"Ellington uptown" : Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, & the birth of concert jazz / by Howland, John Louis

The Cotton Club / by Haskins, James, 1941-2005

Table of Contents: “…Harlem comes of age -- The Cotton Club -- Duke Ellington comes to the Cotton Club -- The Depression begins -- Prohibition is repealed and the Depression deepens -- End of an era -- The Cotton Club comes to Broadway -- Hit on Broadway -- The last years -- The memory lingers on.…”

Black music in the Harlem Renaissance : a collection of essays /

Table of Contents: “…Ryder -- William Grant Still, Florence Price, and William Dawson : echoes of the Harlem Renaissance / Rae Linda Brown -- Black musical theater and the Harlem Renaissance movement / John Graziano -- The renaissance education of Duke Ellington / Mark Tucker -- Interactions between writers and music during the Harlem Renaissance / Richard A. …”

Jazz shots from the East Coast.

Table of Contents: “…Strayhorn (2:01) (Duke Ellington) -- Tagore (7:35) ; Passin' thru (12:42) / C. …”
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Jazz.

Terrible honesty : mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s / by Douglas, Ann, 1942-

Jazz.

Jazz shots from the East Coast.

Table of Contents: “…Jamal (4:25) (Miles Davis & Gil Evans Orchestra) -- Bonus tracks: Newport stomp / D. Ellington (Duke Ellington) (ca. 2:34) -- Another get together / P. …”
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The Harlem Renaissance revisited : politics, arts, and letters /

Table of Contents: “…Harrison and the role of the new Negro literary critic / Ousmane Kirumu Power-Greene -- It's all sacred music : Duke Ellington, from the Cotton Club to the cathedral / Frank A. …”

Harlem Renaissance / by Howes, Kelly King

Table of Contents: “…Du Bois -- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Langston Hughes: Negro speaks of rivers -- Mother to son -- Dream variation -- Zora Neale Hurston: from Sweat -- Nella Larsen -- Alain Locke -- Claude McKay: Harlem shadows -- from Home to Harlem -- Bessie Smith -- Wallace Thurman -- Jean Toomer: from "Carma" in Cane -- Carl Van Vechten -- Ethel Waters.…”
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