Dance: the unsung element of Ellingtonia.(Special Jazz Issue)(Duke Ellington's music)

The Antioch Review | June 22, 1999| | Copyright

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington is a twentieth-century figure of heroic proportions whose name instantly evokes the rich, textured harmonies of a unique big band. His image is elegant. His lyrics and his speech could be dazzlingly witty, profound, or a put-on. His popular songs earned almost instant immortality, and the virtuoso ensemble he called his "World Famous Orchestra" explored new musical territories for fifty years, swinging all the way. He had a love/hate relationship with the word jazz, alternately embracing and shunning it as too strictured.

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