Duke Ellington und die Folgen

For the first time, the 6th Darmstadt Jazz Forum was dedicated to a single musician. On the occasion of his 100th birthday, the lectures and concerts in September/October 1999 dealt with the music of the pianist, composer and bandleader Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington. Ellington is one of the few cross-style personalities in jazz history and was just as influential on musicians of the 20s and 30s as he was on those of the 60s to 90s. The presentations at the Darmstadt Jazz Forum will examine very different aspects of Ellington's work. They deal with his role as a composer, arranger and pianist, his influence on the band's own musicians as well as many subsequent musicians, his aesthetics and the reception of his concerts in Germany. The variety of approaches between musical analysis and musical aesthetics 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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