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Article: Nothin' without God: Duke Ellington's prayerful music. (Cover Story)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- October 12, 1994
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IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE another jazz musician or contemporary composer receiving the adulation that Duke Ellington has inspired. The release of "Mood Indigo" in 1930 established his fame, while the praise of Stravinsky, Milhaud and others won him early recognition as a serious composer. By the time of his death in 1974 the man and his music had become legendary, and the legend has only grown since then. A Smithsonian Institution exhibit, now touring the country, presents a broad-stroke portrait of the man and his music. (Until mid-December the exhibit is at the museum of African American History in Detroit.) Greater depth and detail are found in Mark Tucker's The Duke ...