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The Duke Ellington Reader Book

Duke Ellington is universally recognized as one of the towering figures of 20th century music, both a brilliant composer and one of the preeminent musicians in jazz history. Here, Tucker offers the first historical anthology of writings about this...Read More

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  • Foyles

    This volume includes over a hundred interviews, critical essays, reviews and memoirs, as well as Ellington's own writings, to provide an historical anthology about ...

  • Amazon Review

    This superb anthology covers the entire length of the composer's career, from his landfall in Manhattan in 1923 to the Old Master period of the early 1970s. There are dozens of reviews, essays, appreciations, and memoirs, written not only by music critics but by such heavy hitters as Ralph Ellison, Simone de Beauvoir(!), and Blaise Cendrars. The book also includes a selection of Ellington's own dicta--be sure not to overlook his 1937 polemic from "Down Beat": "Ellington Refutes Cry That Swing Started Sex Crimes!" Superbly edited and endlessly intriguing, the Reader is an essential volume for Ellington nuts and neophytes alike.

  • 0195093917
  • 9780195093919
  • 27 July 1995
  • Oxford University Press Inc
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 560
  • New Ed
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