Celebrating jazz icon Duke Ellington

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This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of bandleader, composer and pianist Duke Ellington.

We remember the man and his music by revisiting Scott Tong's conversation with Larry Tye, author of the book "The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America" and Ellington's granddaughter Mercedes.