Duke Ellington’s America

Book Excerpts

You can read previously published extracts at the following links:

• “Dawn of the Jazz Age: Sir Duke Ellington's Adventures in Britain”

  The Independent (13 November 2008)

• “In His Own Words: Ellington's Ode to Black History”

  Washington Post (20 February 2005)

• “Duke Ellington and Black, Brown and Beige: The Composer As Historian At Carnegie Hall”

  American Quaterly (December 2004)