Duke A Life of Duke Ellington

Name: Duke A Life of Duke Ellington
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ISBN: 9781592408801

ISBN-10: 159240880X

ISBN-13: 9781592408801

Edition: N/A

Authors: Terry Teachout

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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 centuryand 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…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/4/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English