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| Introduction | |
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| Early Years (1899-1927) | |
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| Ellington on Washington, D. C. (1973) | |
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| The Washingtonians: First New York Review (1923) | |
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| Reviews from the Kentucky Club (1925) | |
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| The Washingtonians "Set New England Dance Crazy" (1927) | |
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| Cotton Club Bandleader (1927-1932) | |
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| First Cotton Club Review (1927) | |
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| R. D. Darrell: Criticism in the Phonograph Monthly Review (1927-1931) | |
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| Abbe Niles on Ellington (1929) | |
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| Two Early Interviews (1930) | |
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| Janet Mabie in the Christian Science Monitor | |
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| Florence Zunser in the New York Evening Graphic | |
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| Ellington's First Article: "The Duke Steps Out" (1931) | |
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| The Ellington Orchestra in Cleveland (1931) | |
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| Ellington Crowned "King of Jazz" by the Pittsburgh Courier (1931) | |
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| A Landmark in Ellington Criticism: R. D. Darrell's "Black Beauty" (1932) | |
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| First Trip Abroad (1933) | |
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| Spike Hughes: Impressions of Ellington in New York (1933) | |
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| Spike Hughes: "Meet the Duke!" (1933) | |
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| Ellington at the Palladium (1933) | |
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| On the Air in London (1933) | |
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| Ellington Defends His Music (1933) | |
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| Hugues Panassie: "Duke Ellington at the Salle Pleyel" (1946) | |
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| Ellington: "My Hunt for Song Titles" (1933) | |
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| Into the Swing Era (1933-1942) | |
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| Wilder Hobson: "Introducing Duke Ellington" (1933) | |
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| The "Secret" of the Ellington Orchestra (1933) | |
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| Warren W. Scholl: Profile of Ellington in the Music Lovers' Guide (1934) | |
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| Roger Pryor Dodge on Black and Tan Fantasy, from "Harpsichords and Jazz Trumpets" (1934) | |
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| Constant Lambert on Ellington (1934) | |
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| Ellington's Response to Lambert (1935) | |
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| Ellington on Gershwin's Porgy and Bess - and a Response from the Office of Irving Mills (1935/1936) | |
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| John Hammond: "The Tragedy of Duke Ellington" (1935) | |
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| Enzo Archetti: "In Defense of Ellington and His 'Reminiscing in Tempo'" (1936) | |
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| Helen Oakley (Dance): The Ellington Orchestra at the Apollo (1936) | |
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| R. D. Darrell: Ellington in an Encyclopedia (1936) | |
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| "Ellington Refutes Cry That Swing Started Sex Crimes!" (1937) | |
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| Aaron Copland on Ellington (1938) | |
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| Ellington: "From Where I Lie" (1938) | |
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| Ellington in Down Beat: On Swing and Its Critics (1939) | |
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| The Parting of Ellington and Irving Mills (1939) | |
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| Wilder Hobson on Ellington, from Jazzmen (1939) | |
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| A Celebrity Interview (1941) | |
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| Ellington: "We, Too, Sing 'America'" (1941) | |
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| Interview in Los Angeles: On Jump for Joy, Opera, and Dissonance as a "Way of Life" (1941) | |
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| Black, Brown and Beige (1943) | |
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| Previews of the First Carnegie Hall Concert (1943) | |
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| Helen Oakley (Dance) in Down Beat | |
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| Howard Taubman in the New York Times Magazine | |
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| Program for the First Carnegie Hall Concert (23 January 1943) | |
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| Two Reviews (1943) | |
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| Paul Bowles in the New York Herald-Tribune | |
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| Mike Levin in Down Beat | |
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| The Debate in Jazz (1943) | |
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| John Hammond: "Is the Duke Deserting Jazz?" | |
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| Leonard Feather: Leonard Feather Rebuts Hammond | |
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| Bob Thiele: "The Case of Jazz Music" | |
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| Black, Brown and Beige in a List of "Classical Records" (1946) | |
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| Robert D. Crowley: "Black, Brown, and Beige After 16 Years" (1959) | |
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| Brian Priestley and Alan Cohen: "Black, Brown and Beige" (1974-1975) | |
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| The Hot Bach (1943-1949) | |
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| Ellington's "Defense of Jazz" (1943/1944) | |
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| Carnegie Revisited (1943/1944) | |
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| Richard O. Boyer: "The Hot Bach" (1944) | |
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| Ellington: "Certainly It's Music!" (1944) | |
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| Ellington: "Swing Is My Beat!" (1944) | |
