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The World Of Duke Ellington
Author | : Stanley Dance |
Publsiher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1981-03-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105007514727 |
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A fascinating portrait of one of America's greatest composer-performers in his own words and the words of the musicians he played with.
Duke Ellington and His World
Author | : A. H. Lawrence |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2004-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781135880620 |
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Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington's bandmates, family and friends, Duke Ellington and His World offers a fresh look at this legendary composer, tracing his life and career in terms of the social, cultural, political and economic realities of his times.
Duke Ellington
Author | : Karen S Barbera,Randall Keith Horton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-12-08 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 195645005X |
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The book illuminates the historical significance of the Duke Ellington compositions that helped create a paradigm shift in American music, race relations and culture.
Duke
Author | : Terry Teachout |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2013-10-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780698138582 |
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A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was the greatest jazz composer of the twentieth century—and an impenetrably enigmatic personality whom no one, not even his closest friends, claimed to understand. The grandson of a slave, he dropped out of high school to become one of the world’s most famous musicians, a showman of incomparable suavity who was as comfortable in Carnegie Hall as in the nightclubs where he honed his style. He wrote some fifteen hundred compositions, many of which, like “Mood Indigo” and “Sophisticated Lady,” remain beloved standards, and he sought inspiration in an endless string of transient lovers, concealing his inner self behind a smiling mask of flowery language and ironic charm. As the biographer of Louis Armstrong, Terry Teachout is uniquely qualified to tell the story of the public and private lives of Duke Ellington. A semi-finalist for the National Book Award, Duke peels away countless layers of Ellington’s evasion and public deception to tell the unvarnished truth about the creative genius who inspired Miles Davis to say, “All the musicians should get together one certain day and get down on their knees and thank Duke.”
Who Was Duke Ellington
Author | : M. D. Payne,Who HQ |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2020-12-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780399539640 |
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How did a working-class young man from Washington, DC, turn the music world on its head and become the "Master Of Jazz"? Find out in this addition to the Who HQ library! A pivotal fixture of the Harlem Renaissance, Duke Ellington was the bandleader of the historic Cotton Club and a master composer -- writing close to 3,000 songs in his lifetime and capturing the spirit of the Black experience in the Unites States. Over a 50-year career, Ellington became one of the biggest names in jazz as we know it. He went on to win 13 Grammys, a Pulitzer, and receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969. 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."
The Duke Ellington Reader
Author | : Mark Tucker |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195093917 |
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A collection of writings by and about Duke Ellington and his place in jazz history.
Duke Ellington
Author | : James Lincoln Collier |
Publsiher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195059166 |
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Traces the life of the internationally acclaimed musician and composer who helped popularize jazz.
The Life and Times of Duke Ellington
Author | : John Bankston |
Publsiher | : Mitchell Lane |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781545748794 |
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More than any other musician in the early twentieth century, Duke Ellington brought jazz into nightclubs and later into the living rooms of America. The music he played sprang in part from the blues and gospel rhythms of the plantation slaves living in the mid-nineteenth century, infused with the sounds of ragtime from the turn of the century. Jazz has been called the first musical form created in the United States. It was a type of sharp improvisation for which band members played anything they wanted along a chosen key or set of chords, so every night the music was different. Duke led with his piano playing, but he allowed various other members of his band to shine, too. Embracing new technologies such as radio receivers and record players, Duke Ellington was an early pop star.