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Duke Ellington 2 - College Paper

Duke Ellington 2

One of Duke’s earliest compositions was the “Soda Fountain Rag”, which he played so many different ways, it was thought that it was several compositions (Gammond, 69).
In retrospect, Duke Ellington’s formal music career could be split up into three distinct,masterful periods, when the fruition of his work was most evident. The first period occurred in 1923.........
The second phase of Duke’s masterful career came between the late thirties and
mid-forties, when Duke began experimenting and reworking his earlier, successful titles, and began to reconstruct them into longer forms, to accentuate his players strengths. Gone was the “chugging sound of early ...

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to the sax section that already housed Jonny Hodges, Harry Carney, and Barney Bigard
(Holmes).
The trumpet section during this time in Duke’s orchestra comprised such
legends as Rex Stewart and Cootie Williams. Joe Nanton, Juan Tizol, and Lawrence
Brown comprised the monster trombone section, and Sonny Greer rounded out the
orchestra on drums (Holmes). And of course, there the “piano player, as Duke often referred to himself” (Holmes).
During this time, Duke would showcase his individual members in “miniature
masterpieces, three-minute concertos that displayed a single soloist against the backdrop of a tightly-knit ensemble” (Holmes). Then in 1943, Duke began to hold annual concerts in Carnegie Hall, where he would showcase his longer, “concert-length” compositions(Holmes). The most notable of these was Brown, Black and Beige. In 1939, Duke acquired a musician that would be of epochal proportions- Billy Strayhorn. Strayhorn ...

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Added: 5/17/2006 02:01:56 PM
Category: Biographies
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 960
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