Duke Ellington

Calendar for this Unit


Lecture Materials for the Duke Ellington Humanities Unit

 

Duke Ellington Sites

 Downloadable Music

 General Jazz sites

The Blues

Jazz Poetry

 

 

Duke Ellington Sites

 

Duke Ellington Profile form the PBS Jazz site
Includes Audio samples and NPR audio profiles

 

Rude Interlude, a Duke Ellington home page

A Duke Ellington Panorama

Duke Ellington

The Ellington Pages Biographical Material

Essence The Immortal Duke Ellington.(Brief Article)

Official Site of Duke Ellington

BBC Duke Ellington Profile
Bio, Links, Music clip

 

Shirmer List of Works
Comprehensive list of works of Ellington and Strayhorn


Downloadable Music Sites

 

Ellington Selections from the PBS Jazz site

 

The Red Hot Jazz Archive

 

Duke Ellington Music Archive

 

Essential Duke Ellington Collection (short samples)

Three Duke Ellington Selections

Vitaminic.com


General Jazz Sites

 

Ken Burns Jazz

Jazz in Time: Jazz and American History

From Site of the PBS Documentary

 

One-page History of Jazz w-RealAudio

 

What is Jazz

Lecture with samples

 

JAZZ CORNER ®

 

Jazz Magazine and Resource ALL ABOUT JAZZ The Web's Ultimate Guide to Jazz
History Of Jazz Timeline

 

JAZZ CORNER ®

 

Elements of Jazz

Fundamentals of Rhythm with samples

A detailed guide to jazz from Outsideshore.com

 

BBC Radio Jazz Corner
Music Clips, interviews, profiles of major jazz figures

 

Jazz styles

MIDI audio samples of different styles


The Blues

 

Explaining the 12 Bar Blues

Blues Glossary

PBS The Blues Classroom site

 

All Music Guide to the Blues

 

12 Bar Blues with audio samples

PDF file (Hal Leonard)

 

Guitar lesson on 12 bar blues with adjustable audio samples

 


Jazz Poetry

 

Langston Hughes, Poems
including “The Weary Blues” recording

 

Langston Hughes Recordings

“Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “Trumpet Player” from Salon.com

 

Modern American Poetry site on Amiri Baraka

 

“In Walked Bud” Amiri Baraka

Recording from Salon.com

 

Poetry Recordings

Includes Kesey, Bukowski, Baraka selections and more from “Giorno Poetry Systems” from U. Buffalo

 

Blue Neon Alley Directory of the Beat Generation

 Jack Kerouac page and more.

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