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Black and Tan Fantasy (1927)

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Rank 837
Words and Music Duke Ellington
Bubber Miley

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Year Rank Title
1930 1 Body and Soul
1939 2 All the Things You Are
1935 3 Summertime
1944 4 'Round Midnight
1935 5 I Can't Get Started (with You)
1937 6 My Funny Valentine
1942 7 Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be)
1930 8 What Is This Thing Called Love?
1933 9 Yesterdays
1946 10 Stella by Starlight

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Additional information for "Black and Tan Fantasy" may be found in:

James Lincoln Collier
Duke Ellington
Oxford University Press, USA
Hardcover: 352 pages


(3 pages including the following types of information: history and music analysis.)

Alyn Shipton
A New History of Jazz
Continuum International Publishing Group
Paperback: 956 pages


(1 paragraph including the following types of information: style discussion. (Page 273).)

Gary Giddins
Visions of Jazz: The First Century
Oxford University Press; New Ed edition
Paperback: 704 pages


(1 paragraph including the following types of information: history.)
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Duke Ellington and Bubber Miley

Year Rank Title
1927 837 Black and Tan Fantasy

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