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Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington is a person from the US, active from 1899.

Person US 1899–1974 jazz swing big band

TOTAL PLAYS

359

SONGS PLAYED

158

STATIONS

FIRST PLAYED

2007-05-13 11:17 · Radio 2 — "I'm Beginning to See the Light"

LAST PLAYED

2 weeks ago · Radio 2 — "Purple Gazeller"

BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2007 — 2026

50 38 25 13 0

'07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26

◦ WHERE

By station

Radio 2 206 57%

6 Music 143 40%

1Xtra 7 2%

Radio 1 3 1%

◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 21:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT

#TITLEPLAYSLAST

1 Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) 24 2025-08-31

2 Take the 'A' Train 19 2015-11-24

3 Satin Doll 18 2025-10-23

4 Take the A Train 11 2023-12-26

5 Cotton Tail 10 2025-02-16

6 Take The "A" Train 8 2025-08-03

7 It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 7 2023-11-18

8 Such Sweet Thunder 7 2020-04-26

9 Money Jungle 6 2019-02-22

10 Fleurette Africaine 5 2024-09-01

11 Black and Tan Fantasy 5 2022-04-16

12 Harlem Air Shaft 5 2019-09-22

◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-05 20:08 Purple Gazeller Radio 2

2025-12-06 11:27 Grace Valse 6 Music

2025-10-25 10:50 Low Key Lightly 6 Music

2025-10-23 01:59 Satin Doll 6 Music

2025-09-14 21:43 Springtime in Africa 6 Music

2025-09-07 11:43 Black Beauty 6 Music

2025-08-31 23:00 Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) 6 Music

2025-08-31 12:00 Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) 6 Music

2025-08-03 11:44 Take The "A" Train 6 Music

2025-05-15 20:56 Chim Chim Cheree 6 Music

2025-05-04 11:59 Caravan 6 Music

2025-02-16 14:19 Cotton Tail 6 Music

◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

158 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z

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808 Seatrap —

3 2013-06-08 ▶

A Spoonful Of Sugar —

3 2016-05-01 ▶

Acht O'Clock Rock —

1 2017-10-03 ▶

African Flowers —

1 2018-09-30 ▶

Afro-Bossa —

1 2018-03-11 ▶

Almost Cried —

1 2013-07-14 ▶

Anatomy of a Murder —

3 2021-05-25 ▶

Arabesque Cookie/SugarRum Cherry —

1 2022-01-24 ▶

Black and Tan Fantasy —

5 2022-04-16 ▶

Black And Tan Fantasy (live at Newport) —

1 2015-10-27 ▶

Black and Tan Fantasy (Live) —

1 2019-03-03 ▶

Black Beauty —

1 2025-09-07 ▶

Black Butterfly —

1 2015-08-13 ▶

Blood Count —

2 2017-11-19 ▶

Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues) —

24 2025-08-31 ▶

Blue Skies - Live —

1 2018-07-01 ▶

Bluebird of Delhi —

4 2019-01-28 ▶

Blues For New Orleans —

3 2022-08-14 ▶

Blues in Orbit —

3 2020-05-17 ▶

C Jam Blues —

2 2018-02-11 ▶

Caravan —

4 2025-05-04 ▶

charade —

1 2018-05-06 ▶

