Evaluation of the jazz albums Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook, vols. 1 and 2
The four-page entry on jazz in the 1938 Oxford Companion to Music is discussed.
His early career as record-company employee
Poem "The Day Lady Died" by Frank O'Hara is analysed
Part of a series recommending jazz albums
Survey of the two Django and His American Friends albums
Strayhorn's "Take the A Train," which became a huge hit, was nearly lost before it was ever recorded. Ellington's recording is analysed.
An account of the fours years Miles Davis took to recruit for his sixties quintet
Description and evaluation of Johnny Hodges' "Duke's in Bed" album
Description and evaluation of Afro/American Sketches