Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
- Series page
- Frontispiece
- The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Duke Ellington chronology
- Editor’s introduction: Ellington and Aesthetic Realism
- Part I Ellington in context
- 1 Artful entertainment: Ellington’s formative years in context
- 2 The process of becoming: composition and recomposition
- 3 Conductor of music and men: Duke Ellington through the eyes of his nephew
- 4 Ellington abroad
- 5 Edward Kennedy Ellington as a cultural icon
- Part II Duke through the decades: the music and its reception
- Part III Ellington and the jazz tradition
- Select bibliography
- Index
3 - Conductor of music and men: Duke Ellington through the eyes of his nephew
from Part I - Ellington in context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
- The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
- Series page
- Frontispiece
- The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Duke Ellington chronology
- Editor’s introduction: Ellington and Aesthetic Realism
- Part I Ellington in context
- 1 Artful entertainment: Ellington’s formative years in context
- 2 The process of becoming: composition and recomposition
- 3 Conductor of music and men: Duke Ellington through the eyes of his nephew
- 4 Ellington abroad
- 5 Edward Kennedy Ellington as a cultural icon
- Part II Duke through the decades: the music and its reception
- Part III Ellington and the jazz tradition
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington , pp. 42 - 54Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015