“Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music… there is a stepping stone towards all of these.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Duke Ellington’s eulogy to MLK, “Three Black Kings” (King of the Magi, King Solomon, and Martin Luther King Jr.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhr1ZQ7vPeY
“King Fit the Battle of Alabam’”
Ellington meets MLK in Chicago
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