Duke Ellington's America
“Harvey Cohen is the first scholar to make extensive use of the Ellington papers in the Smithsonian Institution, andDuke Ellington's Americais the most detailed and probing examination of Ellington’s later career. It offers sensitive coverage of all of Ellington’s albums and major compositions, particularly after 1960, while virtually every other book on Ellington skirts over or neglects certain productions. Unlike almost all his predecessors, Cohen has produced a book that does justice to the complexity and importance of Duke Ellington’s life.”(Burton Peretti, author of Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Musi)