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Discover Jazz

Arts & Photography

Hasse, John Edward

Lathrop, Tad

Music

Pearson College Div

The Classic Hoagy Carmichael: The Indiana Historical Society and the Smithsonian Collection of Readings/Book and 4 Lp Records

Indiana Univ. Pr

The Classic Hoagy Carmichael: The Indiana Historical Society and the Smithsonian Collection of Recordings

"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

Beyond Category: The Life And Genius Of Duke Ellington

Humor & Entertainment

Da Capo Press

Ragtime was America's first truly national music, and in recent years it has undergone several revivals. Until now, however, there was no book that covered ragtime in its many manifestations - ragtime piano, songs, banjo, orchestra, piano rolls, and the social and cultural history of the music. With chapters by America's leading ragtime scholars - including Gunther Schuller, Max Morath, Edward Berlin, Trebor Jay Tichenor - Ragtime authoritatively explains ragtime music, examines the lives of its leading practitioners, looks at the vigorous debate that the music engendered, and probes the history of the genre. The book includes articles on the history of ragtime; analyses and biographies on leading composers; interviews with luminaries such as James P.Johnson and Rudi Blesh; an authoritative discography that lists and describes over 300 LPs; the most extensive listing ever published of ragtime folios for piano, organ, and other instruments; a thorough bibliography that includes more than 500 books and articles; and more than 30 photographs, some never before published.

Ragtime: Its History, Composers and Music (Macmillan Popular Music Series)

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

I love you when you're sick and when you're feeling better. And when I'm far away, I say "I love you" in a letter! I Love You When . . . is a poignant, but fun, rhyming text expressing a parent's unconditional love for a child.

I Love You When... (Pictureback Shape)

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Random House Childrens Books

This biography draws on the thousands of pages of scrapbooks, letters, business records, musical manuscripts, and photographs in the Duke Ellington archives at the Smithsonian Institute. Both the novice and the fan is guided through the array of Ellington recordings by Hasse, who selects and comments on the most essential ones from each period of Ellington's career. This book contains over 100 photographs of Ellington and his musicians.

Beyond Category: The Life & Genius of Duke Ellington

Omnibus Pr & Schirmer Trade Books

The talented Hoagy Carmichael gained fame in his lifetime for his singing, acting and to a lesser extent his skills at the piano, but his most important contributions to music were made as a composer. This handsome three-CD box set

The Classic Hoagy Carmichael

The Turkish Ambassador's Residence and The Cultural History of Washington, D.C.

Hickman, Caroline Mesrobian

Moskey, Skip

Istanbul Kültür University

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