Black, Brown, and Beige

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Black, Brown, and Beige is a jazz suite written by Duke Ellington for a concert at the Carnegie Hall in 1943. It was dedicated to telling the story of Africans in the United States, and the place of slavery and the church in their history.

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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