Friendship Armstrong Academy
Videos
Friendship Armstrong Academy is a public charter school located in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Historically a black school, it is housed in the former Armstrong Manual Training
Armstrong Manual Training School
Duke Ellington
Videos
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gleason called him "Ame
Friendship Armstrong Academy
…Billy Eckstine, musician Duke Ellington, 1913–1917, composer and pianist Lillian Evanti, opera singer…
Publicity portrait, c. 1940s
British pressing of "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" (1927)
Adelaide Hall recorded "Creole Love Call" with Ellington in 1927. The recording became a worldwide hit.
Ellington at the Hurricane Club, Broadway & West 51st Street, New York City, May 1943