The Duke Ellington Reader
- ISBN-10
- 0195093917
- ISBN-13
- 9780195093919
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 536
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Mark Tucker
Description
Includes over one hundred essays focusing on Ellington as a person, musician, bandleader, and musical philosopher, and offering insight into Ellington's position in American musical culture
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