Duke Ellington's America /
Cohen, Harvey G.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Washington/New York -- The marketing plan -- Serious listening -- Credits/exit mills -- Swingin' -- Black, brown, and beige -- Postwar struggles -- Reinvention and nadir -- Rebirth -- Money -- My people -- 1963 State Department tour -- Sacred concerts -- Fighting nostalgia -- 1970s state tours -- Final days.
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
African American jazz musicians