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Duke : a life of Duke Ellington / Terry Teachout. by Teachout, Terry. Gotham Books, 2013. Call #: 781.65092 E46t Subjects Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.   Jazz musicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Jazz musicians, Black -- Biography.   Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.   Jazz musicians -- Biography.   Musicians, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Musicians, Black -- Biography.   Pianists -- United States -- Biography.   Composers, Black -- United States -- Biography.   Composers -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9781592407491 (hc.) 1592407498 (hc.) Alternate title:  Life of Duke Ellington. Description:  483 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes:  Color illustrations on lining papers. Bibliography:  Includes discography (pages 365-368), bibliographical references (pages 369-464), and index. Contents:  "I want to tell America" -- "I just couldn't be shackled" : fortunate son, 1899-1917 -- "Soft and gut-bucket" : becoming a professional, 1917-1926 -- "Only my own music" : with Irving Mills, 1926-1927 -- "The utmost significance" : at the Cotton Club, 1927-1929 -- "I better scratch out something" : becoming a genius, 1929-1930 -- "A higher plateau" : becoming a star, 1931-1933 -- "The way the President travels" : on the road, 1933-1936 -- "Swing is stagnant" : diminuendo in blue, 1939-1939 -- "The eyes in the back of my head" : with Billy Strayhorn, 1938-1939 -- "The sea of expectancy" : the Blanton-Webster band, 1939-1940 -- "A message for the world" : jump for joy, 1941-1942 -- "I don't write jazz" : Carnegie Hall, 1942-1946 -- "More a business than an art" : into the wilderness, 1946-1955 -- "I was born in 1956" : crescendo in blue, 1955-1950 -- "Fate's being kind to me" : apotheosis, 1960-1967 -- "That big yawning void" : alone in a crowd, 1967-1974 -- Appendix. Fifty key recordings by Duke Ellington. Summary:  "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. 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.'"--Amazon.com. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Home Delivery - HN Adult Biography 781.65092 E46t Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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