Music is my mistress
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Music is my mistress
（A Da Capo paperback）
Da Capo Press, 1976, c1973
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Reprint of the ed. published by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y
Discography: p. 491-522
Includes bibliography
Description and Table of Contents
Description
}Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one. This is the story of Duke Ellingtonthe story of Jazz itself. Told in his own way, in his own words, a symphony written by the King of Jazz. His story spans and defines a half-century of modern music.This man who created over 1500 compositions was as much at home in Harlems Cotton Club in the 20s as he was at a White House birthday celebration in his honor in the 60s. For Duke knew everyone and savored them all. Passionate about his music and the people who made music, he counted as his friends hundreds of the musicians who changed the face of music throughout the world: Bechet, Basie, Armstrong, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra, to name a few of them. Here are 100 photographs to give us an intimate view of Dukes worldhis family, his friends, his associates.What emerges most strongly in his commitment to music, the mistress for whom he saves the fullest intensity of his passion. Lovers have come and gone, but only my mistress stays, he says. He composed not only songs that all the world has sung, but also suites, sacred works, music for stage and screen and symphonies.
This rich book, the embodiment of the life and works of the Duke, is replete with appendices listing singers, arrangers, lyricists and the symphony orchestras with whom the Duke played. There is a book to own and cherish by all who love Jazz and the contributions made to it by the Duke. }
Table of Contents
- The Road
- ACT ONE
- Rollin
- Washington
- Categories
- Music
- Dramatis Felidae:
- Mercer Ellington
- Ruth Dorothea Ellington
- Sidney Bechet
- Fletcher Henderson
- Otto Hardwick
- Sonny Greer
- Elmer Snowden
- Arthur Whetsol
- Juan Tizol
- Jerry Rhea
- ACT TWO
- Night Life
- New York City
- The Big Apple
- Dramatis Felidae:
- Willie The Lion Smith
- Mexico
- James P. Johnson
- Don Redman
- Will Marion Cook
- Will Vodery
- Charles Shribman
- Chick Webb
- Count Basie
- Lonnie Johnson
- Maceo Pinkard
- Paul Whiteman
- Luckeyeth Roberts
- George Gershwin
- Bubber Miley
- Joe Tricky Sam Nanton
- Freddy Guy
- Harry Carney
- Barney Bigard and Wellman Braud
- Johnny Hodges
- Cootie Williams
- Freddy Jenkins
- Lawrence Brown
- Ivie Stewart
- Rex Stewart
- Richard Bowden Jones
- ACT THREE
- The City of Jazz
- Chicago
- Toronto
- London
- Paris
- ACT FOUR
- Formative Years Adjusted
- Dramatis Felidae:
- Billy Strayhorn
- Ray Nance
- Ben Webster
- Jimmy Blanton
- Herb Jeffries
- Lena Horne
- Mary Lou Williams
- Art Tatum
- Charlie Barnet
- Mrs. Fitzpatrick White
- ACT FIVE
- Jump for Joy Extension
- Doctors and Surgeons
- I Miss
- What Is Music?
- I Really Never Miss
- Dramatis Felidae:
- Cat Anderson
- Joya Sherrill
- Kay Davis
- Marie Ellington
- Jimmy Hamilton
- Paul Go.
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