Biographies, Jazz, Blues, & World Artists, Duke Ellington

Few publications among the literature on Duke Ellington to have appeared in recent years ... can claim to have shed as much light on their subject as the impressive collection of essays assembled... — Music and Letters More…

Few publications among the literature on Duke Ellington to have appeared in recent years ... can claim to have shed as much light on their subject as the impressive collection of essays assembled... — Music and Letters More…

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... — Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association More…

Helps enlarge our understanding of the collaboration that bound Ellington and his musicians — The New York Times More…