]. Mercer Ellington had been handling all administrative aspects of his father's business for several decades. Mercer's children continue a connection with their grandfather's work.

[[Gunther Schuller]] wrote in 1989:

<blockquote>Ellington composed incessantly to the very last days of his life. Music was indeed his mistress; it was his total life and his commitment to it was incomparable and unalterable. In jazz he was a giant among giants. And in twentieth century music, he may yet one day be recognized as one of the half-dozen greatest masters of our time.<ref>{{cite book|last=Schuller|first=Gunther|title=The Swing Era|year=1989|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=019504312X}}</ref>{{rp|157}}</blockquote>

[[Martin Williams (writer)|Martin Williams]] said: "Duke Ellington lived long enough to hear himself named among our best composers. And since his death in 1974, it has become not at all uncommon to see him named, along with [[Charles Ives]], as the greatest composer we have produced, regardless of category."<ref>Martin Williams, liner notes, ''Duke Ellington's Symphony in Black'', The Smithsonian Jazz Repertory Ensemble conducted by [[Gunther Schuller]], The [[Smithsonian]] Collections recording, 1980.</ref>

In the opinion of Bob Blumenthal of ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' in 1999: "[i]n the century since his birth, there has been no greater composer, American or otherwise, than Edward Kennedy Ellington."<ref>''Boston Globe'', April 25, 1999.</ref>

In 2002, scholar [[Molefi Kete Asante]] listed Duke Ellington on his list of [[100 Greatest African Americans]].<ref>Asante, Molefi Kete (2002). ''100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia''. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. {{ISBN|1573929638}}.</ref>

[[File:Duke Ellington star HWF.JPG|thumb|right|Star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6535 Hollywood Blvd.]]
His compositions have been revisited by artists and musicians worldwide as sources of inspiration and a bedrock of their performing careers:
* [[Dave Brubeck]] dedicated "The Duke" (1954) to Ellington and it became a standard covered by others,<ref>{{cite web
 | url = {{AllMusic|class=song|id=t933027|pure_url=yes}}
 | title = 'The Duke' by Dave Brubeck: song review, recordings, covers
 |website=AllMusic
 | access-date =March 21, 2007}}</ref> including [[Miles Davis]] on his ''[[Miles Ahead (album)|Miles Ahead]]'', 1957. The album ''[[The Real Ambassadors]]'' has a vocal version of this piece, "You Swing Baby (The Duke)", with lyrics by Iola Brubeck, Dave Brubeck's wife. It is performed as a duet between [[Louis Armstrong]] and [[Carmen McRae]]. It is also dedicated to Duke Ellington.
* [[Miles Davis]] created his half-hour [[dirge]] "He Loved Him Madly" (on ''[[Get Up with It]]'') as a tribute to Ellington one month after his death.
* [[Charles Mingus]], who had been fired by Ellington decades earlier, wrote the elegy "Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love" in 1974, a few months after Ellington's death.
* [[Stevie Wonder]] wrote the song "[[Sir Duke]]" as a tribute to Ellington, which appeared on his album ''[[Songs in the Key of Life]]'' released in 1976.

There are hundreds of albums dedicated to the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn by artists famous and obscure. ''[[Sophisticated Ladies]]'', an award-winning 1981 musical revue, incorporated many tunes from Ellington's repertoire. A second Broadway musical interpolating Ellington's music, ''[[Play On (musical)|Play On!]]'', debuted in 1997.