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Duke Ellington, a Rare card
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 94
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 440,000
Ranked #667 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Music critic Ralph J. Gleason called him "America's most important composer".
- Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s and gained a national profile through his orchestra's appearances at the Cotton Club in Harlem.
- A master at writing miniatures for the three-minute 78 rpm recording format, Ellington wrote or collaborated on more than one thousand compositions, his extensive body of work is the largest recorded personal jazz legacy, and many of his pieces have become standards.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Duke Ellington article was read about 440,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 94: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Duke Ellington
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Duke Ellington (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.






