Duke (92 page)

The
Cat Woman (Cat People),
236

Catlett, Sid, 137n

Cavanaugh, Inez, 240

CBS radio, 126

Celley, Al, 321

Cézanne, Paul, 159–60

Challis, Bill, 117

Check and Double Check
(1930), 86, 104–5, 111

“Chelsea Bridge,” 184, 186, 195, 223, 272

Chevalier, Maurice, 103

The
Chicago Defender,
69, 97, 125, 147, 164, 169

childhood and youth of Ellington, 25–29

Chocolate Kiddies,
52–53

“Choo Choo (I Gotta Hurry Home)”, 54

Ciro’s, 249

Clark, Bill, 270

Clef Club Orchestra, 22

Clinkscales, Marietta, 31–32, 92–93

Clorindy: Origin of the Cakewalk,
52

“The Clothed Woman,” 264

Club Ebony, 77

Club Kentucky, 53, 61–62, 78, 242n

Cole, Nat “King,” 253, 273, 279

Coles, Honi, 199–200

Coles, Johnny, 342

Collier, James Lincoln, 185

Collier, Ron, 350

Coltrane, John, 314

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 89

Columbia Records, 266, 292, 294, 300, 302–3, 313–14, 314n, 324–25, 343, 357

Communism, 225–26, 278, 279n

Como, Perry, 267

Conaway, Sterling,
37

“Concerto for Cootie,” 114, 209–11, 265

Connie’s Inn, 48, 75

Conover, Willis, 342–43

Conroy, Frank, 339

Cook, Will Marion, 22, 51–52

Copland, Aaron, 7, 16, 76–77, 171, 224, 325–26,
326

Correll, Charles, 104

Cotton Club (Harlem): and booking disputes, 180; Calloway’s tenure at, 74, 105, 124–25; closed, 162; and composition of Ellington’s band, 83–88; and
Creole Rhapsody,
121; and
A Drum Is a Woman,
296; Ellington’s band at,
133
; and Ellington’s composing style, 111; Ellington’s early performances at, 78–83; and Ellington’s extramarital affairs, 99, 101; façade,
74
; floor shows,
80
; jubilee celebration, 279; and
Jump for Joy,
223, 227; and Madden, 73–76; and Mills’s promotional efforts, 103; and the New York jazz scene, 76–78; and radio broadcasts, 89–94, 107; and recording sessions, 172–76; reopened, 164–66; and revues, 258; and Webster, 206–7

Cotton Club (Los Angeles), 129

The
Cotton Club Show Boat
(floor show), 83

“Cotton Tail,” 6, 209, 215, 215n, 353

“The Countess.”
See
Monte, Fernanda de Castro

Courtney, Charles Sam, 320, 346

Courtney, Cress, 322

The
Cradle Will Rock,
224, 255

Creole Jazz Band, 44

“Creole Love Call,” 66–67, 70, 87–88, 108, 127, 137, 169, 253

Creole Rhapsody,
7, 120–24, 124n, 146, 148, 156, 169, 239

Crosby, Bing, 126–27, 129, 216, 358

Crosby, Bob, 179, 202

cross-section voicing, 213

Crouch, Stanley, 360

Cuthbert, Middleton F., 26

Daily Herald,
135

Daily News,
9

Daily Worker,
278

Dallas News,
142

Dance, Stanley, 10, 47–48, 182–83, 185, 225, 344, 347, 354–55, 359

Dandridge, Dorothy, 228, 229

Darrell, R. D., 67–68, 123, 279

Davis, Almena, 229

Davis, Benjamin J., Jr., 226

Davis, Kay, 249, 253, 263

Davis, Meyer, 38

Davis, Miles, 18, 267, 314, 345–46

Davis, Sammy, Jr., 315

Davis, Stuart, 76

Davis, Wild Bill, 342, 347

“Day Dream,” 191–92

“Daybreak Express,” 145, 168

De Lange, Eddie, 149

De Pauw, Dick, 139

death of Ellington, 17, 357–58

DeBakey, Michael, 357

Debussy, Claude, 32, 159, 240

Deep South Suite,
245

Delius, Frederick, 5, 123, 140, 155, 156n, 159

DeMange, George “Big Frenchy,” 76

Desmond, Paul, 289

Diamond, Leslie, 292

Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue,
112, 169–71, 239, 287–88,
289,
290, 291, 306

Dixon, Mildred, 99–100, 174, 175–76, 179, 323, 358

“Do Nothin’ till You Hear from Me,” 114, 211, 265

Dorsey, Tommy, 130, 163, 253

Down Beat:
on
African Suite,
3; on
Beggar’s Holiday,
262–63; on Bigard’s departure, 234; on Birdland performance, 275–76; on
Black, Brown and Beige,
7, 9; on Blanton, 209; on Café Society performance, 284; and Cotton Club jubilee, 279; on
Creole Rhapsody,
124; and critics’ poll, 282; on
Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue,
170–71, 291; and Hammond’s dislike for Ellington, 152, 159; on “Ko-Ko,” 209–10; on musician’s incomes, 161, 180; on “Serenade to Sweden,” 183; on swing music, 178, 252; on
A Tone Parallel to Harlem,
270; on Williams’s departure, 217–18

