Duke Ellington /
The definitive critical biography of one of the greatest geniuses of jazz. James Collier has produced a fascinating work which tells the full story of Edward Kennedy Ellington, from his middle-class childhood to his death in 1974
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1987
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Table of Contents:
- Childhood
- Introduction to music
- New York
- The move downtown
- Duke takes over
- Enter Irving Mills
- The Cotton Club
- Becoming celebrated
- The Ellington style takes shape
- On the road
- "Mood indigo"
- The trip to England
- Duke faces the Swing Era
- Concertos and small groups
- New additions to the band
- Black, brown, and Beige
- The early 1940s recordings
- The old hands begin to depart
- Decline and fall
- The last band
- The concert pieces
- The Sacred concerts
- The final days