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In the middle of the Great Depression, the boys in the band would ride out to one-nighters in Tulsa, Okla., Muskogee, Okmulgee, Oklahoma City, and over to Wichita, Kan., and Omaha, Neb.

Basie kept a draw book to record advances to the musicians. "Lester used to get either 55 or 60 cents," he remembered in his autobiography, "Good Morning Blues," "but you couldn't draw more than a buck and a quarter. But you could get a full course meal for 35 cents,"

About Duke Ellington

"In the royalty of American music, no man swings more or stands higher than the Duke."
-- President Richard Nixon

"The wit, taste, intelligence and elegance that Duke Ellington brought to his music have made him, in the eyes of millions of people both here and abroad, America's foremost composer."
-- President Richard Nixon

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