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Hugh Lawson
May 12, 2012, 9:39:07 PM5/12/12
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Here's an interesting quotation frm the TLS:
"It wasn't easy being Duke Ellington . . . to put on a mask of urbane
sophistication . . . even when playing to a segregated audience in some
Southern dance hall, to give that audience music that was popular in
part because of the prejudices it reinforced--the 'jungle' style--even
as it glowed with a brilliance only available to latent intelligence and
disciplined study." (p. 9)
"Sentimentals" [ a review of David Schiff _The Ellington Century_,
University of California Press. 2012 ] TLS May 4, 2012.
Hugh Lawson
May 14, 2012, 8:22:17 AM5/14/12
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Brown.
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