INTERVIEW/PROFILE/TRIBUTE: Duke Ellington: 1932-1940

INTERVIEW/PROFILE/TRIBUTE: Duke Ellington: 1932-1940
Don’t think of Duke Ellington as a bandleader. Instead,A consider him in the same light as other great entrepreneurs like Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Jobs (Apple), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google), and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook). Ellington came up with a great new idea in the early ’20s and ran his band and brand like a wildly successful business for six decades. In the process, he set high …
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