Duke Ellington's Symphonic Visions

by Luca Bragalini, David Schiff (Foreword by), Aloma Bardi (Preface by)

Overview

The first in-depth study of the symphonic compositions of the great jazz composer and bandleader

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496860156
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	12/15/2025
Series:	American Made Music Series
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About 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 He has discovered unpublished works by Duke Ellington, Chet Baker and Luciano Chailly and is author of the Italian edition of this book, Dalla Scala a Harlem: I sogni sinfonici di Duke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.

Editorial Reviews

Reading through Bragalini's discoveries we feel that a new Ellingtonian world is now within our view.

from the foreword by David Schiff