Duke Ellington und die Folgen

The 6th Darmstadt Jazz Forum was dedicated to a single musician for the first time. To mark the 100th anniversary of his birth, the lectures and concerts held in September and October 1999 focused on the music of pianist, composer, and bandleader Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington. Ellington is one of the few cross-genre figures in jazz history, having been just as influential on musicians of the 1920s and 1930s as he was on those of the 1960s through the 1990s. The presentations at the Darmstadt Jazz Forum explore very different aspects of Ellington’s work. They address his role as a composer, arranger, and pianist; his influence on both his own band members and many subsequent musicians; his aesthetic; and the reception of his concerts in Germany. The diversity of approaches—ranging from musical analysis to aesthetic reflection—sheds new light on both well-known and lesser-known aspects of his work.

The volume contains contributions by...
Wolfram Knauer: "Every Man Prays in His Own Language..." Duke Ellington and his world
Wolfram Knauer: "Reminiscing in Tempo" Tradition and musical aesthetic ideals in Ellington's compositional oeuvre
Bernd Hoffmann: "For the benefit of German youth" On the reception of Afro-American music in the post-war period
Peter Niklas Wilson: "Money Jungle" Threads of a network of relationships
Ekkehard Jost: "Open Letter to Duke" What Charles Mingus wrote to Duke Ellington
Franz Krieger: "Piano in the Foreground?" On Duke Ellington's piano style
Günter H. Lenz: "The cultural dynamics of Afro-American music" Duke Ellington's concept of culture and its significance in
African-American literature and criticism
Bill Dobbins: "Mood Indigo" The harmonic language of Duke Ellington
Walter van de Leur: "Scores of Scores" Some notes on manuscripts of the Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington collections in the USA
Martin Pfleiderer: "Far East of the Blues" Ellington and World Music

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