Description |
xii, 688 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [579]-663) and indexes. |
Contents |
Washington/New York -- The marketing plan -- Serious listening -- Credits/exit mills -- Swingin' -- Black, brown and beige -- Postwar struggles -- Reinvention and nadir -- Reborn -- Money -- My people -- 1963 State Department tour -- Sacred concerts -- Fighting nostalgia -- 1970s state tours -- Final days. |
Subject |
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
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African American jazz musicians -- Biography.
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ISBN |
9780226112633 cloth alkaline paper |
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0226112632 cloth alkaline paper |
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