Duke Ellington, Jazz Composer

by Ken Rattenbury

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American composer, pianist, and orchestra leader Duke Ellington was the first genuine jazz composer of truly international status. In this book Ken Rattenbury offers the most thorough musical analysis ever written of Ellington's works, assessing the extent to which Ellington drew on the black music traditions of blues and ragtime and the music of Tin Pan Alley, and examining how he integrated black folk music practices with elements of European...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0300055072

ISBN13:9780300055078

Release Date:January 1993

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:348 Pages

Weight:0.78 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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