The Duke Ellington reader / edited by Mark Tucker.

Other author Tucker, Mark, 1954-2000, editor.
Other author Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, ©1993.
Descriptionxxi, 536 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974--Criticism and interpretation.
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
Jazz--History and criticism.

Contents Early years (1899-1927). Ellington on Washington, D.C. (1973) -- The Washingtonians: first New York review (1923) -- Reviews from the Kentucky Club (1925) -- The Washingtonians "Set New England dance crazy" (1927) -- Cotton Club bandleader (1927-1932). First Cotton Club review (1927) -- Criticism in the Phonograph Monthly Review (1927-1931) / R.D. Darrell -- Abbe Niles on Ellington (1929) -- Two early interviews (1930). Janet Mabie in the Christian Science Monitor ; Florence Zunser in the New York Evening Graphic -- Ellington's first article: "The Duke steps out" (1931) -- The Ellington orchestra in Cleveland (1931) -- Ellington crowned "King of jazz" by the Pittsburgh Courier (1931) -- A landmark in Ellington criticism: R.D. Darrell's "Black beauty" (1932) -- First trip abroad (1933). Impressions of Ellington in New York (1933) / Spike Hughes -- "Meet the Duke!" (1933) / Spike Hughes -- Ellington at the palladium (1933) -- On the air in London (1933) -- Ellington defends his music (1933) -- "Duke Ellington at the Salle Pleyel" (1946) / Hugues Panassie -- "My hunt for song titles" (1933) / Ellington -- Into the swing era (1933-1942). "Introducing Duke Ellington" (1933) / Wilder Hobson -- The "Secret of the Ellington orchestra" (1933) -- Profile of Ellington in the Music Lovers' Guide (1934) / Warren W. Scholl -- Roger Pryor Dodge on Black and Tan Fantasy, from "Harpsichords and jazz trumpets" (1934) -- Ellington's response to Lambert (1935) -- Ellington on Gershwin's Porgy and Bess - and a response from the office of Irving Mills (1935/1936) -- "The tragedy of Duke Ellington" (1935) / John Hammond -- "In defense of Ellington and his 'reminiscing in tempo'" (1936) / Enzo Archetti -- The Ellington orchestra at the Apollo (1936) / Helen Oakley (dance) -- Ellington in an encyclopedia (1936) / R.D. Darrell -- "Ellington refutes the cry that swing started sex crimes!" (1937) -- Aaron Copland on Ellington (1938) -- "From where I lie" (1938) / Ellington -- Ellington in Down Beat: on swing and its critics (1939) -- The parting of Ellington and Irving Mills (1939) -- Wilder Hobson on Ellington, from Jazzmen (1939) -- A celebrity interview (1941) -- "We, too, sing, 'America'" (1941) -- Interview in Los Angeles: on Jump for Joy, opera, and dissonance as a "way of life" (1941) -- Black, Brown and Beige. Previews of the first Carnegie Hall concert (1945). Helen Oakley (dance) in Down Beat ; Howard Taubman in the New York Times Magazine -- Program for the first Carnegie Hall concert (23 January 1943) -- Two reviews (1943). Paul Bowles in the New York Herald-Tribune ; Mike Levin in Down Beat -- The debate in Jazz (1943). "Is the Duke deserting jazz?" / John Hammond ; Leonard Feather rebuts Hammond / Leonard Feather ; "The case of jazz music" / Bob Thiele -- Black, Brown and Beige in a list of "Classical recordings" (1946) -- "Black, Brown and Beige after 16 years" (1959) / Robert D. Crowley -- "Black, brown & beige" (1974-1975) / Brian Priestley and Alan Cohen -- The hot Bach (1943-1949). Ellington's "Defense of Jazz" (1943/1944) -- Carnegie revisited (1943/1944) -- "The hot Bach" (1944) / Ricard O. Boyer -- "Certainly it's music!" (1944) / Ellington -- "Swing is my beat!" (1944) / Ellington -- An Ellington solo piano transcription in Down Beat (1944) -- "Why Duke Ellington avoided music schools" (1945) -- "Interpretations in jazz: a conference with Duke Ellington" (1947) -- Alec Wilder on Ellington (1948) -- The fifties. Ellington's silver jubilee in Down Beat (1952). Ellington on career highlights ; Lists of favorites ; "The Ellington effect" / Billy Strayhorn ; Ned Williams on "Early Ellingtonia" ; "I split with Duke when music began sidetracking" / Irving Mills -- "A masterpiece: Concerto for Cootie" (1954) / Andre Hodeir -- An African view of Ellington (1955) -- Ellington at Newport (1956) / George Avakian -- "The race for space" (ca. late 1957) / Ellington -- "Why did Ellington 'remake' his masterpiece?" (1958) / Andre Hodeir -- Selections from The Jazz Review (1959). "The style of Duke Ellington" / Mimi Clar ; Quincy Jones on Newport 1958 ; Max Harrison on Anatomy of a Murder -- Late years (1960-1974). "When Duke records" (1960) / Irving Townsend -- "Where is jazz going?" (1962) / Ellington -- "On the road with the Duke Ellington orchestra" (1962) / Pete Welding -- "The art is in the cooking" (1932) / Ellington with Stanley Dance -- Ellington on the air in Vancouver (1962) -- "Duke Ellington - 1963" (1963) / Eddie Lambert -- "Duke's Creole Rhapsody" (1963) / A.J. Bishop -- Dan Morgenstern on The Ellington Era (1963) -- "'Reminiscing in tempo': a landmark in jazz composition" (1964) / A.J. Bishop -- "Reminiscing in tempo" (1964) / Ellington -- "This cat needs no Pulitzer prize" (1965) / Nat Hentoff -- "The most essential instrument" (1965) / Ellington -- Program note for "A concert of sacred music" (1965) / Ellington -- Rex Stewart at a recording session for the first sacred concert (1966) -- Gary Giddins on the sacred concerts (1975) -- Gary Giddins on the Afro-Eurasian Eclipse (1976) -- "The funeral address" (1974) / Stanley Dance -- Selected commentary and criticism (1964-1993). "Some reflections on Ellington's longer works" (1964; revised 1991) / Max Harrison -- "Homage to Duke Ellington on his birthday" (1969) / Ralph Ellison -- "Form beyond form" (1970; revised 1983, 1993) / Martin Williams -- From The Hero and the Blues (1973) / Albert Murray -- "Ellington in the pantheon" (1974) / Gunther Schuller -- "The case for Ellington's music as living repertory" (1974) / Gunther Schuller -- "Duke Ellington 1940" (1978) / Lawrence Gushee -- Stanley Crouch on Such Sweet Thunder, Suite Thursday, and Anatomy of a Murder (1988) -- Ellingtonians. "Impressions of Johnny Hodges" (1936) / Helen Oakley (Dance) -- "The Duke Ellingtons - Cotton Clubbers en masse" (1937) -- Roger Pryor Dodge on Bubber Miley (1940) -- Ivie Anderson (1942) -- Reactions of a newcomer: Al Sears interviewed by George T. Simon (1944) -- Three interview (1945) / Inez M. Cavanaugh. Otto Hardwick ; "Tricky Sam" Nanton ; Rex Stewart -- Double play: Harry Carney an Johnny Hodges interviewed by Don DeMichael (1962) -- "Illustrious Barney Bigard" (1966) / Rex Stewart -- Guitarist Freddy Guy interviewed by John McDonough (1969) -- Sonny Greer interviewed by Whitney Balliett (1974) -- Gary Giddins on Paul Gonsalves (1985) -- Stanley Crouch on Ben Webster (1986) -- Billy Strayhorn interviewed by Bill Cross (1962) -- "Eulogy for Swee' Pea" (1967) / Ellington.
Abstract A collection of writings by and about Duke Ellington and his place in jazz history.
Local noteLittle-287429--305130049345.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 92037233
ISBN0195054105 (acid-free paper) :
ISBN0195054105

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