Celebrating The Duke

And Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy And Other Heroes

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By Ralph J. Gleason

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“If you want to know what real jazz criticism is, read Celebrating the Duke. It is a fitting memorial to an outstanding critic and writer.”–Jazz Journal

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.

Foreword by Studs Terkel
New introduction by Ira Gitler

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On Sale
Aug 22, 1995
Page Count
304 pages
Publisher
Da Capo Press
ISBN-13
9780306806452

Ralph J. Gleason

About the Author

Jazz and rock critic, founding editor of Rolling Stone, producer, disc jockey, teacher, and vice-president of Fantasy Records, Ralph J. Gleason (1917-1975) was the author of JamSessions and The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound.

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