Duke
Subtitle: a life of Duke Ellington
By: Terry Teachout
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
ISBN-13: 9781592407491
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Biography; Jazz musicians
Other titles: Life of Duke Ellington
Description: An account of the public and private lives of the eminent jazz artist.
Notes: "Fifty key recordings by Duke Ellington": pages 365-368.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-382), discography (pages 365-368), and index.
Table of contents: title: "I want to tell America"; title: "I just couldn't be shackled" : fortunate son, 1899-1917; title: "Soft and gut-bucket" : becoming a professional, 1917-1926; title: "Only my own music" : with Irving Mills, 1926-1927; title: "The utmost significance" : at the Cotton Club, 1927-1929; title: "I better scratch out something" : becoming a genius, 1929-1930; title: "A higher plateau" : becoming a star, 1931-1933; title: "The way the President travels" : on the road, 1933-1936; title: "Swing is stagnant" : diminuendo in blue, 1936-1939; title: "The eyes in the back of my head" : with Billy Strayhorn, 1938-1939; title: "The sea of expectancy" : the Blanton-Webster band, 1939-1940; title: "A message for the world" : jump for joy, 1941-1942; title: "I don't write jazz" : Carnegie Hall, 1942-1946; title: "More a business than an art" : into the wilderness, 1946-1955; title: "I was born in 1956" : crescendo in blue, 1955-1960; title: "Fate's being kind to me" : apotheosis, 1960-1967; title: "That big yawning void" : alone in a crowd, 1967-1974.