The crowd of 3,000 jive addicts was one of the largest ever to jam Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Hepsters overflowed into a chamber music hall upstairs to get their rhythms by remote control, piped from the auditorium below. There was no doubt that Duke Ellington, twice winner of Esquire's All-American jazz poll, could still make more dollars dance at the box-office than such latter-day swing merchants as Eddie Condon, Lionel Hampton and Hazel Scott.
But for fans of the Duke's Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady and It Don't Mean a Thing days, the concert had the...
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