From Duke Ellington to ‘Abami Eda’, and to ‘Portable’ – talented musicians and their wiles

For a Jazz lover, one precious recollection you cherish is a snippet of an interview between Michael Parkinson and Duke Ellington. Ellington was one of the most revered composers and pianists in Jazz. “The rumour is that when he eventually turned himself in, he was welcomed with a welter of sl