Duke Ellington mit Bandmitgliedern beim Baseball vor einem segregierten Astor Hotel in Florida, die Busaufschrift lässt auf ca. 1955/56 tippen, das Foto hat Charlotte Brooks für LOOK gemacht.
Es gibt zudem Footage von Ellington beim Baseball, 1941 mit Rex Stewart und Juan Tizol (am Ende ist noch Ben Webster im Zug zu sehen):
The National Museum of American History’s vast Duke Ellington Collection even includes some home movies from about 1941 of Ellington and his cornetist Rex Stewart, who played with Ellington from 1935 to 1945, tossing and hitting the ball. In the film, it a treat to see Stewart taking his mighty, twirling swings (:08) and Ellington first pitching and then taking a swing (:15); then valve trombonist Juan Tizel pitches (:41) and finally tenor saxophonist Ben Webster is framed in a final shot on the train. A photo from the mid-1950s depicts Ellington holding a bat in front of his band’s touring bus, someplace in the south, with a nearby sign “Colored only” symbolizing the rigid racial segregation of the day. This month is designated as the Jazz Appreciation Month and the American History Museum will shine its spotlight on the music as both an „historical and living treasure.“
(Im Text wird auch behauptet, „jazz“, die Bezeichnung, käme vom Baseball, „lost their jazz“ … dazu gibt es ja verschiedene Theorien.)
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