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| An Ellington Solo Piano Transcription in Down Beat (1944) | |
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| "Why Duke Ellington Avoided Music Schools" (1945) | |
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| "Interpretations in Jazz: A Conference with Duke Ellington" (1947) | |
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| Alec Wilder on Ellington (1948) | |
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| The Fifties | |
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| Ellington's Silver Jubilee in Down Beat (1952) | |
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| Ellington on Career Highlights | |
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| Lists of Favorites | |
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| Billy Strayhorn: "The Ellington Effect" | |
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| Ned Williams on "Early Ellingtonia" | |
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| Irving Mills: "I Split with Duke When Music Began Sidetracking" | |
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| Andre Hodeir: "A Masterpiece: Concerto for Cootie" (1954) | |
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| An African View of Ellington (1955) | |
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| George Avakian: Ellington at Newport (1956) | |
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| Ellington: "The Race for Space" (ca. late 1957) | |
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| Andre Hodeir: "Why Did Ellington 'Remake' His Masterpiece?" (1958) | |
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| Selections from The Jazz Review (1959) | |
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| Mimi Clar: "The Style of Duke Ellington" | |
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| Quincy Jones on Newport 1958 | |
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| Max Harrison on Anatomy of a Murder | |
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| The Late Years (1960-1974) | |
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| Irving Townsend: "When Duke Records" (1960) | |
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| Ellington: "Where Is Jazz Going?" (1962) | |
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| Pete Welding: "On the Road with the Duke Ellington Orchestra" (1962) | |
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| Ellington with Stanley Dance: "The Art Is in the Cooking" (1962) | |
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| Ellington on the Air in Vancouver (1962) | |
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| Eddie Lambert: "Duke Ellington - 1963" (1963) | |
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| A. J. Bishop: "Duke's Creole Rhapsody" (1963) | |
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| Dan Morgenstern on The Ellington Era (1963) | |
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| A. J. Bishop: "'Reminiscing in Tempo': A Landmark in Jazz Composition" (1964) | |
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| Ellington: "Reminiscing in Tempo" (1964) | |
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| Nat Hentoff: "This Cat Needs No Pulitzer Prize" (1965) | |
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| Ellington: "The Most Essential Instrument" (1965) | |
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| Ellington: Program Note for "A Concert of Sacred Music" (1965) | |
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| Rex Stewart at a Recording Session for the First Sacred Concert (1966) | |
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| Gary Giddins on the Sacred Concerts (1975) | |
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| Gary Giddins on The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse (1976) | |
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| Stanley Dance: "The Funeral Address" (1974) | |
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| Selected Commentary and Criticism (1964-1993) | |
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| Max Harrison: "Some Reflections on Ellington's Longer Works" (1964; revised 1991) | |
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| Ralph Ellison: "Homage to Duke Ellington on His Birthday" (1969) | |
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| Martin Williams: "Form Beyond Form" (1970; revised 1983, 1993) | |
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| Albert Murray: From The Hero and the Blues (1973) | |
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| Gunther Schuller: "Ellington in the Pantheon" (1974) | |
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| Gunther Schuller: "The Case for Ellington's Music as Living Repertory" (1974) | |
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| Lawrence Gushee: "Duke Ellington 1940" (1978) | |
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| Stanley Crouch on Such Sweet Thunder, Suite Thursday, and Anatomy of a Murder (1988) | |
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| Ellingtonians | |
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| Helen Oakley (Dance): "Impressions of Johnny Hodges" (1936) | |
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| "The Duke Ellingtons - Cotton Clubbers En Masse" (1937) | |
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| Roger Pryor Dodge on Bubber Miley (1940) | |
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| Ivie Anderson (1942) | |
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| Reactions of a Newcomer: Al Sears Interviewed by George T. Simon (1944) | |
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| Inez M. Cavanaugh: Three Interviews (1945) | |
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| Otto Hardwick | |
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| "Tricky Sam" Nanton | |
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| Rex Stewart | |
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| Double Play: Harry Carney and Johnny Hodges Interviewed by Don DeMichael (1962) | |
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| Rex Stewart: "Illustrious Barney Bigard" (1966) | |
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| Guitarist Freddy Guy Interviewed by John McDonough (1969) | |
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| Sonny Greer Interviewed by Whitney Balliett (1974) | |
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| Gary Giddins on Paul Gonsalves (1985) | |
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| Stanley Crouch on Ben Webster (1986) | |
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| Billy Strayhorn Interviewed by Bill Coss (1962) | |
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| Ellington: "Eulogy for Swee' Pea" (1967) | |
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| Topical Index of Selections | |
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| General Index | |