Ellingtonian

A very different case was that of the charismatic drummer Chick Webb, who for years led a very popular band at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. His 1929 "Dog Bottom" and slightly Ellingtonian "Jungle Mama" (both Brunswick —as by the Jungle Band) were somewhat ahead of their day and almost orchestral in approach.

This act has come to form the very definition of Ellingtonian "extended jazz," as Ellington's post-BB&B concert works are most commonly composed as suites built from "extended" chorus-based arranging routines.

His albums in the late 1980s reflected his curatorial interest in Tin Pan Alley compositions, in the musical mélange of his hometown New Orleans, and in Ellingtonian themes.

Hodges became the most striking example of the truism 'once an Ellingtonian, always an Ellingtonian '.

These aren't classic records (despite the label tide) and one immediately recognizes that, despite being surrounded by Ellingtonians, albeit a reduced personnel, Johnny played his best work with Duke himself.

In addition to his many credited and unbilled appearances as an Ellingtonian, he was a sideman on other musicians' studio sessions (Clark Terry, Johnny Hodges, et al.), as well as recording a handful of albums under his own name.