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Music is my mistress / by Edward Kennedy Ellington.
Van Pelt - Class of 1979 Seminar Room (305) ML410.E44 A3 1976
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LIBRA ML410.E44 A3 1976
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
- Series:
- Da Capo paperback
- A Da Capo paperback
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
- Ellington, Duke.
- Jazz musicians--Correspondence.
- Jazz musicians.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 522 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Da Capo Press, 1976.
- Summary:
- This is the story of Duke Ellington--the story of Jazz itself. Told in his own way, in his own words, a symphony written by the King of Jazz. His story spans and defines a half-century of modern music.
- Contents:
- The Road x
- Rollin' 3
- Washington 6
- Categories 38
- Music 39
- Dramatis Felidae 41
- Mercer Ellington 41
- Ruth Dorothea Ellington 44
- Sidney Bechet 47
- Fletcher Henderson 49
- Otto Hardwick 50
- Sonny Greer 51
- Elmer Snowden 53
- Arthur Whetsol 54
- Juan Tizol 55
- Jerry Rhea 57
- Night Life 63
- New York City 65
- The Big Apple 69
- Dramatis Felidae 90
- Willie "The Lion" Smith 90
- Mexico 92
- James P. Johnson 93
- Don Redman 95
- Will Marion Cook 95
- Will Vodery 97
- Charles Shribman 98
- Chick Webb 99
- Count Basie 100
- Lonnie Johnson 102
- Maceo Pinkard 102
- Paul Whiteman 103
- Luckeyeth Roberts 104
- George Gershwin 104
- Bubber Miley 106
- Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton 106
- Freddy Guy 109
- Harry Carney 109
- Barney Bigard and Wellman Braud 114
- Johnny Hodges 116
- Cootie Williams 119
- Freddy Jenkins 121
- Lawrence Brown 122
- Ivie Anderson 122
- Rex Stewart 124
- Richard Bowden Jones 125
- The City of Jazz 129
- Chicago 131
- Toronto 136
- London 139
- Paris 141
- Formative Years Adjusted 149
- Dramatis Felidae 156
- Billy Strayhorn 156
- Ray Nance 162
- Ben Webster 163
- Jimmy Blanton 164
- Herb Jeffries 166
- Lena Horne 167
- Mary Lou Williams 167
- Art Tatum 169
- Charlie Barnet 171
- Mrs. Fitzpatrick White 171
- Jump for Joy Extension 175
- Doctors and Surgeons 205
- I Miss 211
- What Is Music? 212
- I Really Never Miss 214
- Dramatis Felidae 216
- Cat Anderson 216
- Joya Sherrill 216
- Kay Davis 219
- Marie Ellington 220
- Jimmy Hamilton 220
- Paul Gonsalves 221
- Shorty Baker 221
- Russell Procope 222
- Betty Roche 222
- Al Hibbler 223
- Wini Brown 224
- Louis Bellson 225
- Jimmy Woode 226
- Sam Woodyard 227
- Jimmy Grissom 228
- John Sanders 228
- Willie Cook 229
- Clark Terry 229
- Ernie Shepard 230
- Joe Turner 232
- Jimmy Rushing 232
- Stepin Fetchit 233
- Jimmy Jones 234
- Louis Armstrong and Joe Glaser 234
- Ella Fitzgerald and Norman Granz 236
- Frank Sinatra 238
- Orson Welles 239
- Jo Jones 241
- Joe Williams 242
- Charles Mingus 242
- Dizzy Gillespie, Miles, and 'Trane 244
- Frank Holzfeind 245
- Irving Townsend 247
- George Wein 248
- Jimmy Lyons 248
- Timme Rosenkranz 249
- Tony Bennett 249
- Coleman Hawkins 252
- Billy Eckstine 254
- Mahalia Jackson 255
- Civilization 259
- Seeing God 260
- The Sacred Concerts 261
- Acclaim 286
- Dramatis Felidae 287
- Brock Peters 287
- Alice Babs 287
- Tony Watkins 288
- Tom Whaley 291
- San Francisco 295
- Hooked 298
- Notes on the State Department Tour, 1963 301
- Nipponese Journal, 1964-70 331
- Dakar Journal, 1966 337
- Goutelas Journal, 1966 340
- Latin American Journal, 1968 347
- Mexican Journal, 1968 356
- Walls 360
- Prague Journal, 1969 362
- Russian Journal, 1971 364
- Latin American Journal, 1971 375
- Pacific Journal, 1972 381
- The Taste Buds 390
- Dramatis Felidae 402
- Rufus Jones 402
- Elma Lewis 402
- Herbie Jones 403
- Harold Ashby 403
- Wild Bill Davis 404
- Bob Udkoff 405
- James Latimer 405
- Music and the Future 411
- What's Happening? 413
- Jazz for Young People 415
- At the White House 424
- Public Relations 434
- Music and the Primeval 436
- Retire to What? 438
- Pedestrian Minstrel 441
- The Mirrored Self 451
- The Singers 474
- Arrangers and Lyricists 474
- The Symphony Orchestras 474
- Band Boys and Barbers 475
- Honors and Awards 476
- Selected Discography 491
- Compositions 493.
- Notes:
- Reprint of the ed. published by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y.
- Discography: pages 491-522.
- Bibliography: page [1].
- ISBN:
- 0306800330
- OCLC:
- 2329341
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