| Description |
xv, 522 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue -- The road |
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ACT EIGHT. Music and the future -- What's happening? -- Jazz for young people -- At the White House -- Public relations -- Music and the primeval -- Retire to what? -- Pedestrian minstrel |
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ACT FIVE. Jump for joy extension -- Doctors and surgeons -- I miss -- What is music? -- I really never miss -- Dramatis felidae : Cat Anderson ; Joya Sherrill ; Kay Davis ; Marie Ellington ; Jimmy Hamilton ; Paul Gonsalves ; Shorty Baker ; Russell Procope ; Betty Roché ; Al Hibbler ; Wini Brown ; Louis Bellson ; Jimmy Woode ; Sammy Woodyard ; Jimmy Grissom ; John Sanders ; Willie Cook ; Clark Terry ; Ernie Shepard ; Joe Turner ; Jimmy Rushing ; Stepin Fetchit [Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry] ; Jimmy Jones ; Louis Armstrong and Joe Glaser ; Ella Fitzgerald and Norman Granz ; Frank Sinatra ; Orson Welles ; Jo Jones ; Joe Williams ; Charles Mingus ; Dizzy Gillespie, Miles [Davis], and 'Trane [that is, John Coltrane] ; Frank Holzfeind ; Irving Townsend ; George Wein ; Jimmy Lyons ; Timme Rosenkranz ; Tony Bennett ; Coleman Hawkins ; Billy Eckstine ; Mahalia Jackson |
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ACT FOUR. Formative years adjusted -- Dramatis felidae : Billy Strayhorn ; Ray Nance ; Ben Webster ; Jimmy Blanton ; Herb Jeffries ; Lena Horne ; Mary Lou Williams ; Art Tatum ; Charlie Barnet ; Mrs. Fitzpatrick White |
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ACT ONE. Rollin' [that is, Rolling] -- Washington -- Categories -- Music -- Dramatis felidae : Mercer Ellington ; Ruth Dorothea Ellington ; Sidney Bechet ; Fletcher Henderson ; Otto Hardwick ; Sonny Greer ; Elmer Snowden ; Arthur Whetsol ; Juan Tizol ; Jerry Rhea |
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ACT SEVEN. San Francisco -- Hooked -- Notes on the State Department tour, 1963 -- Nipponese journal, 1964-1970 -- Dakar journal, 1966 -- Goutelas journal, 1966 -- Latin American journal, 1968 -- Mexican journal, 1968 -- Walls -- Prague journal, 1969 -- Russian journal, 1971 -- Latin American journal, 1971 -- Pacific journal, 1972 -- The Taste Buds -- Dramatis felidae : Rufus Jones ; Elma Lewis ; Herbie Jones ; Harold Ashby ; Wild Bill Davis ; Bob Udkoff ; James Latimer |
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ACT SIX. Civilization -- Seeing God -- The sacred concerts -- Acclaim -- Dramatis felidae : Brock Peters ; Alice Babs ; Tony Watkins ; Tom Whaley |
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ACT THREE. The city of jazz -- Chicago -- Toronto -- London -- Paris |
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ACT TWO. Night life -- New York City -- The Big Apple -- Dramatis felidae : Willie "The Lion" Smith ; Mexico ; James P. Johnson ; Don Redman ; Will Marion Cook ; Will Vodery ; Charles Shribman ; Chick Webb ; Count Basie ; Lonnie Johnson ; Maceo Pinkard ; Paul Whiteman ; Luckeyeth Roberts ; George Gershwin ; Bubber Miley ; Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton ; Freddy Guy ; Harry Carney ; Barney Bigard and Wellman Braud ; Johnny Hodges ; Cootie Williams ; Freddy Jenkins ; Lawrence Brown ; Ivie Anderson ; Rex Stewart ; Richard Bowden Jones |
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Appendices : The singers ; Arrangers and lyricists ; The symphony orchestra ; Band boys and barbers ; Honors and awards ; Selected discography ; Compositions ; Bibliography |
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Epilogue -- The mirrored self |
| Summary |
Contains primary source material |
| Analysis |
Ellington, Duke 1899-1974 |
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Jazz musicians United States Biography |
| Notes |
"Selected discography" : p. 491-492: "Compositions" : p. 493-522 |
| Bibliography |
"Selected discography": pages 491-492; "compositions": pages 493-522 |
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Bibliography: page [523] |
| Subject |
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
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Composers -- United States -- Biography.
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Jazz musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Musicians -- Biography.
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Musicians -- Correspondence.
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Fairy tales.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| LC no. |
73083189 |
| ISBN |
0385022352 |
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