Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration

by Thomas Brothers

Book Overview

The Beatles and Duke Ellington's Orchestra stand as the two greatest examples of collaboration in music history. Ellington's forte was not melody--his key partners were not lyricists but his fellow musicians. His strength was in arranging, in elevating the role of a featured soloist, in selecting titles: in packaging compositions. He was also very good at taking credit when the credit wasn't solely his, as in the case of Mood Indigo, though he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039324623X
• ISBN13: 9780393246230
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"