Leonard Feather Interview
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content: Leonard Feather Interview,6 October 1990

RTC 2: Side A
Running Time: 30:00

• Strayhorn (continued)
• Esquire Stars recording (?)
• Ellington and Strayhorn working relationship; why Strayhorn didn't perform as pianist for the orchestra more.
• Ellington/Strayhorn - question about composing credits.
• Second stint in 1950 --about 1952 with Ellington at Tempo Music and then a small record company with Mercer called Mercer Records; became a friend of Mercer's.
• Ellington/Mercer relationship.
• Tempo Music Company.

RTC 2: Side B  (starts 2:00 minutes in)
Running Time: 28:00

•Mercer Records
• Irving Townsend/Ellington relationship beginning in 1956.
• Feather pieces that ended up in the Ellington Orchestra repertoire.
• John Hammond/Ellington relationship.
• Ellington as a man of contradictions.
• Feather's move to Los Angeles and effect on relationship with Ellington.
• Memories of Johnny Hodges leaving the Ellington Orchestra.
• Integrating the Ellington Orchestra --1951 Louis Bellson joins.
• Norman Granz/Ellington relationship.
• Joe Glaser booked Ellington, but an Armstrong man first and forever.
• Race as it shaped Ellington's career and music.
• Ellington as a significant 20th century musical figure.
name: label: Collection Interviewer
content: Hasse, John Edward, 1948-
label: Collection Interviewer
content: Willard, Patricia
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content: Jazz Oral History Collection about Duke Ellington
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content: Jazz Oral History Collection about Duke Ellington / Series 1: Interviews / 1.1: Leonard Feather Interview
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content: 1 Cassette tape
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content: 1990-10-06
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content: Box 1, Tape 2
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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