The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
- Editor: Green, Edward
This Cambridge Companion helps the reader see two divide-and-conquer approaches to his artistic oeuvre: by decade, and by genres such as suites, songs, and the blues. Elling-tonians and professors... — More…
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Contents
- Chronology Evan Spring; Editor's
- introduction Ellington and Aesthetic Realism Edward Green;
- Part I . Ellington in Context:
- 1. Artful entertainment: Ellington's formative years in context John Howland;
- 2. The process of becoming: composition and recomposition David Berger;
- 3. Conductor of music and men: Duke Ellington through the eyes of his nephew Stephen D. James and J. Walker James;
- 4. Ellington abroad Brian Priestley;
- 5. Edward Kennedy Ellington as a cultural icon Olly W. Wilson and Trevor Weston;
- Part II . Duke Through the Decades: The Music and Its Reception:
- 6. Ellington's afro-modernist vision in the 1920s Jeffrey Magee;
- 7. Survival, adaptation and experimentation: Duke Ellington and his orchestra in the 1930s Andrew Berish;
- 8. The 1940s: The Blanton-Webster Band, Carnegie Hall, and the challenge of the postwar era Anna Harwell Celenza;
- 9. Duke in the 1950s: renaissance man Anthony Brown;
- 10. Ellington in the 1960s and 1970s: triumph and tragedy Dan Morgenstern;
- Part III . Ellington and the Jazz Tradition:
- 11. Ellington and the blues Benjamin Givan;
- 12. 'Seldom seen, but always heard': Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington Walter van de Leur;
- 13. Duke Ellington and the world of jazz piano Bill Dobbins;
- 14. Duke and descriptive music Marcello Piras;
- 15. Sing a song of Ellington, or, the accidental songwriter Will Friedwald;
- 16. The land of suites: Ellington and extended form David Berger;
- 17. Duke Ellington's legacy and influence Benjamin Bierman.