Jazz composition
Music sociology
Duke Ellington
Book release on Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Scandinavian Wood
The career of Niels-Henning
Ørsted Pedersen in the light of his discography
"...gives us interesting insights into the social, cultural and political climate in Denmark since the Second World War, the role of the publish Danish radio in the national jazz development, and the history of Jazzhus Montmartre..."
Bert Vuijsje, in
Names & Number, 59, October 2011
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More than you know
On the track of Dexter Gordon’s 1976 comeback and
Palle Mikkelborg as a composer
The recordings in February and March 1975 was the
beginning of the end of the European Diaspora for Dexter
Gordon. The article is adjusting the previous
discographical account for these sessions, account which
have had some inconsistencies.
The sessions were at the same time a harbinger for Palle Mikkelborg's composition Aura, which he recorded with Miles Davis in 1985, and the article traces the relation between the two recordings.
Jazz as autonomous music
That jazz acquired status as autonomous music with
bebop is the understanding of many jazz historians today.
Does it mean that all of jazz must be understood as
autonomous music as it has been suggested? Or is it
rather a part of the effort known as jazz: America's
classical music?
Well, it is perhaps not sure if we have a common
understanding of what autonomous music is. And what about
musicians in early jazz like for instance Duke Ellington,
who frequently took a position in direct opposition to
the idea of autonomous music?
On the basis of a short bibliography and a selection of
citations from the jazz literature and the general music
literature the paper is discussing these questions.
Jazz is only a word and has no meaning...
The Duke
Ellington pages of the site
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- Index to Music is My Mistress with more
than 4600 references. Republished January 2005
- Key to Ellington's production as a composer. Updated
June 2006
- Discussion of the work of Duke Ellington. Published
January 2005
- www portal to Duke Ellington