Example sentences for: ellington

How can you use “ellington” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Andrew D. Ellington conceived of these experiments and assisted in the design of experiments and data analysis.

  • This new sound prefigured white, California cool jazz, but so had Billy Strayhorn's arrangements for Duke Ellington through the '40s, and so had Lester Young's diaphanous tenor saxophone playing with Count Basie even earlier.

  • (There is no suggestion at their entries that Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, or Louis Armstrong were black, but, while no direct mention is made of Bessie Smith's color, the “encyclopedic” information--in a six-line entry--yields the intelligence that “She died from injuries received in a car accident, reportedly after being refused admission to a `Whites only' hospital.”

  • But surround the soundtrack with silence and mount it in a frame of its own, and you have a stylish, silky knockoff of Duke Ellington's "Creole" style: a Hollywood makeover of a Northeastern version of raucous New Orleans jazz.

  • Handy or Ellington or Stevie Wonder in rap; it's a negation of a century of black music.


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