Music Is My Mistress

Author : Duke Ellington
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music Is My Mistress written by Duke Ellington and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1976-02-21 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not a chronological autobiography, but an organized set of eight acts, each of which is driven by entertaining annecdotes about the many people who colored the life of this jazz great. Lists more than 1,500 of Ellington's compositions.

Author : Duke Ellington
Publisher : W H Allen
ISBN 13 : 9780491017206
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music is My Mistress written by Duke Ellington and published by W H Allen. This book was released on 1974 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note: Includes a selected discography, list of compositions, and bibliography.

Author : Terry Teachout
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698138589
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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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 : Ellington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duke Ellington written by Ellington and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Tucker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195093919
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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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 : Duke Ellington
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Music Is My Mistress written by Duke Ellington and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1976-02-21 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not a chronological autobiography, but an organized set of eight acts, each of which is driven by entertaining annecdotes about the many people who colored the life of this jazz great. Lists more than 1,500 of Ellington's compositions.

Author : A. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135880611
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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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 : H. F. Huon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Index to Duke Ellington's Music is My Mistress written by H. F. Huon and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harvey G. Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226112659
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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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 : Mercer Ellington
Publisher : Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company
ISBN 13 : 9780395257111
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duke Ellington in Person written by Mercer Ellington and published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: