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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 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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