Ellington at Newport '56
Ellington at Newport '56
Draws on interviews with both fans and music professionals to reveal who and what made Duke Ellington's "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue" so compelling, and how one piece of music reflected the feelings and shaped the sensibilities of postwar America.
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Tells the story of who and what made Ellington's composition of a fourteen-bar choruses of rhythm and dissonance, played on the night of July 7, 1956, so compelling and how one piece of music reflected the feelings and shaped the sensibilities of the postwar generation.