The Duke Plays Ellington
by Duke Ellington

The Duke Plays Ellington by Duke Ellington
Year: 1953
Overall rank: 13,779th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 27 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1953 (18th)
Award Top albums of the 1950s (399th)
Award Best albums of all time (13,779th)

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Duke Ellington bestography

The Duke Plays Ellington is ranked 12th best out of 81 albums by Duke Ellington on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Duke Ellington is Ellington At Newport which is ranked number 1056 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,661.

Duke Ellington album bestography « Higher ranked (10,302nd)
Black, Brown And Beige (1945)
This album (13,779th)
The Duke Plays Ellington
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The Duke Plays Ellington

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Overall rank: 13,779th | 1950s rank: 399th | 1953 rank: 18th

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Average Rating: 
71/100 (from 27 votes)
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65/100
 
12/31/2025 17:15 EyeKanFly  Ratings distribution  8,63965/100
 
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12/22/2025 23:50 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  9,84570/100
 
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09/15/2025 15:14 Tamthebam  Ratings distribution  23,01569/100
 
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06/26/2025 06:40 Igtonumama  Ratings distribution  10,78763/100
 
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01/27/2025 19:52 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  24,56864/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.3/100, a mean average of 70.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 70.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.6.

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From 02/21/2013 19:10 | #65752
Nice jazz album, but becomes a bit dull after lots of tracks that don't sound so distinguished from each other, mainly because there's only one instrument the whole album, which doesn't add much to me.
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