Duke Ellington, amid “his 20 suits, 15 shirts, suede shoes and his ever present piano” in his dressing room at the Paramount Theater in New York in September 1946. This picture appeared in a series of intimate dressing room shots by the now legendary photographer, William Gottlieb, for Down Beat magazine, where he was a staff photographer at the time. Photo via The Library of Congress.
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Duke Ellington, amid “his 20 suits, 15 shirts, suede shoes…
