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About this photograph
One of the most influential figures in American music history, composer-pianist-bandleader Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington combined jazz, popular, world music and popular strains of sound to create an eternal swinging music that remains beyond category.
This iconic portrait of the Duke was taken by Don Hunstein in 1959, the year Ellington snapped up a trio of Grammys for his musical score for the Otto Preminger film, Anatomy of a Murder, one of the first Hollywood films to feature a jazz soundtrack. In this photo Duke was taking a break at Colmbia's 30th Street Studios.
Print sizes and editions
11" x 14" - Limited Edition
16" x 20" - Limited Edition
20" x 24" - Limited Edition
30" x 40" - Limited Edition
Print type
Archival pigment print
Paper type
Archival paper
Signature
Estate stamped
About the photographer
Don Hunstein worked as chief staff photographer for Columbia Records for over thirty years. During his time there Hunstein had access to a broad range of musicians from a wide variety of genres. At the time Columbia Records felt it was important to document the cultural history of the music of their time, giving him the opportunity to do more than album covers and publicity shots. Hunstein photographed hundreds of album covers and documented the recording of many of the great albums in music history.
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