Duke A Portrait of Duke Ellington

Name: Duke A Portrait of Duke Ellington
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ISBN: 9780393009736

ISBN-10: 0393009734

ISBN-13: 9780393009736

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Derek Jewell

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Edward Kennedy Ellington, the Duke. As a musician, there has been no other artist quite like him. His expansive talent poured out more than five thousand compositions, from all-time pop songs like Sophisticated Lady and Solitude to major suites and musicals. Derek Jewell had admired Ellington for thirty years, knew him well in the later years of his life, talked with him and watched him at work in many environments. His story starts in turn-of-the-century Washington, when jazz was growing under the fingers of poolroom maestros, moves on to the hustling night life of Prohibition, and then develops into a portrait of Ellington the international celebrity, equally at ease in smoky clubs or…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English