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Summer Reading

June 19, 2009 · No Comments

…any time spent reading about or thinking about Duke Ellington is time well spent, and there is a fine new biography of Ellington titled Backstory in Blue by John Fass Morton. Very positive review of this book in a recent Harpers, which not only praised it as a study of Duke’s life and work but as a study of the power of recorded music and what recorded music means…

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