Photographer James Van Der Zee studies the grand piano in Duke Ellington’s townhouse. Someone asks him to play. “Off the record,” he confesses, “I haven’t touched the piano in four or five years now.” Then he begins a melody. It’s a quiet opening to one of the great pleasures of “Once Upon a Time in […]
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