A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington (eBook)

The Man in the Music

Jack Chambers (Autor)

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2025 | EPUB Single
321 Seiten
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
978-1-4968-5575-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Ellington’s music with fresh thematic explorations to delight music lovers

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In this insightful new volume, Jack Chambers explores Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington’s music thematically, collating motifs, memes, and predilections that caught Ellington's attention and inspired his restless muse. In presenting Ellington’s work in this manner, Chambers situates the music in the context in which it was created—historical, political, musical, biographic, and personal. Chambers offers a novel kind of access to the man and the music.

Ellington’s music presents a daunting task for listeners because of its sheer volume. The numbers defy credulity. Ellington (1899–1974) wrote more than two thousand compositions in numerous genres, including pop songs, big band swing, revues, hymns, tone poems, soundtracks, suites, ballets, concertos, and symphonies. Where to start? The themes in this book offer natural entry points. They provide the context in which the music came into being, with enough biography to satisfy music lovers, even those who come to the book knowing very little about Ellington’s life. Each chapter features its own playlist as a guide to the music discussed, and, in some cases, fuller listings in case readers might want to pursue a topic further. In the early chapters, Chambers covers topics that occupied Ellington through much of his career, and in later chapters he covers more specific themes, some of them from Ellington's last decades, which are less well studied. The music, Ellington said, is his “continuing autobiography,” and it reveals the man behind it.

Autor

Jack Chambers is professor at the University of Toronto and an acclaimed author and teacher of music and language. He is a longtime contributor to the Globe and Mail (Toronto), Coda magazine, and other jazz journals, and a participant in annual conferences. His jazz writings include the prizewinning biography Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis; Bouncin’ with Bartok: The Incomplete Works of Richard Twardzik; and numerous articles and reviews.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.3.2025
• Reihe/Serie: American Made Music Series
• Zusatzinfo: 4 musical examples; 1 table
• Verlagsort: Jackson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: absinthe ballads • Afro-Eurasian music • Alvin Ailey • Billy Strayhorn • Carnegie Hall symphony • Civil Rights • coloratura soprano • composer bandleader • Concerto for Cootie • Cotton Club • Edward Kennedy Ellington • Great American Songbook • Harlem Renaissance • In a Sentimental Mood • It Don’t Mean a Thing • London Paris 1933 • Mooche • piano concerts • plagiarism Night Train • ragtime bebop • stride piano • Take the A Train • U.S. State Department tours
• ISBN-10: 1-4968-5575-2 / 1496855752
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-5575-6 / 9781496855756