Thanks to them it produced an incredible quantity of “tubes”, (Satin Doll, Caravan, In has sentimental mood, Lush life, Take the has train, etc…), while redefining the concept of jazz band.

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Duke Ellington

          It is him which allowed an arranger as brilliant as Billy Strayhorn to be expressed thanks to harmonies rather dared for the time.

It is still him which composed with Juan Tizol this famous “Caravan”, tube among the tubes which opened the door with the Latin jazz. 

It is always him which used the human voice like an instrument, (“Creole coils cal”), which did not hesitate to employ inflected chords, fifths flat which the bopers will take again later, which starting from the improvisations of its orchestra composed of the written music, truffée of the rhythmic installations that one knows to him.

       Ellington is at the same time an innovator and a pitiless director.