The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington

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.