Drake, Alfred, 259, 261–62

A
Drum Is a Woman,
233, 294–97,
295,
299, 300, 305, 321

DuBois, W. E. B., 100, 278

Dudley, Bessie, 135, 147–48

Duke, Vernon, 258

Duke Ellington, Inc., 70, 140, 271

Duke Ellington . . . We Love You Madly
(television special), 355, 359

Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, 4

Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra, 59

Duke Ellington in Person
(M. Ellington), 360

Duke Ellington’s 70th Birthday Concert,
348

Duke Ellington’s Concert of Sacred Music,
329

The
Duke Plays Ellington,
280, 343

“The Duke Steps Out,” 120, 121

Duke’s Big 4,
353

Duke’s Serenaders,
37,
41, 42

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 22, 52

Dunbar High School, 22, 33, 41, 43

Durante, Jimmy, 92

“Dusk,” 109, 209–10

Duvivier, George, 151, 204–5

Early Jazz
(Schuller), 339–40

“East St. Louis Toodle-O,” 59, 59n, 62–65, 67, 69–70, 88, 169, 285

Eberly, Philip K., 89

Ebony,
30n, 38, 40, 98, 177, 281, 331

“Echoes of Harlem,” 162, 166, 209

“Echoes of the Jazz Age” (Fitzgerald), 32

“Echoes of the Jungle,” 7, 90, 119, 137

Eckstine, Billy, 343

The
Ed Sullivan Show,
314, 324, 331, 351

education of Ellington, 22, 31–32

Eldridge, Jean, 191

Eliot, T. S., 115

Elizabeth II, 304n

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book,
11

Ellington, Daisy Kennedy: and “Black and Tan Fantasy,” 65–66; death, 153–54, 171–72, 180; and Ellington’s childhood, 32, 34–35; and Ellington’s extramarital affairs, 101; and Ellington’s family background, 26–30; and radio broadcasts, 90

Ellington, Edna, 17–18, 38–41,
39,
48, 98–100, 176, 251, 309, 332, 358

Ellington, Edward Kennedy “Duke”: birth of, 15; childhood and youth of, 25–29; death of, 17, 357–58; education of, 22, 31–32, 34; funeral of, 16–17, 359; hypochondria of, 352; marriage of, 40; religious observance of, 278, 328; superstitions of, 132.
See also
specific topics throughout index

Ellington, James Edward (“J. E.”), 26–30,
27,
27n, 33, 35, 38, 101, 171–72

Ellington, Marie, 253

Ellington, Mercer Kennedy,
345
; on Aquacade gig, 282; and the ASCAP boycott, 221–22; and band management, 321–23, 353; and
Black, Brown and Beige,
6, 238; and the Blanton-Webster band, 209; on changes to the band, 271–72; on Cotton Club management, 133; on Ellington’s composing style, 111; and Ellington’s control issues, 17; on Ellington’s extramarital affairs, 98–99, 250–51; on Ellington’s family life, 28, 39, 171; and Ellington’s finances, 126, 173, 343–44; and Ellington’s funeral, 360; and Ellington’s illness and death, 355–59; on Ellington’s loneliness, 338; on Ellington’s music education, 34; and Ellington’s religion, 278; on Evie Ellis, 174–77; and foreign tours, 138–39; on grandmother’s death, 153; on Jones, 175n; on “Kinda Dukish,” 306; on Monte, 311; on mother’s death, 332; and
Person to Person,
305; on political issues, 226; on
Reminiscing in Tempo,
155; on “Solitude,” 149; and Strayhorn, 191, 197–98; on superstitions of Ellington, 132; and
Time
profile, 294; and Tizol, 103, 131; and Webster, 202; and Williams’s return to band, 314

Ellington, Paul Mercer (grandson), 360

Ellington, Ruth: and broadcast performances, 90; and death of Ellington, 357; on Dixon, 101; and Ellington’s childhood, 26–28, 34; on Ellington’s extramarital affairs, 250; and Ellington’s finances, 323; and Ellington’s funeral, 359; and Evie, 332; and health of Ellington, 355–56; on Monte, 312; and
Person to Person,
305; and Strayhorn, 191, 198–99; on touring, 144–45; and White House birthday celebration, 343

“Ellington Effect,” 13, 84, 132, 255

Ellington profile, 290–92, 308

Ellis, Beatrice “Evie,”
175
; and autobiography of Ellington, 354; death of, 360; and death of Edna Ellington, 332; and death of Ellington, 357–58; described, 174–75; and Ellington’s female admirers, 323; fights with Ellington, 251; influence on Ellington’s music, 183, 215; relationship with Ellington, 176–78; and White House birthday celebration, 343

Ellison, Ralph, 5, 142–43, 157, 342

The
Emperor Jones
(1933), 98

Europe, James Reese, 22

European tours, 134–41, 179, 183

Evans, Gil, 186

The
Evolution of the Negro in Picture, Song, and Story,
22

Exclusive Club, 46–47, 77

Fantastic Rhythm,
189

Far East Suite,
320, 321, 338

Faulkner, William, 267

Feather, Leonard, 182, 204, 272, 343

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 226, 278

Felton, Paul, 296

Ferguson, Otis, 158

Fiedler, Arthur, 279

Fields, Dorothy, 79

Fimberg, Hal, 228

First Sacred Concert, 328–32, 333

Fisher, Fred, 48

Fisk Jubilee Quartet, 25

Fitzgerald, Ella, 11, 192n, 210, 283, 286, 301, 303, 359

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 32, 119

Five Hot Shots, 97

“Flamingo,” 198–99

“Fleurette Africaine,” 314

flying, Ellington’s fear of, 318

Fortune,
3

Foster, Pops, 24

Foster, Stephen, 220

400 Club, 36

Francis A. and Edward K.,
337, 338

Frankenstein, Alfred, 236

Frazier, E. Franklin, 28