Description: The first in-depth study of the symphonic compositions of the great jazz composer and bandleader
Brief description: Luca Bragalini is professor of history and analysis of jazz at the Music Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi of Milan. Bragalini was a distinguished scholar at Reed College where he offered a series of lectures on Ellington. He has discovered unpublished works by Duke Ellington, Chet Baker, and Luciano Chailly and is author of the Italian edition of this book, Dalla Scala a Harlem: I sogni sinfonici di Duke Ellington, named Best Musicological Book of 2018 by the Jazzit Awards.
Review Quotes: Reading through Bragalini's discoveries we feel that a new Ellingtonian world is now within our view. - from the foreword by David Schiff, composer and author of The Ellington Century