Article: ELLINGTON: THE DUKE OF JAZZ HIS MUSIC LEFT US SWINGIN' THROUGH THE YEARS.(Entertainment)

Article: With Duke Ellington's music, even late is great.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  April 23, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... has always denigrated Duke Ellington's music from the 1950s until his ... conventional wisdom is wrong. Ellington's later music, including ``Anatomy of ... emotional range of so much of Ellington's later music transcends the issue of extended ...

Article: Dance: the unsung element of Ellingtonia.(Special Jazz ...
The Antioch Review;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... involvement with Terpsichore. Ellington conceptualized music in colors in a very personal ... advises: "Dance Compelling Music by DUKE ELLINGTON and his RECORDING ARTISTS ... Anderson, not only inspired Ellington to compose special music for their Cotton Club ...

Article: DUKE ELLINGTON'S MUSIC COMES ALIVE ON THE `A TRAIN'
Evansville Courier & Press;  February 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... task of making Ellington's music transcend the years ... his career, Duke Ellington wrote more than ... Carnegie Hall to music halls in Russia ... versatility. Duke Ellington a classical composer ... bet. He composed music that gave so many ...

Article: `Hours,' `Wit' authors win Pulitzer Prizes Ellington given ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 13, 1999 ;     616 words ... ... Melinda Wagner won the music prize for her composition ... Percussion." A special music citation was given posthumously to Duke Ellington on the centennial of ... three-member Pulitzer music jury in 1965 recommended that Ellington be given a special ...

Article: Nothin' without God: Duke Ellington's prayerful ...
The Christian Century;  October 12, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... published in 1993). The more Ellington's music and his influential role ... and borrowed material. ELLINGTON'S MUSIC taps a vein of universal ... jazz. I write Negro folk music." In his 1973 autobiography Ellington credited his mother ...

Article: Ellington's sacred music lifts spirits
The Boston Globe;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... BOSTON GLOBE JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL The Sacred Music of Duke Ellington With Soloists Paul Broadnax, Monica Hatch ... Emmanuel Church, Sunday night Most of the music here came from the second of Ellington's three Sacred Concerts, the very one ...

Article: ELLINGTON'S SACRED MUSIC LIFTS SPIRITS
The Boston Globe;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Most of the music here came from the second of Ellington's three Sacred Concerts ... was performed by the Ellington band in this very ... everywhere in late Ellington works -- not a tune ... moments came when the music let them loose. The ...