Beyond Category
The Life And Genius Of Duke Ellington
by John Edward Hasse, Wynton Marsalis

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• Genres: music, biography, jazz, history
• Language: english
• Release date: March 22, 1995
• Author: John Edward Hasse, Wynton Marsalis
• Format: paperback, 480 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• ISBN: 9780306806148 (0306806142)

About The Book

One of the twentieth century’s greatest composers, Duke Ellington (1899 — 1974) led a fascinating life. Beyond Category, the first biography to draw on the vast Duke Ellington archives at the Smithsonian Institution, recounts his remarkable career: his childhood in Washington, D.C., and his musical apprenticeship in Harlem; his long engagement at the Cotton Club; the challenging years of the depression; his tours to Europe and into America’s deep South, where he helped lower racial barriers; the postwar years when television and bebop threatened to eclipse the big bands; Ellington’s own triumphant comeback at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival; his collaborations with Billy Strayhorn, Johnny Hodges, and Ella Fitzgerald; as well as five decades of hits and masterpieces that constantly broke new ground.The art of Duke Ellington was a musical expression of the African-American experience, in all its pain, pride, and glory. He composed his music as he composed his life — with flair, passion, and individuality — and no book reveals the man and his artistic evolution more brilliantly than Beyond Category.

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