1958: DUKE ELLINGTON with JOHN DANKWORTH and HUMPHREY LYTTELTON | Monitor | BBC Music | BBC Archive

The legendary US jazz composer Duke Ellington speaks to two of England's finest Jazz musicians - Johnny Dankworth and Humphrey Lyttelton - about his style of jazz, the simple secret to keeping a big band together, his compositions, and the critics.

This clip is from Monitor, originally broadcast 12 October, 1958.


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