Celebrating the Duke offers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes and heroines, including Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and a rich cache of writings on "America's greatest composer," the Duke himself.
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Jazz and rock critic, founding editor of Rolling Stone, producer, disc jockey, teacher, and vice-president of Fantasy Records, Ralph J. Gleason (1917–1975) was the author of Jam Sessions and The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound.
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EVEN THE ETYMOLOGY of the word itself is dim. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Duke Ellington, New Orleans, New York, Louis Armstrong, San Francisco, Johnny Hodges, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Bessie Smith, John Lewis, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Carney, Lawrence Brown, Paul Gonsalves, World War, Cootie Williams, John Coltrane, Ray Nance, Lester Young, Mood Indigo, United States, Jimmy Hamilton, Albert Ayler, Count Basie New!
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EVEN THE ETYMOLOGY of the word itself is dim. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modem jazz, sweet thunder, saxophone section Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Duke Ellington, New Orleans, New York, Louis Armstrong, San Francisco, Johnny Hodges, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Bessie Smith, John Lewis, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Carney, Lawrence Brown, Paul Gonsalves, World War, Cootie Williams, John Coltrane, Ray Nance, Lester Young, Mood Indigo, United States, Jimmy Hamilton, Albert Ayler, Count Basie New!
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- Bessie Smith by P. Oliver on page 45, page 46, and Back Matter
- Celebrating the Duke by Ralph J. Gleason in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck on page 191, and page 192
- Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide (Studies in Jazz) by Eddie Lambert on page 178, and page 180
- Duke Ellington by G. W. Lambert on page 178, and page 180
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