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Author : Mercer Ellington
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN 13 : 9780395257111
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Duke Ellington in Person written by Mercer Ellington and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry Teachout
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698138589
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Duke written by Terry Teachout and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 498 pages. 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.”
Author : Edward Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316194132
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington written by Edward Green and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 317 pages. 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 : Mark Tucker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195093919
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (939 download)
Download or read book The Duke Ellington Reader written by Mark Tucker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings by and about Duke Ellington and his place in jazz history.
Author : Janna Tull Steed
Publisher : Crossroad
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Duke Ellington written by Janna Tull Steed and published by Crossroad. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington and his music have been an intregral part of the American scene for most of the 20th Century. Janna Tull Steed introduces the readers to the engaging, enigmatic man himself, as well as to the range of Ellington's musical achievement, with a lively mix of fact and anecdote.
Author : Duke Ellington
Publisher : W H Allen
ISBN 13 : 9780491017206
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Music is My Mistress written by Duke Ellington and published by W H Allen. This book was released on 1974 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note: Includes a selected discography, list of compositions, and bibliography.
Author : Mercer Ellington
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Duke Ellington In Person written by Mercer Ellington and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1979-08-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurice Peress
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195098226
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Dvorak to Duke Ellington written by Maurice Peress and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent symphony conductor Maurice Peress describes his career conducting the premiers of such works as Leonard Bernstein's 'Mass' and Duke Ellington's 'Queenie Pie'. He traces the great impact of African American music on American music, beginning with the work of Antonin Dvořák.
Author : M. D. Payne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 039953962X
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Who Was Duke Ellington? written by M. D. Payne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Author : A. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135880611
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Duke Ellington and His World written by A. H. Lawrence and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John Edward Hasse
Publisher : Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN 13 : 9780711942752
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Beyond Category written by John Edward Hasse and published by Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography draws on the thousands of pages of scrapbooks, letters, business records, musical manuscripts, and photographs in the Duke Ellington archives at the Smithsonian Institute. Both the novice and the fan is guided through the array of Ellington recordings by Hasse, who selects and comments on the most essential ones from each period of Ellington's career. This book contains over 100 photographs of Ellington and his musicians.
Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Charlesbridge Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781570917004
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite written by Anna Harwell Celenza and published by Charlesbridge Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of how jazz composer and musician Duke Ellington, along with Billy Strayhorn, created his jazz composition based on Tchaikovsky's famous Nutcracker Suite ballet. Includes author's note.
Author : Ken Rattenbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300044287
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (442 download)
Download or read book Duke Ellington, Jazz Composer written by Ken Rattenbury and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is an unusual survey of the first-and formative-third of Duke Ellington's career as a composer. There are many analyses of the music and copious illustrations in notation.' Stanley Dance
Author : Steven Brower
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847848132
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Duke Ellington written by Steven Brower and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated and unparalleled in scope, this is an elegant visual celebration befitting the life and work of the "prince of the piano." Duke Ellington was the undisputed father of the American songbook. A prolific writer and consummate performer, Ellington was the author of such standards as "Solitude," "Prelude to a Kiss," and "It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got that Swing)." With a career that spanned five decades, he is one of the defining composers of the Jazz Age. With unprecedented access to the Ellington family archives, this long overdue book illuminates the life and work of an icon of twentieth-century music from his humble beginnings to his long-lasting success. Every stage of Ellington’s career is brought to life, from sepia photographs of his early days in Washington, DC, to colorful playbills from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, his triumphant tours of Europe in the 1930s, and his pioneering explosion of form and genre in the 1940s and beyond. Alongside more than two hundred stunning images, contributions from peers such as Dave Brubeck, Cornel West, Quincy Jones, and Tony Bennett shed light on Ellington’s musical legacy, while the voice of his granddaughter Mercedes reveals the character behind the charisma, and the man behind the piano.
Author : Carolyn Sloan
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1523506881
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Welcome to Jazz written by Carolyn Sloan and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INTERACTIVE, SWING-ALONG PICTURE BOOK—WITH 12 SOUND CHIPS! Are you ready to swing? Discover the wonders of jazz: How to get in the groove, what it means to play a solo, and the joy of singing along in a call-and-response. In this interactive swing-along picture book with 12 sound chips, you’ll hear the instruments of jazz—the rhythm section with its banjo, drums, and tuba, and the leads, like the clarinet, trumpet, and trombone. And you’ll hear singers scat, improvising melodies with nonsense syllables like be-bop and doo-we-ah! Along the way, you’ll learn how this unique African American art form started in New Orleans, and how jazz changed over time as innovative musicians like King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday added their own ideas to it. Press the buttons to hear the band, the rhythms, and the singer calling out: “OH WHEN THE SAINTS—oh when the saints…”
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Author : Eddie Lambert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Duke Ellington. [A Biography. With Portraits.]. written by Eddie Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Gold
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063076764
Total Pages : 835 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Sittin' In written by Jeff Gold and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual history of America’s jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, featuring exclusive interviews and over 200 souvenir photos. In the two decades before the Civil Rights movement, jazz nightclubs were among the first places that opened their doors to both Black and white performers and club goers in Jim Crow America. In this extraordinary collection, Grammy Award-winning record executive and music historian Jeff Gold looks back at this explosive moment in the history of Jazz and American culture, and the spaces at the center of artistic and social change. Sittin’ In is a visual history of jazz clubs during these crucial decades when some of the greatest names in in the genre—Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, and many others—were headlining acts across the country. In many of the clubs, Black and white musicians played together and more significantly, people of all races gathered together to enjoy an evening’s entertainment. House photographers roamed the floor and for a dollar, took picture of patrons that were developed on site and could be taken home in a keepsake folder with the club’s name and logo. Sittin’ In tells the story of the most popular club in these cities through striking images, first-hand anecdotes, true tales about the musicians who performed their unforgettable shows, notes on important music recorded live there, and more. All of this is supplemented by colorful club memorabilia, including posters, handbills, menus, branded matchbooks, and more. Inside you’ll also find exclusive, in-depth interviews conducted specifically for this book with the legendary Quincy Jones; jazz great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins; Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan; jazz musician and creative director of the Kennedy Center, Jason Moran; and jazz critic Dan Morgenstern. Gold surveys America’s jazz scene and its intersection with racism during segregation, focusing on three crucial regions: the East Coast (New York, Atlantic City, Boston, Washington, D.C.); the Midwest (Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City); and the West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco). This collection of ephemeral snapshots tells the story of an era that helped transform American life, beginning the move from traditional Dixieland jazz to bebop, from conservatism to the push for personal freedom.
