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Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington

Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington

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Availability:In StockContributor:John Edward HassePublish date:1995-03-22Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Da Capo PressISBN-13:9780306806148ISBN-10:306806142UPC:9780306806148Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, MusicBook Subcategory:Music, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Genres & StylesBook Topic:African American & Black, JazzSize:8.70 x 6.00 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCXH21CK2E
"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
Language:EnglishPublisher:Da Capo PressISBN-13:9780306806148ISBN-10:306806142UPC:9780306806148Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, MusicBook Subcategory:Music, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Genres & StylesBook Topic:African American & Black, JazzSize:8.70 x 6.00 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCXH21CK2E
Music historian, musician, award-winning author and record producer, John Edward Hasse has served as curator of American music at the Smithsonian Institution. He is the editor of Ragtime: Its History, Composers and Music, and coeditor of Discourse in Ethnomusicology.
Publisher: Da Capo Press

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