In a Mellow Tone (Ed Sullivan Show)

Name: In a Mellow Tone (Ed Sullivan Show)
Uploaded: 1959-01-01
Duration: 3 min 31 s
Description: This 1959 Ed Sullivan Show performance brought together two giants of jazz: trumpeter Louis Armstrong and pianist-composer Duke Ellington. The collaboration featured Ellington's composition "In a Mellow Tone," originally written in 1939.

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This 1959 Ed Sullivan Show performance brought together two giants of jazz: trumpeter Louis Armstrong and pianist-composer Duke Ellington. The collaboration featured Ellington's composition "In a Mellow Tone," originally written in 1939.