Chim Chim Cheree —

4 2025-05-15 ▶

Chinoiserie —

1 2020-11-24 ▶

Christopher Columbus —

1 2016-08-14 ▶

Cocktails for Two —

1 2014-04-09 ▶

Come Sunday —

2 2017-05-17 ▶

Come Sunday (Feat. Mahalia Jackson) —

4 2020-08-30 ▶

Come Sunday (Part V Black Brown and Beige) —

1 2014-02-16 ▶

Concerto for Cootie —

2 2019-10-13 ▶

Cotton Club Stomp —

1 2011-06-12 ▶

Cotton Tail —

10 2025-02-16 ▶

Creole Love Call —

2 2018-07-29 ▶

Dance of the Floreadors —

1 2014-07-13 ▶

Day Dream —

3 2020-03-20 ▶

Daybreak Express —

1 2018-12-02 ▶

Didgeridoo —

1 2021-01-19 ▶

Didjeridoo —

2 2016-01-26 ▶

Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue —

3 2021-06-14 ▶

Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue live at Newport —

1 2015-06-28 ▶

Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue NEWPORT —

1 2015-01-18 ▶

Diminuendo In Blue (excerpt) —

1 2016-11-13 ▶

Don't Get Around Much Anymore —

4 2020-07-24 ▶

Don't You Know I Care —

1 2017-03-26 ▶

East St Louis Toodle Oo —

1 2016-06-05 ▶

East St Louis Toodle-Oo —

1 2018-09-05 ▶

Echoes of the Jungle —

1 2019-04-28 ▶

ellington '66 —

1 2015-07-19 ▶

Feed The Birds (Tuppence A Day) —

1 2016-01-28 ▶

Five O'clock Whistle —

1 2018-01-08 ▶

Fleurette Africaine —

5 2024-09-01 ▶

Flying Home —

1 2017-04-24 ▶

Grace Valse —

1 2025-12-06 ▶

Half the Fun —

2 2015-05-11 ▶

Happy Go Lucky Local —

1 2016-07-03 ▶

Happy Reunion —

1 2017-05-01 ▶

Harlem Air Shaft —

5 2019-09-22 ▶

Harlem Airshaft —

1 2017-02-05 ▶

Harlem Twist (East St. Louis Toodle-Oo) —

1 2020-04-18 ▶

Harmony in Harlem —

1 2018-01-28 ▶

Haupe —

2 2018-01-21 ▶

I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart —

3 2019-03-16 ▶

I Like the Sunrise / Liberian Suite —

2 2019-11-30 ▶

I'm Beginning to See the Light —

1 2007-05-13 ▶

I'm Beginning to See the Light (2001 Remastered Version) —

3 2024-03-25 ▶

In A Mellow Tone —

2 2016-10-23 ▶

In A Sentimental Mood —

3 2021-05-15 ▶

In my Solitude —

1 2019-01-02 ▶

In The Beginning God (Excerpt) —

1 2019-03-22 ▶

Introduction —

4 2017-11-16 ▶

Isfahan —

3 2019-04-28 ▶

It Don't Mean a Thing —

2 2021-03-21 ▶

It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) —

7 2023-11-18 ▶

It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing —

1 2017-02-14 ▶

Jack the Bear —

1 2012-10-30 ▶

Jeep's Blues —

3 2018-01-12 ▶

Jeep's Blues - Live —

1 2014-08-10 ▶

Jeeps Blues —

1 2014-08-10 ▶

Jingle Bells —

1 2023-12-21 ▶

Jingle Bells - Robbie Hardkiss Remix —

1 2022-12-24 ▶

Johnny Come Lately —

1 2016-02-07 ▶

Jump for Joy —

1 2016-03-21 ▶

Ko-Ko —

1 2019-04-28 ▶

La plus belle africaine —

1 2016-11-05 ▶

Lady Mac —

1 2024-05-28 ▶

Let's Get Together —

2 2017-07-02 ▶

Lost in Meditation —

1 2018-05-03 ▶

Low Key Lightly —

1 2025-10-25 ▶

Main Stem —

2 2017-10-30 ▶

