[ Autograph ] Duke Ellington (1899 -1974 American band leader and composer of such hits as "Mood Indigo", "Ko Ko" and " Sophisticated Lady". I.S.P. "Duke", 5in x 8in b/w a vintage view of Ellington showing him half-length with hands in his pockets, matted with a photograph of the "Cotton Club dancers", fourteen scantily-clad dancers at Harlem's famous Cotton Club, each identified in green ink.The dancers' photograph is creased at bottom, Ellington's is very good Both are matted with a brass plaque and framed.