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Release : 1991
Genre : Jazz
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Book Rating : 103/5 ( reviews)
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Download or read book The Essential Duke Ellington written by . This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duke Ellington
Release : 1990
Genre : Jazz vocals
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Book Synopsis The essential Duke Ellington by : Duke Ellington
Download or read book The essential Duke Ellington written by Duke Ellington. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Music Sales Corporation
Release : 1996-12
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Book Synopsis Essential Duke Ellington Songbook by : Music Sales Corporation
Download or read book Essential Duke Ellington Songbook written by Music Sales Corporation. This book was released on 1996-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Green
Release : 2015-01-08
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 132/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington by : Edward Green
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington written by Edward Green. This book was released on 2015-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes renowned scholars, critics, composers, and jazz musicians. Organized in three parts, the Companion first sets Ellington's life and work in context, providing new information about his formative years, method of composing, interactions with other musicians, and activities abroad; its second part gives a complete artistic biography of Ellington; and the final section is a series of specific musical studies, including chapters on Ellington and song-writing, the jazz piano, descriptive music, and the blues. Featuring a chronology of the composer's life and major recordings, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellington's enduring artistic legacy.
Author : Terry Teachout
Release : 2013-10-17
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 589/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Duke by : Terry Teachout
Download or read book Duke written by Terry Teachout. This book was released on 2013-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”
