Duke Ellington: Music is my Mistress
Duke Ellington: Music is my Mistress (written work, Memoir/autobiography)
| Listening experiences | 1429000607332: He [Percy Johnson] had a player-piano and he put o... 1429001100474: Sidney Bechet was one of the truly great originals... 1429001727358: Otto Hardwick was known as the little brother of J... 1429002037429: Every young drummer who ever saw Sonny Greer in hi... 1429002319779: When Elmer Snowden came to Washington in Joe Roche... 1429002498935: As a trumpet player [Arthur Whetsol] had a tonal p... 1429104941355: [In 1951] Johnny Hodges, Lawrence Brown, and Sonny... 1429105282168: The Washingtonians were different in several ways.... 1429105731883: Willie "The Lion" Smith--would that I were suffici... 1429300994495: George James was known in Harlem as "Mexico." He w... 1429301384763: Later, when I showed up in New York, I found him [... 1429301625362: Other times [in New York], Lippy and the bunch wou... 1429301993260: As a drummer, Chick [Webb] had his own ideas about... 1429302198583: When I first came to New York, Count Basie was pla... 1429302768113: Paul Whiteman was known as the King of Jazz, and n... 1429302987245: When I was a kid, I used to go to the Howard Theat... 1429303469197: Bubber Miley was from the body and soul of Soulsvi... 1429343026969: [Everything 'Tricky Sam' Joe Nanton did] was up th... 1429343236838: Charlie Irvis, who was known as Charlie Plug, was ... 1429343388770: Freddy Guy was born in Georgia, but he had been in... 1429375594378: [Band members] Barney Bigard and Wellman Braud… [w... 1429611254732: [Drummer Sam Woodyard] was one of three heroes wh... 1429611467086: Jimmy Grissom sang with the band in the early '50s... 1429611857713: We were playing a joint in Seattle in 1962, and ev... 1429612391131: When we were playing the Booker T. Washington thea... 1429613602014: When we returned from the Orient in 1972, we had t... 1429613965083: Alan Douglas of United Artists arranged a record d... 1429615075955: In 1965, I was invited by Dean C. J. Bartlett and ... 1429708775185: [The Cathedral of St John’s the Divine, NY] is rep... 1429709336436: [We performed, in the 1960’s] the ‘Sacred Concert’... 1429709783547: In 1963, I found myself in Paris with an unusual c... 1429710320963: When I heard Tony [Watkins] sing his version of "T... 1429890359260: The 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar, Se... 1429890778016: After this second concert [in Sao Paolo, 1968] we ... 1429891101925: There is a lot of musical life in the city… Opera ... 1429892862028: After the concert [in Prague] and the autograph ro... 1429893110015: The anticipation of our tour of Russia in 1971 is ... 1430048896632: One hour after our arrival in Moscow we are guests... 1430049428255: We are invited to attend a performance in the lov... 1430049814279: At one of Ambassador Beam's receptions, I am delig... 1430077455751: [W]e are to play two concerts with the National Sy... 1430077690992: Everything goes off well, the President comes to t... 1430077919133: Our next stop is Kuala Lumpur, and a map is really... 1430078255468: Today, we often go to Jean Houel's Rasputin restau... 1430078867313: The first time we heard Rufus "Speedy" Jones was t... 1430079717628: Harold Ashby brought his tenor saxophone and sat i... 1430079948137: The story of jazz is a long list of great names, r... 1430226417956: As a young man in Washington, D.C., I was impresse... 1430226710867: The blues were worldly songs, but the gospel songs... 1430227068809: When the folky character of the blues, the fervor ... 1430227524622: [Louis] Armstrong had been to New York to play wit... 1430227764402: [Fletcher]Henderson's, more than any other, was th... 1430228209792: By this time, jazz had become very much identified... 1430228463714: Bop was regarded by many people as a revolution ag... 1430230823406: [Duke Ellington’s 40th birthday celebration hosted... 1430231044062: Q: You are said to have been influenced by the Eng... |
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| published in | 1973 |
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