Includes over one hundred essays focusing on Ellington as a person, musician, bandleader, and musical philosopher, and offering insight into Ellington's position in American musical culture
Who Was Duke Ellington? follows the exciting, multifaceted journey of this musical genius and takes a look at what truly makes Ellington an artist "beyond category."
Born the grandson of slaves, Ellington earned worldwide fame and praise from musicians of every musical background, becoming a spokesperson not only for his music but also for his people."--BOOK JACKET.
“'Jump for Joy' Run Closes Saturday,” California Eagle (25 September 1941), Duke Ellington file, 1941–44, IJS/RU; ... Duke Ellington, “We, Too, Sing 'America,'” in Tucker, Duke Ellington Reader, 147; Stratemann, Duke Ellington, 242, ...
Duke Ellington is considered to be one of the great genius' of jazz--its major composer and leader of probably the most significant of all jazz bands. Yet, other than his...
... Wallace, 174n, 216, 218, 219, 252 Joplin, Scott, 32–33 Jordan, Louis, 267-68 Jump For Joy, 222, 223–25, 227–36, 257–60, 318 “jungle music,” 90 “Junk Man Rag,” 31 Kalmar, Bert, 104 “Kansas City Man Blues,” 44 Kaye, Sammy, 279 Keeler, ...
The chronological structure of the volume allows a clear understanding of the development of key themes, with chapters surveying his work and his reception in America and abroad.
Provides an introduction to the life and biography of African American musician Duke Ellington, who influenced jazz and popular music.
In this book Ken Rattenbury offers a thorough musical analysis of Ellington's works, assessing the extent to which Ellington drew on the black music traditions of blues and ragtime and the music of Tin Pan Alley, and examining how he ...
He composed music for a production of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens at the Stratford, Ontario, Shakespeare Festival; he led his orchestra on a long and ... Also in Area Two was a manuscript of Edward Everett's speech at Gettysburg.