Mercer Ellington: Duke's heir accepts no substitutes
Steve Bloom, Musician, December 1987
I TOOK THE A train to Mercer Ellington's apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. There I was, sitting in the train, flipping through Duke Ellington in Person, Mercer's memoir about his life as an Ellington, when it hit me. I giggled, then sprouted a goosebump or two.
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