“Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions” by Luca Bragalini, University Press of Mississippi.
Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions (UPM-University Press of Mississippi, 2025) is the first book entirely dedicated to Ellington’s symphonic music. The new international edition of the book, based on the Italian text published by EDT in 2018, was translated by Brent Waterhouse under the scholarly supervision of ICAMus and Aloma Bardi. The audio files accompanying the book are made accessible on the ICAMus channels.
Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions by Luca Bragalini. Foreword by David Schiff. Preface by Aloma Bardi.
University Press of Mississippi, 2025 - American Made Music Series.
Audio files complementing Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions:
- Three Black Kings - Part 1 - “King of the Nativity”
- Three Black Kings - Part 2 - “King Solomon”
- Three Black Kings - Part 3 - “Martin Luther King (Elos)”
- Celebration (World premiere recording)
Paolo Birro, piano
Bepi D’Amato, clarinet & alto saxophone
Teatro Marrucino Orchestra
SIdMA Jazz Orchestra
Bruno Tommaso, conductor
Live recording - Chieti, Italy, March 6, 2007.
THE BOOK. Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions by Luca Bragalini addresses the English-language readers in an adapted and revised edition based on the book published by EDT in Italy in 2018, Dalla Scala a Harlem: I sogni sinfonici di Duke Ellington [From La Scala to Harlem: Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions]. In the English text, based on Professor Bragalini’s original Italian text, translated by Dr. Brent Waterhouse under the scholarly supervision of ICAMus and Aloma Bardi, who worked in close association with the author, the University Press of Mississippi edition of Luca Bragalini’s book can now meet the large audience it was meant for.
THE AUTHOR. 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 He has discovered unpublished works by Duke Ellington, Chet Baker, and Luciano Chailly. The Italian edition of his monographic study on Ellington, Dalla Scala a Harlem: I sogni sinfonici di Duke Ellington was named Best Musicological Book of 2018 by the Jazzit Awards.
“Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions” by Luca Bragalini, the University Press of Mississippi website.
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