Re; Duke Ellington quotes

[George Thompson]

"it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"

If I recall correctly, Ellington was quoting his early trumpeter,
Bubber Miley.  Will attempt to verify this, upon request.

"A woman is a drum."

Ellington made an album called "a drum is a woman"

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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

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