Captain Swing
Eric Hobsbawm, 24 November 1994
The Duke Ellington Reader
edited by Mark Tucker.
Oxford, 536 pp., £19.95, February 1994,0 19 505410 5 Show More
edited by Mark Tucker.
Oxford, 536 pp., £19.95, February 1994,
Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America
by David Stowe.
Harvard, 299 pp., £19.95, October 1994,0 674 85825 5 Show More
by David Stowe.
Harvard, 299 pp., £19.95, October 1994,
“... loyal to jazz since the Thirties, and The Duke Ellington Reader is worth its price simply for Richard Boyer’s magnificent profile of the great man (‘The Hot Bach’), which first appeared there in 1944. It is safe to say that, at that time, in no American city outside New York would nightclubs like Café Society, militantly devoted to the social ... ”