Malletoba Spank —

1 2020-12-27 ▶

Midnight Indigo —

2 2021-05-13 ▶

Money Jungle —

6 2019-02-22 ▶

Mood Indigo —

5 2018-01-09 ▶

Mood Indigo (feat. Coleman Hawkins) —

1 2017-02-26 ▶

Mood Indigo (from 'The Hustler' OST) —

1 2014-05-17 ▶

Moon Mist —

1 2017-02-07 ▶

moon river —

1 2018-02-11 ▶

moonbow —

4 2015-07-26 ▶

Nite —

1 2021-02-04 ▶

Peanut Brittle Brigade —

4 2024-12-22 ▶

Perdido —

1 2010-07-08 ▶

Pitter Panther Patter —

1 2020-09-29 ▶

Portrait Of Louis Armstrong —

1 2024-11-05 ▶

Portrait Of Mahalia Jackson —

1 2019-04-06 ▶

Prelude To A Kiss —

1 2020-05-18 ▶

Purple Gazeller —

1 2026-05-05 ▶

Queen Suite: The Single Petal Of A Rose —

2 2024-05-26 ▶

Ray Charles' Place —

1 2022-05-23 ▶

Reflections in D —

1 2023-07-22 ▶

Rem Blues —

2 2019-08-26 ▶

Rhapsody In Blue —

1 2019-06-09 ▶

Rockin in Rhythm —

1 2015-02-08 ▶

Rockin' in Rhythm —

5 2019-04-28 ▶

Rockin' In Rhythm (Live at the Olympia Theatre, Paris) —

1 2019-06-02 ▶

Rocking In Rhythm —

1 2017-06-18 ▶

Rocks In My Bed —

1 2017-07-10 ▶

Running Wild CHECK IT DOESN'T JUMP —

1 2018-04-29 ▶

Satin Doll —

18 2025-10-23 ▶

Second Line —

1 2023-01-24 ▶

Serious Serenade —

1 2018-01-28 ▶

Sidewalks of New York —

3 2018-08-19 ▶

Skin Deep —

2 2017-01-02 ▶

Smada —

3 2018-11-18 ▶

Someone —

2 2018-02-03 ▶

Sonata from the Perfume Suite —

1 2014-12-14 ▶

Springtime in Africa —

1 2025-09-14 ▶

Star Crossed Lovers —

3 2018-01-28 ▶

Stay Awake —

1 2014-06-08 ▶

Such Sweet Thunder —

7 2020-04-26 ▶

Sugar Rum Cherry —

2 2016-12-18 ▶

Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) —

1 2020-12-13 ▶

Sugar Rum Cherry (The Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy) —

4 2019-12-22 ▶

Sultry Sunset —

1 2019-04-19 ▶

Switch Blade —

3 2024-03-02 ▶

Take The "A" Train —

8 2025-08-03 ▶

Take the 'A' Train —

19 2015-11-24 ▶

Take the A Train —

11 2023-12-26 ▶

Take the A Train (From Jazz 625 in 1964) —

1 2019-05-04 ▶

Take the A-Train —

1 2014-05-25 ▶

Tang —

1 2016-04-05 ▶

The Midnight Sun Will Never Set —

1 2016-05-29 ▶

The Opener (BBC Archive - Radio 2 Jazz 625) —

1 2019-05-05 ▶

The Queen's Suite: Sunset & The Mocking Bird —

1 2022-05-31 ▶

The Ricitic —

1 2017-10-03 ▶

The River Suite —

1 2011-01-23 ▶

The Single Petal of a Rose —

2 2024-08-25 ▶

The Star-Crossed Lovers —

1 2016-07-24 ▶

Things Ain't What They Used to Be —

2 2015-01-03 ▶

This Is It —

1 2013-06-17 ▶

Tootin' through the roof —

1 2019-02-03 ▶

Truckin' —

1 2013-12-08 ▶

Trumpets No End (Blue Skies) —

1 2014-04-13 ▶

Tulip or Turnip —

1 2018-11-04 ▶

Tulip or Turnip (feat. Ray Nance) —

1 2014-11-16 ▶

U.M.M.G. —

1 2015-10-04 ▶

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf —

1 2023-06-04 ▶

Who's Afraid Of The Big Band Wolf —

1 2015-05-17 ▶

Wild Man (Wild Man Moore) —

1 2019-02-24 ▶