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The ‘A’ train referred to, is, of course, the A Line of the New York City subway system. It runs from Inwood at 207th Street, ...

In the very late 1930s or very early 1940s, Billy Strayhorn wrote a jazz piece called Take the A Train for Duke Ellington.

To call Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington inimitable is to actually downplay his mythic role in world culture, as no American figure — be he from the realm of jazz or any other musical idiom — has ever ...