Are you ready for this?

“Duke Ellington… We Love You Madly,“ on CBS in 1973. Nelson George, thank you for your essay! What an INCREDIBLE gem. I am floating on a cloud.

It’s Quincy Jones’ tribute to Duke Ellington’s music and his legendary collaborators.

It boggles the mind that this level of artistry and production was on . . . An American television program. In 1972, like it was the most normal thing in the world. Quincy Jones must have regarded this as one of the greatest projects of his life.

I’m going to post the line-up of artists and songs in my first comment.