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Ellington tells his story through family, friends, musicians, and travels, and his tale is accompanied by over 100 photographs. It is an intimate look at his commitment to his art form. The appendices list musicians, arrangers, lyricists, and even symphony orchestras with whom Ellington played. His compositions are listed chronologically, and the book includes a discography.
For jazz fans and researchers interested in Ellington (and who wouldn’t be, because over 40 of the top 1000 jazz standards are Ellington tunes), this indispensable book is from the horse’s mouth. For song research, though, plan to look page by page as there is no index.
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The JazzStandards.com bookstore provides you with
a catalog of 200 books associated with the jazz standards.
Organized by category, each entry has an editorial comment to aid
you in your research and guide you in your recreational reading.
The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com are
listed at the right and the listing may be considered the site bibliography.
The primary focus of these books is not always the jazz standards
per se, so each entry is annotated indicating the book's relevance
to the subject. If there is a book you feel we have overlooked,
please let us know the title and how it supports the research or
recreational study of the jazz standards.
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