“In a class by itself..."
-Los Angeles Times
"Can't be beat... a superb. two-parter... the perfect example of just how an in depth profile of an artist should be done...”
-New York Daily News
"...accomplishes something that very few documentaries of this sort ever accomplish...leaves the viewer and listener with a deep sense of Duke Ellington’s genius.”
-New York Post
"Much more than a documentary about the Duke...
an essential testimony about the music of our century"
-Jazz Magazine, France
“A masterly portrait of a master..."
-Politiken, Denmark