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NAACP Tribute To DUKE ELLINGTON
America's Foremost Musician
Madison Square Garden, February 23, 1970
Having reviewed Ellington's relationship to one set of icons of 20th Century popular music yesterday (when all my troubles seemed so far away), today we turn to the man who one could justifiably argue was the greatest icon of 20th Century popular music of them all; the man who, in fact, could be said to have invented 20th Century popular music, 'Pops' himself, Louis Armstrong.
At 7:30 pm on 23 February, 1970, an NAACP tribute to Duke Ellington was held at Madison Square Garden. it lasted into the small hours - 2:00am - of the following morning. The video above shows Louis Armstrong presenting Ellington with a sterling silver and ebony trophy which in a black leather presentation case lined with crimson velvet.
The event was the subject of a report in the March 1970 issue of The Crisis magazine. I have included by way of illustration, screen shots of the relevant pages, the original source for which may be found here.
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