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Early jazz from Duke Ellington - A swing jazz composer and entertainer December 20th, 2008 | by Tom | If you’re what people usually call a “serious” composer, what you have done is a theme and variations, and you publish it as part of an opus - or a big piece of work. But if you’re a swing musician, you may not publish it at all; just play it, making it a little different each time according to the way you feel, letting grow as you work on it Duke Ellington, in TOPS Magazine, 1938 The last 2… Continue