ELLINGTON EDWARD DUKE Learn to Croon

Sale 2068 - Lot 314

Price Realized: $ 3,680

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000

ELLINGTON, EDWARD "DUKE." Learn to Croon. Two holograph pages, written on two and three staves and two pages of the same piece with different orchestration, written on four staves; the latter with rather complex orchestration. Indications for various members of the band including Juan Tizal, composer of two Ellington hits "Caravan" and "Perdido." On the last page of the first score, Ellington has written "Mr. Tizal, 42 Cunard St. Apt.10" and "Ask in Carney," [Harry Carney]. should be seen. [New York, 1933]

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"Learn to Swing" was written by Sam Coslow and Arthur Johnson.