Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
- Series page
- Frontispiece
- The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Duke Ellington chronology
- Editor’s introduction: Ellington and Aesthetic Realism
- Part I Ellington in context
- Part II Duke through the decades: the music and its reception
- 6 Ellington’s Afro-Modernist vision in the 1920s
- 7 Survival, adaptation, and experimentation: Duke Ellington and his orchestra in the 1930s
- 8 The 1940s: the Blanton-Webster band, Carnegie Hall, and the challenge of the postwar era
- 9 Duke in the 1950s: renaissance man
- 10 Ellington in the 1960s and 1970s: triumph and tragedy
- Part III Ellington and the jazz tradition
- Select bibliography
- Index
8 - The 1940s: the Blanton-Webster band, Carnegie Hall, and the challenge of the postwar era
from Part II - Duke through the decades: the music and its reception
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
- Series page
- Frontispiece
- The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Duke Ellington chronology
- Editor’s introduction: Ellington and Aesthetic Realism
- Part I Ellington in context
- Part II Duke through the decades: the music and its reception
- 6 Ellington’s Afro-Modernist vision in the 1920s
- 7 Survival, adaptation, and experimentation: Duke Ellington and his orchestra in the 1930s
- 8 The 1940s: the Blanton-Webster band, Carnegie Hall, and the challenge of the postwar era
- 9 Duke in the 1950s: renaissance man
- 10 Ellington in the 1960s and 1970s: triumph and tragedy
- Part III Ellington and the jazz tradition
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington , pp. 121 - 133Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015