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Remembering Duke Ellington's 105th Birthday Band leader, composer, arranger and consummate showman Duke Ellington would have been 105 years old Thursday. NPR's Allison Keyes remembers the man who once said, "I live with music."

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Remembering Duke Ellington's 105th Birthday

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Remembering Duke Ellington's 105th Birthday

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Band leader, composer, arranger and consummate showman Duke Ellington would have been 105 years old Thursday. NPR's Allison Keyes remembers the man who once said, "I live with music."