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Download or read book PORTRAIT OF Duke Ellington written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek Jewell
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Duke written by Derek Jewell and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Nicholson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
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Download or read book Reminiscing in Tempo written by Stuart Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anecdotal biography of the musical legend draws on reminiscences of his family, close friends, band members, and business associates, as well as the Duke himself. The quotations are presented free of authorial (or perhaps more accurately, editorial) contextualization other than brief chapter introductions. Sources for each interview quoted, many of them archival, are painstakingly notated, and an exhaustive discography is also included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Stuart Nicholson
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330367325
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (673 download)
Download or read book A Portrait of Duke Ellington written by Stuart Nicholson and published by Pan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviewfragmenten van vrienden, musici en andere tijdgenoten over de Amerikaanse jazzcomponist en orkestleider (1899-1974).
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 : 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 : 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 : Harvey G. Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226112659
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Duke Ellington's America written by Harvey G. Cohen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Bob Dingley
Publisher : Warner Bros. Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780769266497
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Portrait of Duke Ellington - Vocal B written by Bob Dingley and published by Warner Bros. Publications. This book was released on 1985-03-22 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephanie Stein Crease
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1556527241
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Duke Ellington written by Stephanie Stein Crease and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Duke Ellington, one of the most influential figures in American music, comes alive in this comprehensive biography with engaging activities. Ellington was an accomplished and influential jazz pianist, composer, band leader, and cultural diplomat. Activities include creating a ragtime rhythm, making a washtub bass, writing song lyrics, thinking like an arranger, and learning to dance the Lindy Hop. It explores Ellington's life and career along with many topics related to African American history, including the Harlem Renaissance. Kids will learn about the musical evolution of jazz that coincided with Ellington's long life from ragtime through the big band era on up to the 1970s. Kids learn how music technology has changed over the years from piano rolls to record albums through CDs, television, and portable music devices. The extensive resources include a time line, glossary, list of Ellington's greatest recordings, related books, Web sites, and DVDs for further study.
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Author : Eddie Lambert
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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 : 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 : Albert Murray
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307828654
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Hero And the Blues written by Albert Murray and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this visionary book, Murray takes an audacious new look at black music and, in the process, succeeds in changing the way one reads literature. Murray's subject is the previously unacknowledged kinship between fiction and the blues. Both, he argues, are virtuoso performances that impart information, wisdom, and moral guidance to their audiences; both place a high value on improvisation; and both fiction and the blues create a delicate balance between the holy and the obscene, essential human values and cosmic absurdity. Encompassing artists from Ernest Hemingway to Duke Ellington, and from Thomas Mann to Richard Wright, The Hero and the Blues pays homage to a new black aesthetic.
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 : Ken Vail
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810841192
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Duke's Diary written by Ken Vail and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of this two-volume set traces the artist's life and career month by month from the orchestra's return from an extended European tour in June 1950, to Ellington's death in 1974. Jazz historian and graphic designer Vail presents b & w photographs, newspaper reports, advertisements, reviews, and brief diary-type entries; he includes all known club, concert, theater, television, film, and jam sessions, as well as a selected list of recordings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Carin T. Ford
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780766027022
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Duke Ellington written by Carin T. Ford and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life and work of Duke Ellington, who remains one of the most influential jazz composers, pianists, and band leaders.
Author : Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Federal Theatre Project Collection written by Library of Congress. Manuscript Division and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
