Duke Ellington And His World

Author : A. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135880620

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Duke Ellington and His World by A. H. Lawrence Pdf

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 : A. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135880613

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Duke Ellington and His World by A. H. Lawrence Pdf

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 : A. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Jazz musicians
ISBN : 0203606280

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Duke Ellington and His World by A. H. Lawrence Pdf

Author : Karen S Barbera,Randall Keith Horton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 195645005X

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Duke Ellington by Karen S Barbera,Randall Keith Horton Pdf

The book illuminates the historical significance of the Duke Ellington compositions that helped create a paradigm shift in American music, race relations and culture.

Author : Stephanie Stein Crease
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781556527241

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Duke Ellington by Stephanie Stein Crease Pdf

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.

Author : Terry Teachout
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780698138582

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Duke by Terry Teachout Pdf

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 : M. D. Payne,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399539640

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Who Was Duke Ellington? by M. D. Payne,Who HQ Pdf

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 : Harvey G. Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226112657

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Duke Ellington's America by Harvey G. Cohen Pdf

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 : Mark Tucker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195093917

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The Duke Ellington Reader by Mark Tucker Pdf

A collection of writings by and about Duke Ellington and his place in jazz history.

Author : Steven Brower,Mercedes Ellington
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780847848133

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Duke Ellington by Steven Brower,Mercedes Ellington Pdf

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 : Stanley Dance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0684127318

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The World of Duke Ellington by Stanley Dance Pdf

Author : Janna Tull Steed
Publisher : Crossroad
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015048739737

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Duke Ellington by Janna Tull Steed Pdf

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 : Edward Green,Evan Spring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521881197

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The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington by Edward Green,Evan Spring Pdf

This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to provide an in-depth overview of Ellington's career.

Author : Mike Venezia
Publisher : Getting to Know the World's Gr
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531226581

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Duke Ellington by Mike Venezia Pdf

An introduction to the life and career of musician and composer Duke Ellington.

Author : Stanley Dance
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1981-03-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007514727

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The World Of Duke Ellington by Stanley Dance Pdf

A fascinating portrait of one of America's greatest composer-performers in his own words and the words of the musicians he played with.