Profiles Ellington, the man and musician, and presents a representative selection of his compositions

Great Music of Duke Ellington

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Ellington, Duke

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Dover Pubns

(Instrumental Play-Along). Features 11 classics from jazz great Duke Ellington: Caravan * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good * I'm Beginning to See the Light * In a Sentimental Mood * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Mood Indigo * Satin Doll * Solitude * Sophisticated Lady * Take the "A" Train.

Play the Duke: 11 Ellington Jazz Classics

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Hal Leonard

(Instrumental Play-Along). Features 11 classics from Duke Ellington's stellar career: Caravan * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good * I'm Beginning to See the Light * In a Sentimental Mood * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Mood Indigo * Satin Doll * Solitude * Sophisticated Lady * Take the "A" Train.

Play the Duke: 11 Ellington Jazz Classics for Clarinet

Features 11 classics from Duke Ellington's stellar career: Caravan * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good * I'm Beginning to See the Light * In a Sentimental Mood * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Mood Indigo * Satin Doll * Solitude * Sophisticated Lady * Take the "A" Train.

Play the Duke: 11 Ellington Jazz Classics for Alto Sax

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Play the Duke: 11 Ellington Jazz Classics for Tenor Sax

(Instrumental Folio). Features 11 classics from Duke Ellington's stellar career: Caravan * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good * I'm Beginning to See the Light * In a Sentimental Mood * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Mood Indigo * Satin Doll * Solitude * Sophisticated Lady * Take the "A" Train.

Play the Duke: 11 Ellington Jazz Classics for Trumpet

Play the Duke: 11 Ellington Jazz Classics for Horn

Features 11 classics from Duke Ellington's stellar career: Caravan * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good * I'm Beginning to See the Light * In a Sentimental Mood * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Mood Indigo * Satin Doll * Solitude * Sophisticated Lady * Take the "A" Train.

Play the Duke: 11 Ellington Jazz Classics for Violin

Features Lee Evans' distinctive piano solo arrangements of 17 swingin' Ellington classics: Azure * Come Sunday * Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me * Don't Get Around Much Anymore * I'm Beginning to See the Light * I'm Just a Lucky So and So * In a Sentimental Mood * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Mood Indigo * Satin Doll * Sophisticated Lady * and more.

Lee Evans Arranges Duke Ellington

EVANS, LEE

”Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.” This is the story of Duke Ellington—the story of Jazz itself. Told in his own way, in his own words, a symphony written by the King of Jazz. His story spans and defines a half-century of modern music.This man who created over 1500 compositions was as much at home in Harlem’s Cotton Club in the ‘20s as he was at a White House birthday celebration in his honor in the ‘60s. For Duke knew everyone and savored them all. Passionate about his music and the people who made music, he counted as his friends hundreds of the musicians who changed the face of music throughout the Bechet, Basie, Armstrong, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra, to name a few of them. Here are 100 photographs to give us an intimate view of Duke’s world—his family, his friends, his associates.What emerges most strongly in his commitment to music, the mistress for whom he saves the fullest intensity of his passion. ”Lovers have come and gone, but only my mistress stays,” he says. He composed not only songs that all the world has sung, but also suites, sacred works, music for stage and screen and symphonies. This rich book, the embodiment of the life and works of the Duke, is replete with appendices listing singers, arrangers, lyricists and the symphony orchestras with whom the Duke played. There is a book to own and cherish by all who love Jazz and the contributions made to it by the Duke

Music Is My Mistress

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