Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem.

• Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life (1935)

  
• A Bundle of Blues (1933)

  
• Black and Tan (1929)

  
• Jam Session (1942)

  
• The Apollo (2019)