King of All, Sir Duke by Peter Lavezzoli (9780826413284)
King of All, Sir Duke by Peter Lavezzoli (9780826413284)
King of All, Sir Duke (Book)
Peter Lavezzoli Release Date: 01 Oct 2001 Format: Hardcover Pages: 208 ISBN: 9780826413284 ISBN-10: 0826413285
Twenty-five years ago in his hit song, "Sir Duke," Stevie Wonder sings: "Music knows it is and always will be one of the things that life just won't quit./ Here are some of music's basic pioneers that time will not allow us to forget:/ There's Basie, Miller, Satchemo, and the King of All, Sir Duke!/ You can fell it all over!"
To say that Ellington was a prominent jazz-band leader of the twentieth century would be like saying William Shakespeare was simply a prominent English playwright of the time. This book begins with personal reflections as well as the life before going on to consider - through anecdote, musical scholarship, and personal interviews - Ellington's profound and direct influence on an amazing range of pop artists: Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Miles Davis (who, in the ultimate tribute, had himself interred next to the Duke in New York's Woodlawn Cemetery), Sun Ra, James Brown, Sly Stone, George Clinton, Prince, Frank Zappa, Charles Mingus, Ravi Shankar, and others.
