Duke Ellington - music books



Balliett, Whitney. Ecstasy at the Onion. Indianapolis: Bmbbs-Merrill, 1971.



Blesh, Rudi, and Harriet Janis. They All Played Ragtime. London: Jazz Book

Club, 1960.



The Classic Interviews. 60th Anniversary Kickoff. Elmhurst, IL: Down Beat, 1994.



Composer Handbook: A Brief Introduction to Composers. New York: G. Schirmer, 1994.



Crawford, Richard. The American Musical Landscape. Berkeley: University of

California Press, 1993.



Crouch, S. Premature Autopsies, Notes for Wynton Marsalis' The Majesty of

the Blues, Columbia CK45091, 1989.



Dietrich, Kurt. Duke's 'Bones: Ellington's Great Trombonists. Rottenburg,

Germany: Advance Music, 1995.



Forte, Allen. The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.



Gridley, M. Jazz Styles: History and Analysis (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice

Hall, 1991)



Hodeir and Schuller, "Duke Ellington", In The New Grove Dictionary of

American Music, edited by W.H. Hitchcock and S. Sadie, 2: 37-41, 4 vols.

(New York, Macmillan, 1986)



Jazz Stars. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1994.



Jazz Stars. Profiles of Great Black Americans Series. New York:

Barnes & Noble, 1993.



Monceaux, Morgan. Jazz: My Music, My People. New York: Knopf, 1994.



Preston, D. Mood Indigo (Egham, England, 1946)



Reed, Thomas T. Jimmy Hamilton, and Russell Procope: The Clarinet Soloists of the

Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1943-1974. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University, 1995.



Sacred Music of the Secular City: From Blues to Rap. Durham, NC: Duke University

Press, 1992.



Schuller, Gunther. Early Jazz: Its Roots and Early Development (New York: Oxford

University Press, 1986)



Schuller, Gunther. The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz 1930-1945

(New York: Oxford University Press, 1989)



Shapiro and Hentoff. Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (London: Peter Davies, 1955)





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