'Genius' Duke Ellington concludes British tour - archive, 1967

22 February 1967: Ellington’s sacred music package is a strange amalgam of Ellingtonia, gospel music and show businessFor more than forty years, Duke Ellington has been unchallenged as the paramount orchestral figure in jazz. Thelonious Monk, among others, has written melodies more substantial than Ellington’s many delightful but Tin Pan Alleyish creations. Even on the plane of orchestration the earlier Jelly Roll Morton, operating admittedly on a smaller and less-ambitious scale, sh