The Duke Ellington Masters, 1971 – The First And Second Sets DVD – Ben Webster , Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington remains a giant influence and is unquestionably one of the five most important figures in contemporary music today. A prolific writer and composer he predominantly worked within the framework of a big-band line-up producing music of extraordinary diversity. The Duke Ellington Masters are the original broadcast masters of Duke Ellington and his orchestra in concert in Copenhagen during the period 1965 to 1971 and are perhaps the finest record of a truly great man and