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Known by Ellington as "B, B, & B" according to Irving Townsend in his 1958 liner notes to a recording of a later version of the suite ('' Black, Brown And Beige '', Columbia records), it was originally in three movements. It received its first performance at Rye High School in Westchester County , New York , on 23 January 1943 (the evening before its Carnegie Hall debut).


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