Record ID:
64406329 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 82132821
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1919-03-11
  • Washington (D.C.)
Death:
  • 1996-02-08
  • Copenhagen (Denmark)
Associated with:
  • United States
Occupations:
  • Trumpeters
  • Jazz musicians Composers Band directors Conductors (Music)
Notes:
  • At home with jazz. [MP] 1962.
  • New Grove dict. of jazz (Ellington, Mercer (Kennedy); b. 3-11-19, Washington; trumpeter, composer, and bandleader; son of Duke Ellington)
  • New York times, 2-10-96 (Mercer Ellington, bandleader, 76; d. 2-8-96, Copenhagen)
  • African American National Biography, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Ellington, Mercer; bandleader, composer/ arranger, trumpeter; born 11 March 1919 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; major asset to father, Duke Ellington; most lasting composings include, Things Ain't What They Used to Be, Blue Serge, Jumpin' Punkins, John Hardy's Wife, and Moon Mist; joined father's orchestra as road manager and a section trumpeter (1965); took over the orchestra following father's death; directed the Broadway musical Sophisticated Ladies, featured Duke's music, and conducted Duke Ellington's only opera, Queenie Pie (1981-1983); band's best albums include, Music Is My Mistress and Only God Can Make a Tree (1988, 1995); died 08 February 1996 in Copenhagen, Denmark)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)918242
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC PPi-MA UPB DHU-MS