Duke Ellington, songwriter: reference sources (web and print); selected songs; recordings, videos; miscellany

Cafe Songbook Music-Video Cabinet: Duke Ellington

• All Too Soon
• Azure
• Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me
• Don't Get Around Much Anymore
• I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues
• I Didn't Know About You
• I Got It Bad (and that ain't good)
• I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
• I Like the Sunrise
• I'm Beginning to See the Light
• I'm Just a Lucky So and So
• In a Sentimental Mood It
• Don't Mean A Thing (If it ain't got that swing)
• Just Squeeze Me (but please don't tease me)
• Mood Indigo
• Prelude to a Kiss
• Satin Doll
• Solitude
• Something To Live For
• Sophisticated Lady
• Tulip or Turnip

Research Resources: Duke Ellington

• Amazon (books by and about, recordings, videos, sheet music, etc.)
• DBOPM (Database Of Popular Music: song list; awards; hit songs; co-writers)
• Discogs.com (songwriting and arranging credits)
• Indiana University Sheet Music Collection (In Harmony): Duke Ellington
• Internet Broadway Database (Broadway productions and song credits)
• Internet Movie Database (brief biography, filmography, movie song credits)
• New York Public Library (catalog entries for books, personal papers, recordings, scores, etc.)
• The New York Times (articles about the songwriter)
• NPR Music (archive of relevant programs often including audio segments)
• Smithsonian Institution (The Duke Ellington Collection)
• Songwriters Hall of Fame (biography and song list)
• Wikipedia (Duke Ellington article)
• ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers, New York: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (dates, career, shows/movies, songs; 3rd edition, 1966, entry p. 202-203)
• Alec Wilder, American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950, New York: Oxford University Press, 1972 (pp. 412-416 plus many other references).
• Don George, Sweet Man, the Real Duke Ellington , New York: Putnam, 1983.
• James Lincoln Collier. Duke Ellington. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987
• David Ewen. American Songwriters, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co., 1987 (includes 146 bios of composers and lyricists). -- a wide selection of used copies is available at abebooks.com (entry, pp. 147-152).
• John Edward Hasse. Beyond Category: The Life And Genius Of Duke Ellington. Forward by Wynton Marsalis. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993 (includes appendices on "Ellington's Key Musicians," "Most Essential Ellington Recordings," "Selected Films and Videos," "Selected Reading," "Ellington Songbooks and Folios");
• Stuart Nicholson. Reminiscing In Tempo: A Portrait of Duke Ellington. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999 (includes a discography).
• Ken Bloom. The American Songbook, The Singers, The Songwriters and the Songs. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2005 (entries--pp. 142-144. 216-218, and more).
• Thomas S. Hischak. The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008 (entry--p. 223).
• Ellington Sweedish interviews part 1-2: utilist1;
• Comments on Ellington by Irving Mills, Ben Webster, et. al.: johnharle;
• Ellington on composition: yogabullfrog;
• C-Jam Blues: RCO64

Notes

• Photo Portrait of Duke Ellington : Wikipedia Commons/Public Domain

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