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Duke Ellington “African Flower.”

So classy it hurts…

I don’t know from classy but it elicits feelings from somewhere - Thanks. Wow! Just Duke on piano, super smack.

I don’t know what class has to do with music either, but Duke was incredibly suave, I give you that. And I encourage you to check out the ina.fr archive for old films, musical features and short documentaries. I’ve been trying to get ahold of the French film for Gustav Meyrink’s book The Golem since I first read it, and so far ina.fr has been the only reference. Two prior adaptations to film, dated 1917 and 1920 are forever lost.