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  • When Duke Ellington played Afghanistan

    Fifty years ago this week, Duke Ellington and his band played in a concert he later called one of the most memorable of his life. The performance was in Kabul, in Afghanistan, and even though Ellington was at the height of his fame, almost all traces of it have been lost.

    In September 1963, jazz legend Duke Ellington played a rare concert in Kabul, Afghanistan - part of a US State Department cultural diplomacy tour.
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