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March 21, 1939: Billie Holiday, Django Reinhardt & Duke Ellington record on the same day.

• Billie Holiday records Long Gone Blues; You're Too Lovely To Last; Under A Blue Jungle Moon; Everything Happens For The Best; Why Did I Always Depend On You.
  
  
• Django Reinhardt records Jeepers Creepers; Swing 39; Japanese Sandman; Hungaria; I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight.
  
  
• Duke Ellington records a Portrait Of The Lion; Savoy Strut; Rent Party Blues; Dance Of The Goon; Good Gal Blues; Finesse.

More facts on this day:

• 1915
  Clarinetist Hank D'Amico born in Rochester, NY.

• 1939
  Billie Holiday, Django Reinhardt & Duke Ellington record on the same day.

• 1941
  Billie Holiday records with Eddie Heywood and his Orchestra.

• 1942
  Pianist/vocalist Amina Claudine Myers born in Blackwell, AR.

• 1964
  Pianist/composer Andrew Hill records "Point of Departure" on Blue Note Records.

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