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Author : A. H. Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-03-01
Duke Ellington And His World written by A. H. Lawrence and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Based on lengthy interviews with Ellington's bandmates, family, and friends, Duke Ellington and His World offers a fresh look at this legendary composer. The first biography of the composer written by a fellow musician and African-American, the book traces Ellington's life and career in terms of the social, cultural, political, and economic realities of his times. Beginning with his birth in Washington, DC, through his first bands and work at the legendary Cotton Club, to his final great extended compositions, this book gives a thorough introduction to Ellington's music and how it was made. It also illuminates his personal life because, for Ellington, music was his life and his life was a constant inspiration for music.
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Author : A. H. Lawrence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Duke Ellington And His World written by A. H. Lawrence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Jazz musicians categories.
The World Of Duke Ellington
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Author : Stanley Dance
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 1981-03-21
The World Of Duke Ellington written by Stanley Dance and has been published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-03-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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
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Author : Terry Teachout
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2013-10-17
Duke written by Terry Teachout and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.”
Duke Ellington
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Author : Karen S Barbera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-12-08
Duke Ellington written by Karen S Barbera and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-08 with categories.
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 Ellington The Notes The World Was Not Ready To Hear
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Author : Karen S. Barbera
language : en
Publisher: Armin Lear Press
Release Date : 2022-01-25
Duke Ellington The Notes The World Was Not Ready To Hear written by Karen S. Barbera and has been published by Armin Lear Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Karen Barbera and Randall Keith Horton were strangers who met on a train. A cordial conversation led to an eight-year collaboration to tell new and enlightening stories about Duke Ellington and to bring his forgotten masterpieces back to life. The results are concerts and this book-a biography of both Ellington and Horton centered on their unique relationship and the musical and cultural importance of Black, Brown and Beige and Sacred Concerts. The book illuminates the historical significance of the compositions that helped create a paradigm shift in American music, race relations and culture. It is an engrossing story of "mysterious callings" that led Ellington to choose Randall Keith Horton as his assistant composer, conductor and pianist in 1973, and the author's serendipitous connection to Horton. Most of us know Duke Ellington as the king of swinging Jazz. But throughout his 50-year career, he also shattered racial barriers and stereotypes, bridged cultural divides, helped audiences feel their shared humanity, and dared people to imagine, if even for just one evening, a world without categories. Along the way he believed it possible and imperative to elevate Jazz and American composers on par with their European counterparts. Like a true pioneer, Duke Ellington took risks to provide music that audiences needed to hear, and in doing so, set lofty expectations for a country that was ill prepared to live up to them during his lifetime.
Duke Ellington S America
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Author : Harvey G. Cohen
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-05-15
Duke Ellington S America written by Harvey G. Cohen and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-15 with Music categories.
Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz standards such as “Mood Indigo” and “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” to his longer, more orchestral suites, to his leadership of the stellar big band he toured and performed with for decades after most big bands folded, Ellington represented a singular, pathbreaking force in music over the course of a half-century. At the same time, as one of the most prominent black public figures in history, Ellington demonstrated leadership on questions of civil rights, equality, and America’s role in the world. With Duke Ellington’s America, Harvey G. Cohen paints a vivid picture of Ellington’s life and times, taking him from his youth in the black middle class enclave of Washington, D.C., to the heights of worldwide acclaim. Mining extensive archives, many never before available, plus new interviews with Ellington’s friends, family, band members, and business associates, Cohen illuminates his constantly evolving approach to composition, performance, and the music business—as well as issues of race, equality and religion. Ellington’s own voice, meanwhile, animates the book throughout, giving Duke Ellington’s America an intimacy and immediacy unmatched by any previous account. By far the most thorough and nuanced portrait yet of this towering figure, Duke Ellington’s America highlights Ellington’s importance as a figure in American history as well as in American music.
The Life And Times Of Duke Ellington
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Author : John Bankston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Life And Times Of Duke Ellington written by John Bankston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with African American musicians categories.
A biography of Duke Ellington, a pianist since the age of seven, who conducted big bands, composed film and Broadway musicals, and used the unique sounds of the musicians in his band to revolutionize the sound of jazz.
Duke Ellington
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Author : Mike Venezia
language : en
Publisher: Getting to Know the World's Gr
Release Date : 2017-09
Duke Ellington written by Mike Venezia and has been published by Getting to Know the World's Gr this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
An introduction to the life and career of musician and composer Duke Ellington.
Duke Ellington
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Author : James Lincoln Collier
language : en
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1987
Duke Ellington written by James Lincoln Collier and has been published by New York : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 own not-very-revealing autobiography and a collection of reminiscences of his band members, there has never been an indepth biography of this preeminent figure in twentieth century music and entertainment. Here at last is the definitive critical biography of both the man and his music. James Lincoln Collier, author of the highly acclaimed Louis Armstrong: An American Genius, has produced a fascinating work which tells the full story of Edward Kennedy Ellington, from his childhood as the pampered and adored only son of a middle-class Washington black family to his death in 1974, hailed as "America's greatest composer" (according to the New York Times obituary) and mourned at his funeral by more than 10,000 people. Collier describes Ellington's charisma--his sense of being special even from childhood, when he would announce to his cousins "I am the grand, noble, Duke; crowds will be running to me,"...the formation of his band, including some of the greatest names in jazz history, among them, Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Lawrence Brown, and Paul Gonzavles...his arrival at the legendary Cotton Club in Harlem in the 1920s...his involvement with his manager Irving Mills, who manipulated and cheated him and even put his name on some of Ellington's songs, but who made him famous...his relationship with his family, including his troubled relationship with his son, his marriage and many affairs (including involvements with some of his own musician's women). But most of all, the book is about the creation of the music, from classic songs like "Sophisticated Lady" to the "sacred concerts" of Ellington's last years. Collier maintains that it is not necessary to see Ellington as a "composer" in the narrow sense of the word but as something just as important: an improvising jazz musician. His instrument was a whole band.This is a controversial book--not all will agree with Collier's assessments--but it will enthrall jazz buffs as well as anyone interested in a fascinating life and times.