The Duke Ellington ReaderOxford University Press, 1993 - 536 páginas Duke Ellington is universally recognized as one of the towering figures of 20th-century music, both a brilliant composer and one of the preeminent musicians in jazz history. From early pieces such as East St. Louis Toodle-O, Black and Tan Fantasy, It Don't Mean a Thing, and Mood Indigo, to his more complex works such as Reminiscing in Tempo and Black, Brown and Beige, to his later suites and sacred concerts, he left an indelible mark on the musical world. Now, in The Duke Ellington Reader, Mark Tucker offers the first historical anthology of writings about this major African-American musician. The volume includes over a hundred selections--interviews, critical essays, reviews, memoirs, and over a dozen writings by Ellington himself--with generous introductions and annotations for each selection provided by the editor. The result is a unique sourcebook that illuminates Ellington's work and reveals the profound impact his music has made on listeners over the years. The writers gathered here represent a Who's Who of jazz criticism: Gunther Schuller, Whitney Balliett, Martin Williams, Gary Giddins, Stanley Crouch, Albert Murray, Nat Hentoff, Hugues Panassie, Stanley Dance, to name just a few. Their writings span Ellington's entire career, from the days when Duke Ellington's Washingtonians appeared at New York's Club Kentucky ("Probably the 'hottest' band this side of the equator"), to the Duke's glorious reign at the Cotton Club, to his later years as global ambassador of American music. Tucker has included some of the classic essays written about Ellington, such as R. D. Darrell's "Black Beauty," the first significant critical essay on Ellington's work and still one of the most important; Richard O. Boyer's lengthy New Yorker profile "The Hot Bach," printed here in its entirety; and Martin Williams's "Form Beyond Form," one of the best capsule introductions to Ellington's art. Throughout the book, the reader receives a balanced overview of Ellington's life as composer and performer, as public personality and private individual. Tucker provides a number of pieces on Ellington's compositions, including an entire chapter devoted to critical response to Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige, and there are also many moving pieces on Ellington the man, such as Ralph Ellison's tribute to Ellington on his 70th birthday, and Stanley Dance's funeral address. Finally, Tucker rounds out the collection with profiles on many of the outstanding musicians who worked with Ellington, among them Johnny Hodges, Bubber Miley, Billy Strayhorn, Ivie Anderson, Sonny Greer, Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, and Ben Webster. This is a landmark volume in jazz criticism, a kaleidoscopic portrait of Duke Ellington's creative world, documenting his extraordinary achievements as composer, songwriter, bandleader, and pianist. It is an essential companion for Ellington enthusiasts, jazz fans, and serious students of American music. |
Contenido
Early Years 18991927 | 3 |
First New York Review 1923 | 21 |
Cotton Club Bandleader 19271932 | 29 |
Abbé Niles on Ellington 1929 | 40 |
The Duke Steps Out 1931 | 46 |
Ellington Crowned King of Jazz | 54 |
First Trip Abroad 1933 | 67 |
Ellington at the Palladium 1933 | 75 |
An African View of Ellington 1955 | 289 |
Ellington at Newport 1956 | 290 |
The Race for Space ca late 1957 | 293 |
Why Did Ellington Remake His Masterpiece? 1958 | 297 |
Selections from The Jazz Review 1959 | 302 |
The Style of Duke Ellington | 303 |
Quincy Jones on Newport 1958 | 311 |
Max Harrison on Anatomy of a Murder | 313 |
Duke Ellington at the Salle Pleyel 1946 | 81 |
My Hunt for Song Titles 1933 | 87 |
Introducing Duke Ellington 1933 | 93 |
Black Brown and Beige 1943 | 153 |
Program for the First Carnegie Hall Concert | 160 |
The Debate in Jazz 1943 | 170 |
Black Brown and Beige in a List | 178 |
The Hot Bach 19431949 | 205 |
Ellingtons Defense of Jazz 19431944 | 207 |
Carnegie Revisited 19431944 | 209 |
The Hot Bach 1944 | 214 |
Certainly Its Music 1944 | 246 |
Swing Is My Beat 1944 | 248 |
An Ellington Solo Piano Transcription in Down Beat 1944 | 250 |
Why Duke Ellington Avoided Music Schools 1945 | 252 |
A Conference with Duke Ellington 1947 | 255 |
Alec Wilder on Ellington 1948 | 258 |
The Fifties | 263 |
Ellingtons Silver Jubilee in Down Beat 1952 | 265 |
Lists of Favorites | 268 |
The Ellington Effect | 269 |
Ned Williams on Early Ellingtonia | 271 |
I Split with Duke When Music Began Sidetracking | 274 |
A Masterpiece Concerto for Cootie 1954 | 276 |
The Late Years 19601974 | 317 |
When Duke Records 1960 | 319 |
Where Is Jazz Going? 1962 | 324 |
On the Road with the Duke Ellington Orchestra 1962 | 326 |
The Art Is in the Cooking 1962 | 332 |
Ellington on the Air in Vancouver 1962 | 338 |
Duke Ellington1963 1963 | 342 |
Dukes Creole Rhapsody 1963 | 347 |
Dan Morgenstern on The Ellington Era 1963 | 350 |
Rex Stewart at a Recording Session for the First | 373 |
Gary Giddins on The AfroEurasian Eclipse 1976 | 379 |
Homage to Duke Ellington | 394 |
Form Beyond Form | 400 |
From The Hero and the Blues 1973 | 412 |
The Case for Ellingtons Music | 418 |
Stanley Crouch on Such Sweet Thunder Suite Thursday | 439 |
Ellingtonians | 447 |
Roger Pryor Dodge on Bubber Miley 1940 | 454 |
Al Sears Interviewed | 460 |
Rex Stewart | 468 |
Illustrious Barney Bigard 1966 | 476 |
Sonny Greer Interviewed by Whitney Balliett 1974 | 486 |
Eulogy for Swee Pea 1967 | 504 |
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