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Mercer Ellington was not only Duke’s son but the manager of Duke’s band for over a decade. Their complex relationship is detailed here, and the portrait of the great composer/musician that emerges is necessarily complex but very insightful and real. Duke Ellington wrote more compositions that would become jazz standards than any other composer. Written with Stanley Dance, Mercer Ellington’s fascinating memoir is a balanced and personal assessment his father’s life and is intended to complement Duke Ellington’s autobiography, Music Is My Mistress, and Stanley Dance’s The World of Duke Ellington. The general index includes song titles.
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The JazzStandards.com bookstore
provides you with a catalog of over 120 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.
suggestions@jazzStandards.com
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