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What distinguished Ellington from most of his contemporaries was that he set himself the goal of expanding the time frame of the jazz piece, stretching it well beyond the limits of the 78-rpm side and into the realm of the large-scale classical work.

—from The Rest is Noise: Listening to Music in the Twentieth Century, a book by Alex Ross

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