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Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington

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Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington"The analyses of both Ellington's music and his enigmatic personality are delineated with rare insight." Leonard Feather, author of The Encyclopedia of Jazz One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Duke Ellington (1899 1974) led a fascinating life. Beyond Category, the first biography to draw on the vast Duke Ellington archives at the Smithsonian Institution, recounts his remarkable career: his childhood in Washington, D. C., and his musical

"The analyses of both Ellington's music and his enigmatic personality are delineated with rare insight."--Leonard Feather, author of The Encyclopedia of Jazz
One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Duke Ellington (1899-1974) led a fascinating life. Beyond Category, the first biography to draw on the vast Duke Ellington archives at the Smithsonian Institution, recounts his remarkable career: his childhood in Washington, D.C., and his musical apprenticeship in Harlem; his long engagement at the Cotton Club; the challenging years of the depression; his tours to Europe and into America's deep South, where he helped lower racial barriers; the postwar years when television and bebop threatened to eclipse the big bands; Ellington's own triumphant comeback at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival; his collaborations with Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Hodges, and Ella Fitzgerald; as well as five decades of hits and masterpieces that constantly broke new ground.
The art of Duke Ellington was a musical expression of the African-American experience, in all its pain, pride, and glory. He composed his music as he composed his life-with flair, passion, and individuality-and no book reveals the man and his artistic evolution more brilliantly than Beyond Category.
Foreword by Wynton Marsalis


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 03/22/1995
ISBN: 9780306806148
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.00w x 1.60d
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