Duke Ellington, Joya Sherrill, Margaret Tynes

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Duke Ellington with Joya Sherrill and Margaret Tynes rehearsing for the television version of Mr. Ellington’s jazz suite "A Drum is a Woman". The one-hour television special aired on CBS’s “U.S. Steel Hour” on May 8, 1957. Photo: CBS via Getty Images.