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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.
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Perhaps America's greatest composer and musician, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) is the subject of several biographies and an autobiography, Music Is My Mistress (1973). This first historical anthology of writings about Ellington's life and music, ably edited by Columbia University music professor Tucker ( Ellington: The Early Years ), is a treasure chest of some 100 essays and remembrances by such authors as Ralph Ellison, Gunther Schuller, Stanley Crouch, Nat Hentoff, Albert Murray and Stanley Dance. Topically, the essays, originally published between 1923 and 1986, include general commentary (by R. D. Darrell, Martin Williams and others), musical analysis (a chapter on Ellington's composition, "Black, Brown and Beige"), more than a dozen interviews with Ellington, profiles of Ellington band members (Johnny Hodges, Billy Strayhorn, Ivie Anderson, Sonny Greer and Ben Webster), reviews of performances and recordings (including the first published reviews of Ellington's music), and some of Duke's own writings. The volume also includes the complete text of Richard O. Boyer's 1944 New Yorker profile.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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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.
From Publishers Weekly
Perhaps America's greatest composer and musician, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) is the subject of several biographies and an autobiography, Music Is My Mistress (1973). This first historical anthology of writings about Ellington's life and music, ably edited by Columbia University music professor Tucker ( Ellington: The Early Years ), is a treasure chest of some 100 essays and remembrances by such authors as Ralph Ellison, Gunther Schuller, Stanley Crouch, Nat Hentoff, Albert Murray and Stanley Dance. Topically, the essays, originally published between 1923 and 1986, include general commentary (by R. D. Darrell, Martin Williams and others), musical analysis (a chapter on Ellington's composition, "Black, Brown and Beige"), more than a dozen interviews with Ellington, profiles of Ellington band members (Johnny Hodges, Billy Strayhorn, Ivie Anderson, Sonny Greer and Ben Webster), reviews of performances and recordings (including the first published reviews of Ellington's music), and some of Duke's own writings. The volume also includes the complete text of Richard O. Boyer's 1944 New Yorker profile.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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