紹介
Celebrating the Duke offers readers a perceptive, panoramic survey of jazz as revealed, in illuminating detail, through the lives and music of its heroes and heroines, including Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Lunceford, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Albert Ayler, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and a rich cache of writings on "America's greatest composer," the Duke himself.
目次
* Introduction by Ira Gitler Jazz: Black Art/American Art Heroes * Bessie Smith * Louis Armstrong * Jimmie Lunceford * Billie HollidayLady Day * Pres: Lester Young * Charlie Bird Parker * John Birks Dizzy Gillespie * John Lewis and the Modern Jazz Quartet * Carmen McRae * John Coltrane * Miles Davis * The Death of Albert Ayler The Duke * Farewell to the Duke * A Ducal Calendar 1952-1974 * Coda: The Piano Player
